Bills

Bills before Parliament

Bills are draft acts of Parliament which are introduced into the House for discussion. A law begins its life as a Bill. This is a proposal for a new Act of Parliament. However before a Bill can become an Act it must pass through several stages in the Parliament. As it passes through Parliament a Bill can be amended during the Committee stages. All actions taken by a government must always be lawful in terms of the Constitution. That means that no Bill can be in conflict with what is in the Constitution. The only exception to this is a Bill to amend the Constitution.

There are two main types of Bills in the Vanuatu Parliament. These are Government Bills and Private Bills. The Budget is simply a rather complicated form of Government Bill and it will be dealt with separately. Government Bills are by far the most common. They may arise from party policy, or because interest groups have asked for them or because the Administration has decided it needs them or they may be to make Vanuatu follow a new international agreement or United Nations resolution.

These are the bills put before Parliament for the Second Ordinary Session of 2024

(7th of November 2024)

Bill No.	Bill Title	English version	Version Française	Status
1	- Bill for the Appropriation (2025) Act No. of 2024 - Projet de Loi de Finances (2025) No. de 2024
2	- Bill for the supplementary Appropriation (2024) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi de Finances Complementaires (2024) No. de 2024
3	- Bill for the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Project de Loi No. de 2024 sur la Lutte Contre le Blanchiment D'Argent
4	- Bill for the Virtual Assets Services Providers Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi sur les Prestataires de services d'actifs virtuels
5	- Bill for the Data Protection and Privacy Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative a la Protection des Donnees a Caractere Personnel
6	- Bill for the Digital Safety Authority Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi N° de 2024 sur l’autorité de la Sécurité Numérique
7	- Bill for the Harmful Digital Communication Act No. of 2024
8	- Bill for the Disaster Recovery and Resilience Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 sur la Reprise après sinistre et résilience
9	- Bill for the Electrical Works Safety Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi N° de 2024 sur la Sécurité des Travaux Électriques
10	- Bill for the Parliament (Members' Expenses and Allowances) Act No. of 2024
11	- Bill for the Agriculture (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 sur L'Agriculture (Modification)
12	- Bill for the Public Private Partnership Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative aux Partenariat Public-Privé
13	- Bill for the Public Private Partnership (Consequential Amendments) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative aux Partenariats Public-Prives(Modifications correlatives)
14	- Bill for the Government Contracts and Tenders (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 sur less Marchés publics et marchés par adjudication (Modification)
15	- Bill for the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime (Ratification) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 sur la Convention de Budapest sur la cybercriminalité (Ratification)
16	- Bill for the Resident Entity (Economic Substance) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative aux Entites Residentes (Substance Economique)
17	- Bill for the Resident Entity (Economic Substance) (Consequential Amendments) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative aux entites Residentes (Sub Econo) (Mod Consecutiv)
18	- Bill for the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi Modificative No. de 2024 (Dispositions Diverses)
19	- Bill for the Child Protection Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative a la Protection de L'Enfance
20	- Bill for the Teaching Service (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative au Corps Enseignant (Modification)
21	- Bill for the Public Service (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi N° de 2024 relative à la Fonction Publique (Modification)
22	- Bill for the Arms Trade Treaty (Ratification) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi N° de 2024 relative au Traité sur le Commerce des Armes (Ratification)
23	- Bill for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Ratification) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi N° de 2024 Relative À la Convention sur les Armes À sous-Munitions (Ratification)
24	- Bill for the Multilateral Agreement on the Liberalization of International Air Transportation (Ratification) Act No. of 2024
25	- Bill for the Vanuatu Intellectual Property Office Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 sur L'Office de la Propriete Intellectuelle de Vanuatu
26	- Bill for the Commercial Government Business Enterprise Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2018 Relative aux Entreprises Publiques Commerciales
27	- Bill for the Land Leases (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 sur les Baux Fonciers (Modification)
28	- Bill for the Industrial Hemp and Medical Cannabis (Amendment) Act No. of 2024 -Projet de Loi No. de 2024 relative au Chanvre industriel & cannabis médicinal (Modification)