PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Constitutional (Amendment) (Number of Ministers) Law 2010.

No.  of 2010.

Certified on : 24/ 06/ 10

Constitutional (Amendment) (Number of Ministers) Law 2010.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.

Other Ministers (Amendment of Section 144).
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Constitutional (Amendment) (Number of Ministers) Law 2010,

Being a Law to amend the Constitution,

MADE by the National Parliament.

OTHER MINISTERS (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 144).

Section 144 of the Constitution is amended in Subsection (1) by repealing the words "more than one quarter of the number of members of the Parliament", and substituting the following:–

"not exceeding 32".
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I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Constitutional Amendment (Number of Ministers) Law 2010 which has been made by the National Parliament.

Clerk of the National Parliament.

Constitution.

CERTIFICATE UNDER SECTION 14.

I, JEFFERY NAPE, Speaker of the National Parliament, hereby certify that the requirements of Section 14(1), (2) and (3) of the Constitution were complied with in respect of the Constitutional Amendment (Number of Ministers) Law 2010 –

(a) the first vote was taken on 9 May 2010 when the number of seats in the National Parliament were 109 and those voting for the proposal were 75 and 12 voted against the proposal; and

(b) the second vote was taken on 19 May 2010 when the number of seats in the National Parliament were and those voting for the proposal were 77 and 10 voted against the proposal.

Speaker of the National Parliament.