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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.
In 1997, the government approved in principle the establishment of a human rights commission for PNG with the minimum standards set by the Paris Principles. [6] This commitment was reaffirmed in 2007 with the presentation of the 2007 Final Option Paper on the establishment of the PNG human rights commission; [6] and in 2008 a draft organic law on the establishment of a human rights commission ...
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]
[37] [38] The constitution, in turn, is underpinned by various organic acts, conventions, and the underlying common and customary law. [39] 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 ...
Papua New Guinea's judiciary is independent of the government. It protects constitutional rights and interprets the laws. There are several levels, culminating in the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea. There is a Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, not separately constituted but an appellate Full Court of the National Court.
Papua New Guinean nationality law is regulated by the 1975 Constitution of Papua New Guinea, as amended; the Citizenship Act 1975, and its revisions; and international agreements entered into by the Papua New Guinean government. [1] These laws determine who is, or is eligible to be, a national of Papua New Guinea.
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 the representative of the people of Papua New Guinea. [6] Papua New Guinea has a fractious political culture, and no party in the history of parliament has yet won a majority. [4]
PNG had two notable pieces of legislation concerning capital punishment. The Criminal Code Act 1974 and the Constitution of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea (Constitution) were at the front of the law. Imposing capital punishment for murder in PNG was prescribed in section 299(2) of the Criminal Code Act 1974 and was validated by the ...