Legal Framework
From The Report: Papua New Guinea 2015
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This chapter examines the legislation in Papua New Guinea that affects enterprises and investors. It focuses on the laws that encourage investment, on the creation of a new environment protection authority and on the rules governing the registration of business names.

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Overview

Foreign companies take note of PNG’s legal structure
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Governments & Their Powers There are three levels of government in Papua New Guinea, the national, provincial and local-level governments. The Constitution and the Organic Law on Provincial Government and Local Level Government (Organic Law) regulate the law-making powers of the national, provincial and local-level governments. Each level has its own distinct law-making powers. The law-making powers of the national Parliament are covered in section 41 of the Organic Law; the law-making powers…

Analysis

PNG regulators guard the environment
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The establishment of the Conservation and Environment Protection Authority (CEPA) will see significant changes in the ways applicants for, and holders of, environment permits interface with the environmental regulator. CEPA was established under the Conservation and Environment Protection Act 2014 (CEPA Act) and takes over the role formerly undertaken by the Department of Environment and Conservation as PNG’s environmental regulator. The head of the authority is the managing director who is broadly…

Analysis

Two business name acts on the books in PNG
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In May 2014 the National Parliament enacted the Business Names Act 2014 (New Act). At the time the New Act came into force, PNG already had business names legislation – the Business Names Act (Chapter 145) (Old Act) in force. The New Act does not repeal or amend the Old Act so that, technically at least, PNG now has two business names acts in similar (but not identical) terms. The Legislative Counsel intended the New Act to repeal the Old Act, however, the provisions repealing the Old Act were…