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🇵🇬 Papua New GuineaConstitution

Constitution as amended by the 2025 Christian Country amendment

266

Jurisdiction
Papua New Guinea
Provision
266
Source language
English
Recorded status
in force
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Recorded status
in force

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266. Provisional laws. (1) If before Independence Day the Constituent Assembly has made an This is an official copy of the Legislation of PNG instrument expressed to be a Provisional Organic Law, the instrument takes effect, on Independence Day, as if it were an Organic Law made and coming into effect on that day. (2) If before Independence Day the Constituent Assembly has made an instrument expressed to be a Provisional Act of the Parliament made for the purpose of bringing any provision of this Constitution into effective operation on Independence Day, the instrum ent takes effect, on Independence Day, as if it were an Act of the Parliament made and coming into effect on that day.

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

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