pngInLaw provides the only current and comprehensive source of consolidated legislation in PNG, including Acts and Regulations with point in time amendments.

pngInLaw’s publications include:

National Legislation (current, historical and repealed)

• The “current legislation” infobase has all Acts and Regulations currently in force. The “historical legislation” infobase has all Acts and Regulations currently in force with the added feature that the previous version of sections that have been amended are retained in the database next to the current version (although in hidden and strikethrough text). The “repealed legislation” infobase has a selection of recently repealed legislation

Legislation Indexes (National and Provincial)

• This infobase provides information on the status of current legislation of Papua New Guinea (PNG): for example Principal Acts and amending Acts, as well as commencement dates

National Court judgments

• Judgments of the National Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) (from 1975 to date)

Supreme Court judgments

• Judgments of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (PNG) (from 1975 to date)

Pre-Independence judgments

• Selected judgments of the superior courts (including the Full Court of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea and the High Court of Australia) from 1931 to 1975

Citators

• This infobase contains constitutional, legislation and judgments’ citators based on pre- and post-Independence judgments

Aids to Interpreting the Constitution

• Section 24 of the Constitution provides that the Supreme Court may look at various extrinsic material (travaux preparatoires) in interpreting the Constitution. This material is now contained in this infobase. Included are:

• Fourth Draft of Constitution
• CPC Report
• Constituent Assembly Debates
• House of Assembly Debates
• Tordoff and Watts Report
• Government Proposals