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The Constitution declares the "underlying law" — that is, the separate common law of Papua New Guinea — to consist of the Constitution, "customary law" derived from the "custom" of the various peoples of Papua New Guinea, and the common law of England as it stood at the date of Papua New Guinea's independence on 16 September 1975.
A separate Constitutional Commission was established by the Constitutional Commission Act of 1993. The 2004 Act united these two bodies. In 2009 the Commission established a working committee to review the law on sorcery and related killings. [3] Eric Kwa became the Commission's chairman in 2011, [4] and held the post until 2018. [5]
PNG has ratified 6 of the core human rights treaties; the third highest number in the Pacific behind New Zealand and Australia.These include the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (), International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (), the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (), the Convention on the Rights of the ...
Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation; Charter of the United Nations; United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Because of its status as part of the British Dominions, inhabitants of the Territory of Papua were subject to the provision of the uniform nationality law. [ 40 ] Amendments to the British Nationality Act were enacted in 1918, 1922, 1933 and 1943 changing derivative nationality by descent and modifying slightly provisions for women to lose ...
[38] [39] The constitution, in turn, is underpinned by various organic acts, conventions, and the underlying common and customary law. [40] This body of law altogether gives Papua New Guinea a parliamentary system of government under a constitutional monarchy, wherein the role of the monarch and governor-general is both legal and practical, but ...
All other government ministers – who form the National Executive Council and act as the country's cabinet – are appointed by the governor-general on the advice of the prime minister. Each government minister must be a member of parliament and section 141 of the constitution provides for the executive to be responsible to the legislature as ...
All executive power in the government is vested in the National Executive Council, which comprises all Ministers of the Crown. Unlike Australia, whose has a two-tier level of government between the Cabinet for political decision and the Federal Executive Council for purely formal decisions, the NEC is patterned along the precedent of the former as it makes policy decisions.