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The Nauru Local Government Council was a legislative body in Nauru. It was first established in 1951, when Nauru was a United Nations trust territory , as a successor to the Council of Chiefs . It continued to exist until 1992, when it was dissolved in favor of the Nauru Island Council.
From 1992 to 1999, Nauru had a local government system known as the Nauru Island Council (NIC). [86] It was a successor to the Nauru Local Government Council, established in 1951. [87] This nine-member council was designed to provide municipal services.
An elected member of the Nauru Island Council cannot simultaneously be a member of parliament. Land tenure in Nauru is unusual: all Nauruans have certain rights to all land on the island, which is owned by individuals and family groups; government and corporate entities do not own land and must enter into a lease arrangement with the landowners ...
The Council of Chiefs did not have any powers and served only to advise the Administrator, who did not have to heed their advice. [3] The Council sent a petition to the 1948–49 session of the United Nations Trusteeship Council , complaining that "the Native inhabitants still had no voice in the formulation of general administration policies ...
The Council of Chiefs has its early origin after the Nauruan Civil War and subsequent German annexation in 1888. Nauru District Officer Fritz Jung maintained an informal Council of Chiefs as a way of consulting with the Nauruan people. [1] During Nauru's time as a German protectorate, the traditional Nauruan tribal social structure was largely ...
Section three of the act gave the Nauru Legislative Council the authority to make "an Ordinance establishing a convention for the purpose of establishing a constitution for Nauru", and section four of the provided that all existing Australian legislation would cease to apply to Nauru "on the expiration of the day preceding Nauru Independence ...
The Cabinet of Nauru is the executive branch of the government of the Republic of Nauru, a small island nation in the Pacific Ocean.Article 17 (1.) of the Constitution of Nauru provides for the "executive authority of Nauru" to be vested in "a Cabinet constituted as provided by this Part" with the "general direction and control of the government of Nauru", specified in Article 17 (2.) as being ...
The Assembly met for the first time on 31 January and elected the new five-member Council of State. Seven candidates were nominated for the contest, although Victor Eoaeo pulled out as he continued to oppose Nauruan independence. [2] The Council subsequently elected Hammer DeRoburt as its chairman. [1]