Oxford LibGuides: Pacific Islands: legal resources: Legislation & cases: Common Law Countries

Pacific Islands A- N

American Samoa

Cook Islands

Cook Islands: Parliament
Official website. Includes Acts, members, standing order, Hansard, and committees.
Cook Islands: Primary Sources (PacLII)
Free resource. Via Paclii.
Cook Islands: Ministry of Justice
Official website.

Fiji

Parliament of Fiji
Official website Hansard, Bills, members, research and library.
Fiji Primary Sources (PacLII)

Guam & Northern Mariana Islands

Hawaii

Kiribati

Maneaba ni Maungatabu (House of Assembly) Kiribati.
Official website. In 1979 the Gilbert Islands, Banaba, the Phoenix and the Line Islands became the independent Republic of Kiribati.
Kiribati: Primary Sources (via PacLII)

Marshall Islands (Republic of, RMI)

Micronesia (Federated States of)

Micronesia Government
Official website. Includes current news, statements, missions, and treaties and conventions.
FSM Legal Information System
Official website "The Legal Information System (LIS) of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) seeks to improve public access to the laws and other legal authority of the FSM and its four states. This LIS Project strives to do so by increasing accessibility to the constitutions, statutes, selected court rules and decisions, and selected rules and regulations of the FSM National Government and the four state governments of Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap."

Nauru

New Zealand

New Zealand : legal resources
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Niue

Palau

Palau Government
Official website Your guide to finding and using Palau National Government services
Palau : Primary Sources (PacLII)

Papua New Guinea (PNG)

Papua New Guinea Parliament
Official website Includes free access to pdfs of legislation from 2012 onwards.
Papua Primary Sources via PacLII

Pitcairn Islands

Samoa

Solomon Islands

National Parliament of Solomon Islands
Free resource. Business and procedure, legislation, Hansard, committees, memebers.
Solomon Islands (PacLII)

Tokelau

Government of Tokelau
Official website
Tokelau: A History of Government
Free resource. The constitutional history and legal development of Tokelau. By Tony Angelo and Talei Pasikale (2008).
Tokelau Self-Determination Package
This is a compilation of 2 documents - the Draft Constitution of Tokelau as endorsed by the General Fono in May 2005 and the Treaty of Free Association between New Zealand and Tokelau which has been approved by New Zealand's Cabinet on 21 November 2005. The principles of this draft were discussed and approved by the August 2005 General Fono, and subsequently finalised in light of those discussions by the Council and Administrator of Tokelau.

The documents are in English and Tokelauan. The Tokelauan version has been approved by the Constitution Translation Committee which reported to the General Fono of November 2005.
Tokelau Primary Sources (PacLII)

Tonga

Tuvalu

(formerly Ellice Islands)

Vanuatu

(formerly New Hebrides)

Government of Vanuatu
Official website. Includes ministries, departments, Office of the Public Service Commission (OPSC), documents, and development partners.
Parliament of Vanuatu
Official website. Includes library of Legislation (including 2006 consolidation), Hansard, Committees etc/
Vanuatu Primary Resources (PACLII)
Vanuatu Law Reports 1980-1994
On PacLII