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🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaConstitution

Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment

5

Jurisdiction
Papua New Guinea
Provision
5
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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Recorded status
in force

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5. Papua New Guinean ways. We declare our fifth goal to be to achieve development primarily through the use of Papua New Guinean forms of social, political and economic organization. WE ACCORDINGLY CALL FOR— Basic Rights. WE HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE that, subject to any restrictions imposed by law on non-citizens, all persons in our country are entitled to the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, that is to say, the right, whatever their race, tribe, places of origi n, political opinion, colour, creed or sex, but subject to respect for the rights and freedoms of others and for the legitimate public interest, to each of the following:— unjust deprivation of property, and have accordingly included in this Constitution provisions designed to afford protection to those rights and freedoms, subject to such limitations on that protection as are contained in those provisions, being limitations primarily designed to ensure th at the enjoyment of the acknowledged rights and freedoms by an individual does not prejudice the rights and freedoms of others or the legitimate public interest. Basic Social Obligations. WE HEREBY DECLARE that all persons in our country have the following basic obligations to themselves and their descendants, to each other, and to the Nation:— National Goals and Directive Principles; and (i) in the case of the children, to respect their parents. IN ADDITION, WE HEREBY DECLARE that all citizens have an obligation to themselves and their descendants, to each other and to the Nation to use profits from economic activities in the advancement of our country and our people, and that the law may impose a similar obligation on non-citizens carrying on economic activities in or from our country. Division 1.—The Nation.

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Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment · faolex.fao.org · Retrieved 18 August 2026.

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