Legal Framework
From The Report: Papua New Guinea 2016
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This chapter examines Papua New Guinea’s legal framework, focusing on regulations affecting foreign investors, restrictions and laws for companies, taxation and Customs duties, and other important areas.

It also contains a legal viewpoint from John Leahy, Partner, Leahy Lewin Lowing Sullivan, on proposed reforms to PNG’s land use regulations.

Articles from this Chapter

Overview

Laws of the land: An insight into legislation affecting foreign enterprises
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Governments & Their Powers There are three levels of government in Papua New Guinea, the national, provincial and local-level governments. The Constitution and the Organic Law on Provincial Government and Local Level Government (Organic Law) regulate the law-making powers of the national, provincial and local-level governments. Each level has its own distinct law-making powers. The law-making powers of the national parliament are covered in Section 41 of the Organic Law; the law-making…

Analysis

It’s personal: A new personal property security act regulates security interests in personal property
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The new personal property security registry (PPS Registry) went live on May 9, 2016. The Personal Property Security Act 2011 (PPS Act) was gazetted and came into operation on May 4, 2016 and the regulations made under that act (Regulations) came into operation on May 5, 2016. The PPS registry is fully electronic, and will receive notices of security interests and the interests of execution creditors (such as judgment holders, bankruptcy trustees and liquidators). Security holders or their…

Viewpoint

Points for debate: John Leahy, Partner at Leahy Lewin Lowing Sullivan, on proposed reforms to Papua New Guinea’s land use regulations
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Viewpoint:John Leahy Benny Allan, the minister of Lands and Physical Planning, has proposed a number of amendments to the Land Act. The key points include administrative reform, including restructuring of the Land Board, the abolition of special agriculture business leases, the foreign ownership restrictions on state leases and land administration matters. The minister is embarking on a range of initiatives to automate various registries, to allocate resources to train officials on land management…