ABSTRACT
All regional written constitutions provide for an elected legislative body, which is authorised to make laws.93 In Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Nauru, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, this body is called a Parliament. In Samoa and Tonga, it is called a Legislative Assembly, in Kiribati, it is called the Maneaba ni Maungatabu, and, in Niue, the Niue Assembly. In Tokelau, where there is no written constitution, the law making bodies are established by legislation enacted by the New Zealand Parliament and will be discussed later in this chapter.
