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Leadership Code (Amendment) Act 1999

REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

LEADERSHIP CODE (AMENDMENT) ACT
NO. 7 of 1999

Arrangement of Sections

1. Repeal of section 32 and substitution of new section
   
2. Commencement.
   

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REPUBLIC OF VANUATU

Commencement 16/08/00

LEADERSHIP CODE (AMENDMENT) ACT
NO. 7 of 1999

An Act to amend the Leadership Code Act No. 2 of 1998 (the “Principal Act”).

BE IT ENACTED by the President and Parliament as follows:

REPEAL OF SECTION 32 AND SUBSTITUTION OF NEW SECTION

1. Section 32 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:
   

“ANNUAL RETURNS CONFIDENTIAL EXCEPT FOR INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS

32. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Clerk must keep confidential all annual returns given to the Clerk by leaders.

(2) The Clerk must not make a part of an annual return, or the whole of an annual return, available to another person unless the Clerk is satisfied that the part or annual return is necessary for:

(a) an investigation under Part 5 of this Act, or an investigation authorised by or under any other Act or law; or

(b) a prosecution under Part 5 of this Act, or a prosecution authorised by or under any other Act or law.

(3) The Clerk must publish in the Gazette on or before 14 March in each year a list of the leaders who have given or failed to give the Clerk an annual return. The list must set out the leader’s name and the position the leader holds.

(4) This section applies to an annual return required to be given to the Clerk on or after the day on which this section commences.”.

COMMENCEMENT

2. This Act commences on the day on which it is published in the Gazette.

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