SOLOMON ISLANDS

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT (AMENDMENT) act 2014

(NO. 12 OF 2014)

PASSED by the National Parliament this nineteenth day of August 2014.
(This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true copy of the Bill)

Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this twenty second day of September 2014.

Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui
Governor-General

Date of Commencement: see section 1

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 9 OF THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1997; TO PERMIT PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS TO BE HELD ON A DATE OTHER THAN ON THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PREVIOUS ORDINARY ELECTION.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

proVINCIAL GOVERNMENT (amendment) act 2014

1. This Act may be cited as the Provincial Government (Amendment) Act 2014, and shall come into force on the date that it is published in the Gazette. 

2. Section 9 of the principal Act is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following - 

 "(1) Subject to subsection (2) an ordinary election of members of a Provincial Assembly shall –

(a) be held on the fourth anniversary of the date of the office of the previous election of members (whether it was an ordinary election or an election held under section 10(4)); or 

(b) be held on any other date that the Minister may appoint by Order published in the Gazette if the Minister -

(i) is satisfied that such action is necessary and in the public interest;

(ii) has consulted with the Premier of the relevant province; and

(iii) the date of the election is not more than 60 days before or after the date that the election would otherwise be held under paragraph (a) of this subsection."