Cabinet of Nauru
The Nauruan government, English Government of Nauru is the executive of the State of Nauru and has certain powers of the legislature.
Structure and organs
There are regulations about the structure of government in Part III. The President and the Executive Article 16 - 25Vorlage: § § / Maintenance / old URL Constitution of Nauru in 1968.
The Government consists of the Broad:
- The President, the President
- The Cabinet, the government team with the president and ministers
- The Chief Secretary (Secretary General, Supreme Secretary of State )
Head of state and head of government: President of Nauru
The President of Nauru is head of state of Nauru, and served as President of the Cabinet and head of government ( provincial government ). It is determined by the Nauruan Parliament from among its members: The President must be a member of Parliament - except the speaker ( Speaker) or stellvertrendender speaker ( Deputy Speaker). He may be removed by a vote of no confidence by a simple majority ( of the whole ) Parliament.
The President represents the State, and ordered his hand the Cabinet Minister and the Chief Justice and the judges of the Supreme Court of Nauru, the Supreme Court - the judiciary is but classy.
Deputy Head of government: Prime Minister to act as President
A deputy president is not regularly appointed, the Office is provided only in the event and the time in which the President can not act because of illness, presence of Nauru or any other reason. Then, the Cabinet one of its members as exercising the presidency.
Government: Cabinet
The government, the Cabinet, is composed of the President and four or five ministers.
Ministers are appointed by the president and can be dismissed by him of the office, and must also be members of parliament. In addition, no member of the Government may not hold a paid office in the civil service or a public corporation.
The Cabinet has held the executive state authority and initiates and controls the government. It is collectively responsible to Parliament. The Ministers are sworn to loyalty and secrecy:
" I swear by Almighty God ... did I will faithfully carry out my duties as a member of the Cabinet and did I want to not improperly reveal any matters End of month I have become aware by reason of my membership of the Cabinet. So help me God. "
Council: Meetings of Cabinet
The Council of Ministers (Meetings of Cabinet ), the plenary body composed of President and Cabinet Ministers is the supreme decision-making body of the Government. It is chaired by the President. The modalities of the Cabinet is responsible for the decision of the Cabinet.
The Council of Ministers has certain powers with regard to the legislation, in particular, he may ask the Supreme Court to issue opinions on constitutional matters.
Portfolios: Ministries
The allocation of the portfolios of the government to the cabinet members - himself included - makes the President. The portfolios are:
- Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Resources ( trade, industry and raw materials)
- Ministry of Education (Education)
- Ministry of Finance and Sustainable Development ( Finance and Sustainable Development )
- Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (Fisheries and Marine Resources )
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade ( Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade)
- Ministry of Health ( Health )
- Ministry of Home Affairs (Home Affairs )
- Ministry of Justice (Justice )
- Ministry of Public Service (Staff )
- Ministry of Sports ( Sports )
- Ministry of Telecommunications ( Communications / Media )
- Ministry of Transport ( Transport / Transport)
There is to these offices - with one exception - no explicit government authorities, but a form of ministerial cabinets / Ministerialämtern under the Minister.
General and Services Committee: Chief Secretary of Nauru, Public Service Board
The Chief Secretary is an independent Office of the Government as the supreme Head of the Administrative and executive bodies. It determines the state employees, has the disciplinary supervision and relieve them of their duties.
He is determined and deducted by the Cabinet, and shall report to the Cabinet on its activities. In addition, however, the Parliament has the right to transfer the duties of the Chief Secretary to a committee, the Public Service Board. This will consist of the Chief Secretary as Chairman and at least two other members. This provides the control parlamantarische safe as the Chief Secretary and Chief of the Nauru Police Force, the police forces of the state.
In contrast to the government team of the Secretary of State may not therefore come from the ranks of the members of Parliament, the other members of the Public Service Board also.
Government agencies
The small state has no ministries in the European sense, the ministers have personal Ministerialämter ( Government Offices ), in which the Government work is handled, depending on which department headed by a minister. You are consistently in the Government Building, Yaren District, the de facto capital of Nauru. An exception is the Department of Economic Development, Trade & Investment Division - National Agency for Economic Development, Trade and Investment Department.
Among the subordinate agencies, including state-owned enterprises include:
- Nauru Bureau of Statistics ( NBOS ) - Statistical Office
- Nauru Broadcasting Service ( NBS) - Broadcasting Office, in charge of the state television and radio
- Nauru Utilities Corporation ( NUC ) - Infrastructure Agency for Electricity, water, and energy / fuel
- Nauru Air Corporation (NAC ) - Department of Aviation, operates the Our Airline ( Air Nauru fka )
- Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust ( NPRT ) - regulator of the phosphate mining, supervised especially the Republic of Nauru Phosphate ( RONPhos, ex Nauru Phosphate Corporation NPC)
- Nauru Rehabilition Corporation ( NRC) - Agency for the restoration of mining areas