General Amendments Act 2018
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Act 45
In accordance with the Supreme Directive of the Empire of Adammia, on the authority of the Ruling Council and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor, this following Act of Council is hereby enacted, with the purpose of making technical improvements to prior Acts of Council, seeking to resolve amgibuities and contradictions and to close loopholes.
Section 1
- a) This section amends the Emergency Situations Act 2014.
- b) Any citizen who materially supports a rebellion shall have committed an offence of treason. A court that finds a person guilty of this crime may order that the offender pay a fine of up to £40 to His Majesty's Imperial Treasury, may order titles and honours to be stripped from the offender, and may order for the offender's citizenship to be revoked.
- c) A rebellion which poses a serious threat to the Empire's integrity should result in a State of Emergency being declared in order to break up the rebellion.
Section 2
- a) This section amends the Internal Procedures Act 2014.
- b) The first section of Section 5 (a) shall now read “Certain motions are eligible for debate whereas others are not.” This is to affect a more official style.
Section 3
- a) This section amends the Employment and Wage Act 2015.
- b) At the end of the third sentence of Section 1 (b), as previously amended, “the employee or the employer” shall be inserted.
Section 4
- a) This section amends the Defence Act 2015.
- b) Section 2 (c) shall be repealed.
- c) In Section 3 (a) the I in Internet will be capitalised.
Section 5
- a) This section amends the Imperial Government Act 2015 and the Imperial Government and Postal Service Act 2014.
- b) The Cabinet Secretary may be removed from office by the Lord/Lady Chancellor or by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister must then appoint a new Cabinet Secretary.
- c) The head of any government agency may be removed from office by the minister of the department to which the agency belongs. The minister must then appoint a new head for that agency.
Section 6
- a) This section amends the Political Parties Act 2015.
- b) The presidents of all registered political parties must report to the Office of State the number of members of their party within the month of October each year.
- c) If the president of a party does not meet the requirement in subsection (b), the Office of State may remove that president from office, and ban that individual from being the president of any political party, temporarily or permanently.
- d) A party president who is found to have intentionally lied about the number of members of their party to the Office of State shall have committed an offence of political fraud. A court which finds a person guilty of this offence may order the offender to pay a fine of up to £30 to His Majesty's Imperial Treasury, and should permanently ban the offender from acting as the president of any political party and ban them from standing in any local or national election.
Section 7
- a) This section amends the Diplomacy and Terrorism Act 2016.
- b) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall determine the list of classified terror organisations, and may add or remove organisations from this list as it sees fit.
- c) The Empire of Adammia hereby recognises the Italian Republic, the Republic of Austria and the Empire of Japan as sovereign states.
Section 8
- a) This section amends the Land Ownership Act 2016.
- c) For the purposes of this section, “estate” means any distinct singular area of land within the Empire which is registered with the Imperial Land Registry.
- b) The macronational owner of any estate of land within the Empire shall enjoy all of the rights conveyed to that estate by macronational authorities.
- c) The micronational owner of any estate of land within the Empire, except where overruled by their equivalent macronational owner, shall enjoy the following rights over that estate:
- i) Right of way, the right to traverse, enter and leave the estate at will;
- ii) The right to store personal property on the estate;
- iii) The right to erect temporary structures on the estate;
- iv) The right to conduct any other activities on the estate which do not permanently alter the landscape or any permanent structures on the estate, cause disruption for the owners of other estates, or otherwise contravene the law.
- d) The micronational owner of any estate may erect permanent structures on that estate or alter its landscape, if and only if they have received the written permission of the local government of the territorial division in which that estate is located. In granting this permission, the local government must ascertain that the proposed development will not contravene macronational land planning laws.
- e) The micronational owner of any estate may share some or all of the rights associated with the estate with any legal entity, over any part of the estate, for any length of time.
- f) The micronational owner of any estate who uses their estate in any way which contravenes subsection (c), except where permitted by subsection (d), shall have committed an offence of improper use of land. A court which finds any legal entity guilty of this offence may order that the offender pay a fine of no greater than £30 to His Majesty's Imperial Treasury, as well as damages to other legal entities who have been negatively affected by the offence.
- g) Any legal entity which carries out any activity on an estate that they do not own micronationally or macronationally, which has not been permitted by the micronational owner in accordance with subsection (e), shall have committed an offence of trespassing. A court which finds any legal entity guilty of this offence may order that the offender pay a fine of no greater than £30 to His Majesty's Imperial Treasury, as well as damages to the micronational landowner.
- h)
- i) The micronational owner of any estate may lease all or part of the estate to any legal entity, referred to herein as a leesee, which shall convey some or all of the rights associated with that estate, as well as the right to share some or all of those rights in accordance with section (e).
- ii) These rights may only be conferred as such by means of the signing of a lease by both the owner and the leesee, which states the conferred rights and their extent, and which will last for a certain amount of time.
- iii) The owner is obligated to report all leases that last for more than one year that they have granted from their estate to the Imperial Land Registry within one month of the lease being signed, and any owner who does not comply shall have committed an offence of improper use of land, as in section (f).
- iv) In the event that the leesee dies during the term of the lease, the lease will immediately become null and void.
- i) In the event of the death of the micronational owner of an estate, ownership of the estate shall be transferred:
- i) firstly, in the event that the deceased landowner has a will, the estate will be divided amongst named legal entities in accordance with the will, in which case new deeds for the land will be signed by both the new owner(s) and the executor of the will.
- ii) secondly, if there is no will, the estate will be granted in whole to the deceased landowner's next-of-kin, in which case the new deed for the land will be signed by the next-of-kin only.
- iii) thirdly, if there is no will or next-of-kin, the estate will be granted in whole to His Majesty's Imperial Government, in which case the new deed for the land will be signed by the Minister of Finance only.
- j) Micronational estates of land may be owned by the Imperial Government, in which case the rights for the land are automatically granted to all government departments and agencies.
- k) Land where all citizens have been granted right of way shall be referred to as common land.
- l) Persons who have been declared persona non grata by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall not be granted right of way to any land within the Empire, and if found on Adammic territory shall be immediately arrested and deported to the nearest macronation.
- m) All micronational land estates are hereby seized and granted to the Imperial Government.
Written by Lord Helliker, 2nd Archduke of South Adammia, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor.
Tabled by Lord Sir Alexander Helliker: Prime Minister of Adammia
PASSED
6 in favour
4 not present
Signed,
Adamus Primus Imperator
29th April 2018 14:50
XXIX.IV.MMXVIII
CXIX.VI.ADAMVS I