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[86] [87] The 1983 Nationality Law remained in place until it was repealed by the new nationality provisions contained in the 2019 Civil Code of Guinea. [8] [7] On 4 July 2019, a new Civil Code (Loi L/2019/0035/AN) replaced the previous nationality legislation in Articles 50 to 179, simplifying and equalizing the means to acquire nationality. [7]
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 ...
Notes 3] At independence, Papua New Guinea conferred nationality upon any person born in the territory who had two grandparents born in Papua New Guinea, or who were members of an indigenous society of Papua New Guinea but born in Irian Jaya, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands or the Torres Strait Islands.
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 ...
Papua New Guinea has a unicameral National Parliament, previously known as the House of Assembly. It has 111 seats, with 89 elected from single-member "Open" electorates and 22 from province-level "Provincial" electorates. Members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms. The most recent election was held in June to July of 2022.
Guinea's transitional authorities have presented a draft of a new constitution which will reduce and set presidential term limits, and potentially allow current military leader Mamady Doumbouya to ...
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The referendum question presented a choice between greater autonomy within Papua New Guinea and full independence; voters voted overwhelmingly (98.31%) for independence. The referendum was a result of a 2001 agreement between the government of Papua New Guinea and the Autonomous Bougainville Government that ended a civil war fought from 1988 to ...