Constitution St-Kitts-Nevis - ICRC

1983 Saint Kitts and Nevis Constitution
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52(5) to (9) Members of the Administration
54. Allocation of portfolios
55. Absence or illness of Premier
57. Governor-General to be kept informed
60. Oaths
61. Permanent Secretaries
62. Secretary of Administration
PART 3
Provisions applies by section 108(2)
CHAPTER VI
FINANCE
70. Withdrawals from consolidated Fund or other public funds.
71. Authorisation of expenditure from Consolidated Fund by appropriation law.
72. Authorisation of expenditure in advance of appropriation.
73. Warrants for unforeseen expenditure
75. Public debt
76(2) to (7) Audit of public accounts etc
PART 4
Interpretation
PART 1
Provisions applied by section 104(1)
CHAPTER IV
THE LEGISLATURE
PART 1
Composition of the Legislature
Qualifications for elected and nominated members.
27. Subject to section 28, a person shall be qualified to be elected or appointed as a member of the
Assembly if, and shall not be so qualified unless, he is a citizen of the age of twenty-one years or
upwards and he or one of his parents was born in Saint Christopher and Nevis and he is domiciled
there at the date of his nomination for election or his appointment, as the case may be.
Disqualifications for elected and nominated members.
28.--(1) A person shall not be qualified to be elected or appointed as a member if he-
(a) is, by virtue of his own act, under any acknowledgment of allegiance, obedience or adherence to
a foreign power or state;
(b) is a minister of religion;
(c) is an undischarged bankrupt, having been adjudged or otherwise declared bankrupt under any
law;
(d) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law; or
(e) is under sentence of death imposed on him by a court of law in any part of the Commonwealth or
is serving a sentence of imprisonment (by whatever name called) exceeding twelve months imposed
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