Kiribati Constitution

Professional constitutional overview

Textual architecture, allocation of power and research posture

Constitutional architecture

The stored constitutional corpus for Kiribati brings the recorded instruments and their eligible provision metadata into one navigable research record.

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64 provisions

Kiribati's Constitution of 1979 with Amendments through 2018

Primary Constitution

Allocation of public power

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Legislative authority

Provisions concerning representative institutions, law-making authority and legislative procedure.

art 13

Executive government

Provisions concerning executive office, administration and the exercise of public authority.

art 40 · art 41 · art 43 · art 44

Public finance

Provisions concerning public money, revenue, expenditure and financial accountability.

art 3

Territorial government

Provisions concerning the constitutional relationship between national and territorial government.

art 49

Constitutional change

Provisions governing amendment, alteration, referendum or formal constitutional review.

art 1 · art 2 · art 3 · art 4

Rights and limitations on power

The rows below are selected from stored headings that signal rights, freedoms, equality or related limits. Open eligible provisions for the stored source wording.

3. Fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual: Kiribati's Constitution of 1979 with Amendments through 2018
4. Protection of right to life: Kiribati's Constitution of 1979 with Amendments through 2018
5. Protection of right to personal liberty: Kiribati's Constitution of 1979 with Amendments through 2018
11. Protection of freedom of conscience: Kiribati's Constitution of 1979 with Amendments through 2018
12. Protection of freedom of expression: Kiribati's Constitution of 1979 with Amendments through 2018

Alteration and constitutional change

These source-indexed provisions contain headings associated with amendment, alteration, referendum, review or repeal.

art 11. Declaration of Republic
art 22. Constitution is supreme law
art 33. Fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual
art 44. Protection of right to life
art 55. Protection of right to personal liberty
art 66. Protection from slavery and forced labour

Research posture and source status

Current In Force

1 recorded instruments · English

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