The Kiribati Independence Order 1979
UK Statutory Instrument 1979 No. 719 — creates 2 criminal offences.
- Made
- 26 June 1979
- In force from
- 12 July 1979
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Miscellaneous
- Made under
- Her by sections 2 and 6 of the Kiribati Act 1979
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
This Order provides for the Constitution of the Gilbert Islands as an independent Republic under the name Kiribati, with effect from 12th July 1979. The Constitution provides for an elected legislature, an elected president and a Cabinet responsible to the legislature, and an independent judiciary and public service. It also makes provision for the protection of the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, for citizenship, for finance, and contains a Chapter dealing with Banaba and the Banabans.
Offences created by this instrument
- Protection of right to personal liberty paragraph 5(3) of Schedule THE SCHEDULE TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Strict liability
- Penalty for sitting or voting whilst unqualified paragraph 61(1) of Schedule THE SCHEDULE TO THE ORDER · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind
What Parliament said about it
Hansard was searched for this instrument by name and returned nothing. That is the ordinary outcome: an instrument laid under the negative procedure is usually never debated, and becomes law without a word said about it in either House.
How Parliament handled it
Parliament's Statutory Instruments service records procedure from May 2017 onwards, and this instrument predates it. That is a limit of the source, not a statement that nothing happened.
Check the source
- This instrument on legislation.gov.uk The authoritative text, including amendments made since
- Other instruments from 1979