Nauru

Population Statistics

9,540

Total Population

1,431

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

27 June 2012

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of Nauru (1968, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Article 21 states:

The Cabinet may appoint a Minister to perform the duties and exercise the functions of the President during any period during which the President is unable to act owing to illness, absence from Nauru or any other cause.

 

Article 31 states:

No person is qualified to be elected a member of the Legislative Assembly if he…

  • (b) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged according to the law to be mentally disordered…

 

Article 51, Section (1) states:

A judge of the Supreme Court may not be removed from office except on a resolution of Parliament approved by not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of Parliament praying for his removal from office on the ground of proved incapacity or misconduct.

 

Article 66, Section (5) states:

The Director of Audit may not be removed from office except on a resolution of Parliament approved by not less than two-thirds of the total number of members of Parliament praying for his removal from office on the ground of proved incapacity or misconduct.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of Nauru (1968, last amended 2013)