Tonga 1875 (rev. 2013), Constitute PDF generated 27 April 2022

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 5

Where this source is used

• Clauses 59 and 60 of Tonga's amended Constitution provide for an Assembly composed of Cabinet members, seventeen people's representatives, and nine nobles' representatives.

  • supports · clauses 59–60, composition and representative members

• Clauses 50A and 51 constitute a Cabinet led by a Prime Minister recommended by the Legislative Assembly and describe Cabinet as the executive authority of government.

  • supports · clauses 50A–51, Prime Minister and Cabinet

• The amended Constitution provides for the Legislative Assembly to recommend one of its elected representatives for appointment as Prime Minister by the King.

  • supports · clause 50A, election and appointment of Prime Minister

• The consulted English consolidation does not identify its translator or textual provenance, so its English institutional labels should not be assumed to exhaust Tongan meanings without comparison to versioned Tongan texts.

  • qualifies · title page and document metadata; no translator or source-text provenance stated

• Clause 50 of Tonga's Constitution establishes a Privy Council to advise the King and provides for its members to be appointed by the King.

  • supports · clause 50, Privy Council