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Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Act 2019

ANTI-CORRUPTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

(NO. 2 OF 2019)

ANTI-CORRUPTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

(NO. 2 OF 2019)

PASSED by the National Parliament this tenth day of September 2019.

(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)

David Kusilifu
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty’s name and on Her Majesty’s behalf this seventeenth day of September 2019.

The Rt. Rev. David Vunagi
Governor-General

Date of Commencement: see section 2

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ANTI-CORRUPTION ACT 2018.

ENACTED BY THE NATIONAL PARLIAMENT OF SOLOMON ISLANDS.

ANTI-CORRUPTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Anti-Corruption Act 2018 amended
4. Amendment of section 11
   

ANTI-CORRUPTION (AMENDMENT) ACT 2019

1. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Act 2019.

2. Commencement

This Act commences on the day appointed by the Minister by Gazette notice.

3. Anti-Corruption Act 2018 amended

This Act amends the Anti-Corruption Act 2018 (the “principal Act”).

4. Amendment of section 11

Section 11(6) of the principal Act is repealed and replaced with the following:

“(6) In addition, the nominating committee may nominate a person for appointment or re-appointment as chairperson of the Commission if the person is at the time of nomination:

(a) qualified for appointment as a judge of the High Court of Solomon Islands; or

(b) a retired judge of the High Court of Solomon Islands; or

(c) eligible for appointment as a judge of the High Court of Solomon Islands but is otherwise over the retirement age for judges of the High Court of Solomon Islands.”