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The Commonwealth of Dominica Constitution Order Index o/Titles and Chapters in this Volume 1 VOL. 1 TITLE Chapter Commonwealth of Dominica Constitution Order ................................................ 1:01 Commonwealth of Dominica Citizenship Act ..................................................... 1: 10 Territorial Sea Act ............................................................................................... 1: II President's Emoluments and Conditions of Office Act ....................................... I: 12 Attorney General (Office of Minister) (Designation) Act ................................... 1: 13 Director of Public Prosecutions (prescribed Age) Act ........................................ I: 15 Financial Year Act ............................................................................................... 1:20 THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA CONSTITUTION ORDER CHAPTER 1:01 8.1.1978 No. 1027 (U.K.) Amendedby 8.1.1978 No. 1521 (U.K.) (Amendments to the Constitution (contained in Schedule I to this Order) are not included) Current Authorised Pages Pages Authorised (inclusive) byL.R.O. 1-141 1!1991 L.R.O.1tJ991 Index of Subsidiary Legislation Page Standing Orders of the House of Assembly (35/1986) 13 Boundaries Commission Order (5/1989) 63 Public SelVice Commission Regulations (31/1975) 76 Police SelVice Commission Regulations (49/1976) 100 Note Acts passed to prescribe matters in pursuance of particular provisions of the Consti­ tution­ (a) Act No.2 of 1975 (see section 110(1) of the 1967 Coostitution­ section 121(1) of the 1978 Coostitution). (b) Act No. 15 of 1978 (see section 104 of the 1967 Constitution ­ section 71(4) of the 1978 Coostitution). (e) AetNa. 21 of 1984 (see section 88(6) of the 1978 Coostitution). .............. ~ .... ~ CHAPTER 1:01 THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA CONSTITUTION ORDER ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS SECTION 1. Citation and commencement. 2. Revocations. 3. Establishment of Constitution. SCHEDULE. L.R.O.1I199J ...........t"..... U' ... CHAPTER 1:01 THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA CONSTITUTION ORDER 1978 No. 1027 AN ORDER made under section 5(4) of the West Indies Act 1967 (U.K.). 1956c.4 (U.K.) . to establish the Constitution of Dominica. • [1978 No. 1521 (U.K.)]. ··Commence­ [3rd November 1978] ment. WHEREAS the status ofassociation ofDominica with the United Kingdom is to terminate on 3rd November 1978 and it is necessary to establish a new constitution for Dominica as a sovereign democratic republic within the Commonwealth styled the Commonwealth of Dominica: AND WHEREAS the Associated State of Dominica has. by a resolution passed in the House of Assembly thereof on 12th July 1978. requested and consented to the making of this Order for that purpose: 1967 c.4(U.K.). Now, THEREFORE, Her Majesty. by virtue and in exercise ofthe powers vested in Herin that behalf by section 5(4) of the West Indies Act 1967. is pleased. by and with the advice of Her Privy Council. to order. and it is hereby ordered. as follows: CitaJionand 1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Commonwealth of commencement Dominica Constitution Order 1978. (2) This Order shall come into operation on 3rd November 1978: Provided that paragraph 3(8) of Schedule 2 shall come into operation forthwith. RevocaJions. 2. The Dominica Constitution Order 1976. the Dominica Consti­ S.I.1967No.226 tution (Amendment) Order 1971 and the Constitution (Ministerial ~.~~71 No.714 Provisions) (Amendment) Act. 1975. which made provision for the (U.K.). constitution of the Associated State of Dominica. are revoked. 320fl975. • Amendments to Schedule 1 (the Constitution) are not included. "Note the proviso to section 1(2). l,.UflScuuuun vruer 3. The Constitution ofthe Commonwealth ofDominica set out in Establishmentof Schedule I to this Order shall come into effect in Dominica at the Constitution. commencement of this Order subject to the transitional provisions set out in Schedule 2 to this Order. SCHEDULE 1 TO THE ORDER THE CONSTITUTION OF Section 3. THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINlCA Note The Constitution (originally set outinthe Schedule to this Order - Chap. 1 :01), being the basic and supreme law ofDominica, has been published at the beginning ofthis Revised Edition immediately preced­ ing but outside the framework of the Chapter series in which the ordinary laws of the State (classified according to subject matter) are published. Subsidiary Legislation made under the Constitution are set out immediately after Schedule 2 to this Order. SCHEDULE 2 TO THE ORDER Section 3. TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS PARAGRAPH 1. Election of first President, etc. 2. Existing laws. 3. Parliament. 4. Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries. 5. Office of Attorney General. 