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🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaConstitution

Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment

10

Jurisdiction
Papua New Guinea
Provision
10
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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in force

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10. Construction of written laws. All written laws (other than this Constitution) shall be read and construed subject to— PNG National Legislation and (c) in the case of adopted laws or subordinate legislative enactments —the Organic Laws and the laws by or under which they were enacted or made, and so as not to exceed the authority to make them properly given, to the intent that where any such law would, but for this section, have been in excess of the authority so given it shall nevertheless be a valid law to the extent to which it is not in exc ess of that authority. D ivision 2.— Constitutional Laws . Subdivision A.—Supreme Law.

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

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