Cook Islands

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 27, subsection (2) states:

Parliament shall consist of [24] members, to be elected by secret ballot under a system of universal suffrage by the electors…

 

Article 28 states:

(1) No person shall be qualified to be an elector for the election of a Member of Parliament, unless -

• (a) The person is a Cook Islander (as defined in an Act prescribing the qualifications of electors), a New Zealand citizen or has the status of a permanent resident of the Cook Islands (as provided for by Article 76A); and
• (b) The person has at some time resided continuously in the Cook Islands for a period of not less than 12 months.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Cook Islands (1964, last amended 2004)

 

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Article 14, subsection (7) states:
The [Queen's Representative], acting on the advice of the [Prime Minister], may, by instrument under the Seal of the Cook Islands: -(a) Declare a Minister to be by reason of illness temporarily incapable of performing his functions as a Minister...

 

Excerpt from the Constitution of Cook Islands (1964, last amended 2004)

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Article 14, subsection (7) states:

The [Queen's Representative], acting on the advice of the [Prime Minister], may, by instrument under the Seal of the Cook Islands: -(a) Declare a Minister to be by reason of illness temporarily incapable of performing his functions as a Minister…

 

Article 54 states:

The Chief Justice or any other Judge of the High Court, other than a Judge appointed under the provisions of Article 51 hereof, may be removed from office by the [[Queen's Representative]] only for inability to discharge the functions of his office (whether arising from infirmity of body or mind or from any other cause)…

 

Article 74, subsection (3) states:

The Queen’s Representative, acting on the advice of the Prime Minister, may suspend or remove the Public Service Commissioner from office for disability…

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Cook Islands (1964, last amended 2004)