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Constitutional Commission (No.2) (Amendment) Act 1994

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Constitutional Commission (No.2) (Amendment) Act 1994

No. 27 of 1994
Certified on: 10.11.94

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

1. Repeal and replacement of Section 2.
2. Conditions of Appointments (Amendment of Section 3).

AN ACT

entitled

Constitutional Commission (No.2) (Amendment) Act 1994,

Being an Act to amend the Constitutional Commission (No.2) Act 1993. Act 1993.

MADE by the National Parliament.

1. REPEAL AND REPLACEMENT OF SECTION 2.

Section 2 of the Principal Act is repealed and replaced with the following:-

"2. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE COMMISSION.
(1) A Commission is hereby established.
(2) The Commission shall consist of eighteen members as follows -

• (a) nine Members of Parliament; and
• (b) one member nominated by the Melanesian Council of Churches; and
• (c) one member nominated by the National Council of Women; and
• (d) one member nominated by the Papua New Guinea Trade Union Congress; and
• (e) two members nominated by the Premiers Council; and
• (f) three prominent persons nominated by the Prime Minister in consultation with the Chairman; and
• (g) one member nominated by the Papua New Guinea Urban Authority Association.

(3) The members referred to in -

• (a) Subsection (2)(a) shall be appointed by the Prime Minister in consultation with the Chairman; and
• (b) Subsections (2)(b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g) shall -
  • (i) be citizens; and
  • (ii) be appointed by the Head of State, acting on the advice of the National Executive Council.

(4) The person who held the position of the Chairman of the Bi-partisan Committee shall be the Chairman of the Commission.
(5) The Prime Minister, in consultation with the Chairman, shall appoint a member referred to in Subsection (2)(a) to be the Deputy Chairman of the Commission."

2. CONDITIONS OF APPOINTMENTS (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 3).

Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended in -

(a) Paragraph (a), by repealing the words "Section 2(1)(a)" and replacing them with the following -

• "Section 2(2)(a)"; and

(b) Paragraph (a), by repealing the words "Section 216(a)" and replacing them with the following -

• "Section 216A"; and

(c) Paragraph (b), by repealing the words "Section 2(1)" and replacing them with the following -

• "Section 2(2)".
  

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Constitutional Commission (No.2) (Amendment) Act 1994 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.

I hereby certify that the Constitutional Commission (No.2) (Amendment) Act 1994 was made by the National Parliament on 8 September 1994.

Speaker of the National Parliament.