Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment
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1 87A. Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments system.
There shall be a system of Provincial Governments and Local-level
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Governments for Papua New Guinea in accordance with this Part.
1 87B. Grant of Provincial Government and Local-level Government.
An Organic Law shall provide for, or make provision in respect of, the form and the manner of establishment of the Provincial Governments and the Local-level Governments.
1 87C. Constitution, functions, etc., of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments.
(4) An Organic Law shall make provision for and in respect of—
and Local-level Governments, and may make other financial provisions for Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments, to an extent reasonably adequate for the performance of their functions.
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(7) A question of the adequacy of provision made under Subsection (3), (4),
1 87D. Inconsistency and justiciability of provincial laws and local-level laws.
1 87E. Suspension of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments.
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1 87F . Re-establishment of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments.
(1) Subject to Subsections (2) and (3), if a Provincial Government or a Local-level Government is suspended, arrangements shall be made to re-establish it within nine months from the effective date of suspension.
(2) Subject to Subsections (3) and (4), where—
control ), the period of nine months referred to in Subsection (1) runs from the end of the meeting (or if there are more such extensions than one the last meeting) of the Parliament at which the declaration is so extended.
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Provincial Governments and Local-level governments ) the period of suspension, unless earlier terminated, ends at the end of nine months after the end of the war or national emergency concerned.
1 87G. Gradations of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments.
Nothing in any law is inconsistent with this Part so far as it provides for the full status, powers or functions of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments to be acquired by a Provincial Government and a Local-level Government in stages, or prov ides for a gradation of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments or provides for Interim Provincial Governments.
1 87H. National Economic and Fiscal Commission.
1 87I. Local and village governments.
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1 87J. Reports on Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments.
The Minister responsible for provincial government and local-level government matters shall, at least once in each period of 12 months, at such times as are fixed—
accordance with, the advice of the National Executive Council, present to the Head of State, for presentation to the Parliament, a report on the working of the system of Provincial Governments and Local-level Governments.
Division 1.—Introductory.
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