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Constitution Amendment (No 15) Act 1993

COOK ISLANDS

CONSTITUTION AMENDMENT (NO. 15) ACT 1993

ANALYSIS

Title

1. Short Title

2. Duration of office of members of Cabinet

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1993, No. 10

An Act to amend the Constitution

(30 November 1993

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of the Cook Islands in Session assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:

1. Short Title - This Act may be cited as the Constitution Amendment (No. 15) Act 1993 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Constitution of the Cook Islands as set out in the Second Schedule to the Cook Islands Constitution Amendment Act 1965 of the Parliament of New Zealand as amended by Acts of the Legislative Assembly and Parliament of the Cook Islands (hereinafter referred to as "the Constitution").

2. Duration of office of members of Cabinet - Article 14 of the Constitution is amended by-

(a) Repealing subclause (1) and substituting the following new subclause-

"(1) The appointment of the Prime Minister who is in office immediately before the date of the holding of a general election of Parliament may be terminated by the Queen's Representative after the date of that election and before the date of the commencement of the first session of Parliament following that election if it appears to the Queen's Representative, acting in his discretion, that the Prime Minister is unlikely to command the confidence of a majority of the members of Parliament."

(b) Repealing subclause (2).

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