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Current position-30 April 2013
Current position-30 April 2013
If the President advises the Speaker to dissolve Parliament, the Constitution says that advice must be referred to Parliament.
The Supreme Court has clarified what "referral to Parliament" actually requires.
The Court has said that "referral" is not just a matter of reading out the advice in the House. It also requires that members are given an opportunity to consider and debate the advice.
So far, since the President's advice was read out to the House on 18 April, there has not been any opportunity for debate. That means the advice has not yet been referred.
Under the Constitution, the Speaker can only dissolve the House 7 days after the advice has been referred.
Until members are given the opportunity to debate the advice, the 7 days does not start to run. It is not yet known when the House will be dissolved or when an election can lawfully be held.
If there had been a quorum today (30 April 2013) and the debate had begun, the Speaker would have been required to dissolve Parliament 7 days later, next Tuesday 7 May and the election could have been held on 8 June.
The Constitution is the supreme law of Nauru adopted in 1968 by the people through the Constitutional Convention. It creates the three branches of government: the executive (Cabinet), the legislature (Parliament) and the judiciary (the Supreme Court) and each of those three branches is bound to act in accordance with the Constitution.
Article 54 of the Constitution gives the Supreme Court exclusive jurisdiction to 'determine any question arising under or involving the interpretation or effect of [the] Constitution.' The Court was exercising this jurisdiction when it decided the two recent cases concerning the correct interpretation of Article 41.