Law 28 Amend

Haor Chall

Haor Chall

The Power of the Dark Side
TNP Nation
Haor Chall
This is not any change to the Law as such, rather a tidying up of the provisions made for the adoption of this law which are surely no longer necessary and serve only to confuse the issue.


TNP LAW 28
Regional Assembly Registration and Membership

Section One. A Law on Regional Assembly Registration and Membership is hereby adopted, as follows:

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Regional Assembly Registration and Membership

Article I

Membership Requirements

Section One

Membership in The North Pacific Regional Assembly does not require UN membership, in accorance with the TNP Bill of Rights.  However, the following requirements must be met and confirmed for membership.

1. Assembly member applicants must maintain a nation in The North Pacific.

2.  Each member Nation will by oath, abide by the Constitution of The North Pacific and The North Pacific Legal Code.

3.  Each member Nation shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any other nation or region in a manner inconsistent with the Constitution of The North Pacific.

4.  Each member Nation shall refrain from giving assistance to any nation or region against which The North Pacific is taking defensive or enforcement action. Exceptions shall be given to Nations acting with official authorization of the North Pacific Army or Intelligence Agencies, and is subject to the consent of the Cabinet.

5.  The use of a proxy server by an applicant for Regional Assembly member status is grounds for automatic denial of Regional Assembly member] application.

a. Proxy server usage is defined as the use of an IP connection with the intent of rendering a forum user anonymous, aka proxy spoofing, or any such practice designed to allow a member to have multiple accounts on the TNP forum.

Section Two

All Assembly applicants are required to post the following Oath, as their application to join.  The Oath will be posted by the applicant in the thread provided by the Speaker of The Assembly.

Your TNP Nation's name
Your UN Nation's name
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I, (forum user name), as the leader of The North Pacific nation of (your TNP nation's name), pledge loyalty to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Laws of The North Pacific Region, and to act as a responsible member of its society. I understand that if my Nation leaves The North Pacific region for reasons other than for official government business, that I may be stripped of my right to vote and required to reapply. I pledge to only register one Nation to vote in The North Pacific. I understand that my registration of, or attempt to register, multiple Nations to vote in The North Pacific shall warrant the summary withdrawal of my right to vote from all my Nations, past, present, and future, as well as possible expulsion from the Region. I further understand that if any nation under my control directly wages war against the North Pacific, or allies themselves with a region waging war, declared or not, against the North Pacific, this shall warrant the summary withdrawal of my right to vote from all my Nations, past, present, and future, as well as possible expulsion from the Region. In this manner, I petition the Speaker of The Regional Assembly of The North Pacific region for membership in the Regional Assembly.


Article II

Registrant Processing and Membership Confirmation

Section One

The Speaker of the Assembly, or a deputy so appointed by the Speaker, shall be responsible for processing and confirming the Assembly membership of applicants.

1. The Speaker shall provide and maintain a forum thread for the posting of Assembly applications.

2. The Speaker or assigned deputy, shall respond to applicant requests within 14 days. Failure to respond to the applicant within the specified period will result in automatic admittance of the applicant to the Assembly.

3. The Speaker will work with the forum Administrators and any Intelligence information provided to the Speaker, to ensure applicant compliance with membership eligibiliy.

4. The Speaker or assigned deputy will be responsible to maintain and post an updated list of Assembly members. The list shall be updated no less than once a month.

Article III

Member Removal

In accordance with Article II, Section Three of the Constitution, providing for the removal of unelected goverrnment members, the following methods and instances are provided for removal of Assembly members.

Section One

Violation of the Constitution or Laws of The North Pacific

1. Any Assembly member that has been found by due process to be in violation of the Constitution and Laws of The North Pacific shall be removed with immediate effect by The Speaker.

Section Two

Inactivity

1. Assembly members whose] nation has CTE'd (Ceased to Exist) or who have moved out of The North Pacific when not on offical business shall be removed from membership automatically by the Speaker.

2. Assembly members who fail to indicate their activity on the forum by posting for over 30 days shall be removed from membership automatically by the Speaker.

