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Article 85: Approval of the list of candidates by the Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Article 86: Replacement of a Senator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Article 88: Powers of the Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Section 2: Initiation and adoption of Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Article 92: Examination of draft laws by Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Article 93: Mode of adoption of Laws and their hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
CHAPTER III: THE EXECUTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 1: The President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Article 98: Responsibilities of the President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Article 100: Election of the President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Article 102: Period for holding presidential elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Article 103: Procedure for holding elections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Article 104: Oath of office of the President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Article 108: Promulgation of laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Article 110: Powers of the President of the Republic in matters concerning war . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Article 112: Signing Presidential Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Article 113: Orders signed by the President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Article 115: Benefits entitled to the President of the Republic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Section 2: The Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Article 116: Composition of Cabinet and appointment of its members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Article 117: Appointment and responsibilities of the Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Article 118: Responsibilities of the Prime Minister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Article 121: Items deliberated upon by the Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Article 122: Benefits for members of the Cabinet and incompatibilities with their office . . . . . 37
Section 3: Public Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
CHAPTER IV: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE LEGISLATURE AND EXECUTIVE . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Article 133: Dissolution of Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Article 134: Informing the Parliament of Government activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
CHAPTER V: THE JUDICIARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Section 1: General provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Article 141: Functioning of Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Article 142: Term of office of the heads of Courts and judicial functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Section 2: Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Article 143: Court classification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sub-section 1: Ordinary Courts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
A. Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Article 145: Jurisdiction and responsibilities of the Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Article 147: Appointment of judges of the Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Article 148: List of candidates as judges of the Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Rwanda 2003 (rev. 2010)

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