Bill 40.

Summary.

The bill concerns Law 49 of 1984, which establishes the Organic Rules of Internal Procedure of the National Assembly (Asamblea Nacional). Its purpose is to repeal Articles 181, 182 and 183 of that law. The repeals are set out across the bill’s first three articles and are stated again, together, in Article 4. Article 5 governs when the proposed law would take effect. The text focuses on those provisions of the National Assembly’s internal rules and on the point at which their repeal would become effective.

Article 1 proposes the repeal of Article 181 of Law 49 of 1984. It frames the measure as the direct repeal of an article identified by number in the law containing the organic rules. This first provision deals solely with Article 181; in the bill’s sequence, it begins the series of individual repeals that a later clause brings together.

Article 2 proposes the repeal of Article 182 of the same Law 49 of 1984. Like the preceding provision, it identifies individually the article of the existing law to which the measure applies. The bill thus sets out a second express repeal, concerning Article 182 of the internal rules, before addressing the next article it proposes to repeal.

Article 3 proposes the repeal of Article 183 of Law 49 of 1984. This provision completes the sequence of individual repeals: Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the bill correspond, respectively, to Articles 181, 182 and 183 of that law. Each identifies a specific provision that the bill seeks to remove from force.

Article 4 brings those measures together and provides for the repeal of Articles 181, 182 and 183 of Law 49 of 1984. It also identifies that law as the one establishing the Organic Rules of Internal Procedure of the National Assembly. This clause therefore states collectively the scope of the three repeals previously expressed separately. Article 5 provides that the proposed law would take effect on the day after its promulgation; that rule sets the intended commencement of the repeals.

The public institution connected with the bill is the National Assembly, whose internal procedure is addressed by the named law. Given its subject matter, the bill could be of interest to people involved in parliamentary activity and to those who consult or apply the Organic Rules of Internal Procedure of the National Assembly.