6. Existing public officers. 7. Oaths. L.R.O.1I199J v ..... un,nuuuun vruer PARAGRAPH 8. Supreme Coun Order. 9. Appeals Order. 10. Judicial Committee. 11. Protection from inhuman treatment. 12. Protection from deprivation of propeny. 13. Commonwealth citizen. 14. Interpretation. Election of first 1. (1) A President shall be elected under section 19 of the Consti­ President,etc. tution as soon as is practicable after the commencement ofthis Consti­ tution and in any case not later than ninety days from such commence­ ment; and accordingly consultations for the purposes of subsection (1) of that section may take place at any time between the making of this Order and such commencement between the persons respectively holding office under the former Constitution as Premier and as Leader of the Opposition. (2) Until such time as a person has assumed office as President, having been elected as such in accordance with section 19 of the Constitution, the person who immediately before the commencement ofthe Constitution held office as Governor of Dominica (or, if there is no such person, the person who was then acting as Governor) shall discharge the functions of the office ofPresident and the provisions of section 28 ofthe Constitution shall apply in relation to him as ifhe were the holder of the office of President. Existing laws. 2. (1) The existing laws shall, as from the commencement of the Constitution, be construed with such modifications, adaptations, quali­ fications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring them into confor­ mity with the Constitution and the Supreme Coun Order. (2) Where any matter that falls to be prescribed or otherwise provided for under the Constitution by Parliament or by any other authority orperson is prescribed orprovided for by orunder an existing law (including any amendment to any such law made under this section), that prescription or provision shall, as from the commence­ ment ofthe Constitution, have effect (with such modifications, adapta­ tions, qualifications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring it into conformity with the Constitution and the Supreme Coun Order) as ifit had been made under the Constitution by Parliament or, as the case may require, by the other authority or person. ~---.-. -. -- (3) The President may by Order made at any time before 3 November 1979 make such alterations to any existing law as may appear to him to be necessary or expedient for bringing that law into conformity with the provisions of the Constitution and the Supreme Court Order or otherwise for giving effect or enabling to be given to those provisions. (4) The provisions of this paragraph shall be without prejudice to any powers conferred by the Constitution or by any other law upon any person or authority to make provision for any matter, including the alteration of any existing law. (5) For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression "existing law" means any Act, Ordinance, law, rule, regulation, order or other instrument made in pursuance of or continued in force by or under the former Constitution and having effect as part of the law of Dominica or of any part thereof immediately before the commencement of the Constitution. 3. (1) Until other constituencies are established for Dominica by Parliament Order in pursuance of section 57 of the Constitution and the Order has \~;·II~~~f.' come into effect there shall, for the purposes of the election of Repre­ sentatives, be twenty-one constituencies having the same boundaries as the constituencies into which Dominica is divided immediately before the commencement of the Constitution for the purpose of the election of elected members of the House under the former Constitu­ tion and those constituencies shall be deemed to have been established under that sectio]l; (2) Where any matter that falls to be prescribed or otherwise provided under the Constitution by Parliament or by any other author­ ity or person is prescribed or provided for by or under any existing law (including any amendment to any such law made under this section), that prescription or provision shall, as from the commencement of the Constitution, have effect (with such modifications, adaptations, quali­ fications and exceptions as may be necessary to bring it into conformity with the Constitution and the Supreme Court Order) as if it had been made under the Constitution by Parliament or, as the case may require, by the other authority or person. (3) The persons who, immediately before the commencement of the Constitution, are nominated Members of the House under the former Constitution shall vacate their seats in the House at the com­ mencement of the Constitution but shall be eligible for appointment as L.R.o.1!l99J ----.-­ ---- Senators in pursuance of the provisions of section 34 of the Constitu­ tion. (4) The persons who, iniihediately before the commencement of the Constitution,
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