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Bougainville Gazette No.5/2019

NOTICE UNDER SECTION 55 OF THE ORGANIC LAW ON PEACE-BUILDING IN BOUGAINVILLE – AUTONOMOUS BOUGAINVILLE GOVERNMENT AND BOUGAINVILLE REFERENDUM 2002 – DETAILED CRITERIA FOR NON-RESIDENT BOUGAINVILLEAN TO BE ENTITLED TO VOTE AT BOUGAINVILLE REFERENDUM.

The National Government and the Bougainville Government have consulted and agreed in writing that the links with Bougainville that a person (referred to in the Bougainville Peace Agreement as a “non-resident Bougainvillean”) must have in order to be entitled to vote at the Bougainville Referendum are as follows:

(a) the person must -

  1. be a member (whether by birth or by adoption according to custom by the clan lineage) of a Bougainvillean clan lineage (matrilineal or patrilineal) owning customary land in Bougainville; or
  2. be married (whether by law or custom) to a person to whom subparagraph (i) applies; or
  3. be a child, one whose parents is a person to whom subparagraph (i) applies; and

(b) the person must –

  1. have a right to vote under Section 50 of the Constitution of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea; and
  2. comply with the requirements of Schedule 1 Part VII of the Organic Law on Peace-Building in Bougainville-Autonomous Bougainville Government and Bougainville Referendum 2002 for enrolment for a voting district, (that is, the person must meet the same criteria that a person residing in Bougainville must meet under Section Sch.1.23(1)(a) and (c) of the Organic Law on Peace-Building in Bougainville-Autonomous Bougainville Government and Bougainville Referendum 2002). 

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