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Statute law is very largely adopted from overseas jurisdictions. For example, the Criminal Code is adopted from Queensland; the Rules of Court are those of New South Wales; the Matrimonial Causes Act is the extremely old English statute of 1857 which had been in force in the Australian States before the federal Divorce Act, 1964; the Companies Act ch 146 was substantially the English Companies ...
The Papua and New Guinea Act 1949 was an Act passed by the Parliament of Australia. It replaced the Papua Act 1905 and the New Guinea Act 1920, and changed the status of the territories of Papua and New Guinea by merging their administrations to form Papua and New Guinea. [1]
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.
The Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute [1] (PacLII) collects and publishes legal materials from 20 Pacific Islands Countries on its website www.paclii.org.These countries are American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu ...
I. Statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Articles of Agreement of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage
The Ministry of Justice of Papua New Guinea and Department of Justice & Attorney General acts as the principal advisor to the government on all legal matters and is responsible for all civil litigation matters by and against the state. The Minister of Justice (who serves simultaneously as the Attorney General if s/he is a qualified lawyer ...
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The independence of the Bench was tested in 1979 during the Rooney Affair (see Law of Papua New Guinea), whose outcome was the resignation of Sir William Prentice, the second (and expatriate) Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea together with three other expatriate judges. Sir Buri Kidu then became the first native-born Chief Justice (1980–1993).