Section Three

Proxy Use

Use of a proxy server by an Assembly member, without specific official TNP permission for Army or Intelligence purpose, is forbidden and is grounds for immediate removal from the Assembly.

1. Forum administrators shall inform the Speaker in the event that an Assembly member is found to be engaged in the use of a proxy server to access the forum.

2. Upon notification, the Speaker shall immedately remove the offending member from the Assembly.

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Section Two.. The Law contained in Section One of this Act shall take effect upon its adoption pursuant to the Constitution. Current members of the Regional Assembly are required to subscribe and execute the oath as enacted by the Law contained in Section One of this Act within one week after enactment pursuant to the Constitution.

Section Three., If, once seven days has elapsed after the Law contained in Section One of this Act takes effect, a member of the Regional Assembly has not executed such oath, they shall be suspended from membership in the Regional Assembly as well as any office or position they may otherwise hold in The North Pacific. This suspension shall be enforced by the use of a temporary mask by forum administration. Once the oath has been duly executed, the suspension shall be lifted promptly and without delay.
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Repeal of Section 2 and 3 of the overall act that enacted Law 28, which you propose to do, HC, would deprive as many as 80 RA members of their right to be reinstated. (I haven't checked the number lately, but I will when I have a spare minute.)

Your statement that the provisions " which are surely no longer necessary and serve only to confuse the issue" is off the mark. Totally.
 
First those two paragraphs are verbatim the same process that was used the last time (before Law 28 was adopted) the RA oath was amended. We never had any issues concerning it, and it work the way it was intended,

My point is that those two provisions remain fully operative in the current environment.

The fact that you prefer to deprive others of their rights of membership on a permanent basis without due process of law says more about you than anything else.

It's a very bad idea and does not merit much repesct as a proposal.
 
Agreed.

The provisions you want to remove are doing no harm and it would deprive suspended RA members of the rights that have been granted to RA members who were restored to full membership via this clause.
 
Grosseschnauzer:
The fact that you prefer to deprive others of their rights of membership on a permanent basis without due process of law says more about you than anything else.
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How is expecting them to re-apply within the normal procedures "depriving" them of their membership? They can still get it back. Part of my concern is that these provisions are been inaccurately applied, as their apparent use by the Court would suggest. Being as the people you're talking about haven't been active for over six months I think the chances of them returning are somewhat slim and, the point is, if they do return they can reapply as per normal. Joining the RA isn't especially onerous so I'm not sure why you seem to think this would "deprive" people of their membership on a "permanent" basis.

In fact, what is slightly odd is that they should surely all be removed from the RA anyway, under the inactivity provisions that exist (Section 1, Article 3, Section 2). I would presume that should apply to "suspended" RA members. Or do suspended RA members have more rights than those RA members who were active enough to bother with the new oath at some point in the last six months?

Ultimately, considering the length of time that has passed I think it is perfectly acceptable to say that they now have to reapply using the standard arrangement.
 
It's not a question of "political acceptability" it is a question of respecting the rights of each and every nation in the North Pacific. Suspended members of the RA, are nonetheless members of the RA. They've been promised automatic reinstatement once they post the RA oath required in Law 28. Your proposal would do violence to the commitments made in the Bill of Rights, and that were respected in the manner by which Law 28 was written.

And I would deem someone a hypocrite in being responsibile for the Bill of Rights being made a separate document on the one hand, and so will to trample up[on it on the other.
 
Haor Chall:

In fact, what is slightly odd is that they should surely all be removed from the RA anyway, under the inactivity provisions that exist (Section 1, Article 3, Section 2). I would presume that should apply to "suspended" RA members. Or do suspended RA members have more rights than those RA members who were active enough to bother with the new oath at some point in the last six months?
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Haor Chall:
Haor Chall:

In fact, what is slightly odd is that they should surely all be removed from the RA anyway, under the inactivity provisions that exist (Section 1, Article 3, Section 2). I would presume that should apply to "suspended" RA members. Or do suspended RA members have more rights than those RA members who were active enough to bother with the new oath at some point in the last six months?
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:yes:

I'm personally sick of dealing with them.
 
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