CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOZAMBIQUE
Article 140
Heads and Agents of Public Offices
1. Central offices shall take action directly, or through appointed heads or agents
of the administration, who shall supervise central activities within a particular
territorial area.
2. The law shall determine the form, organisation and powers for the exercise of
Public Administration.
Article 141
Provincial Government
1. The representative of the Government at provincial level is the Provincial
Governor.
2. The Provincial Government is the body charged with ensuring the
implementation, at provincial level, of centrally defined Government policies, and
it shall exercise administrative supervision over local authorities, in accordance
with the law.
3. Members of the Provincial Government shall be appointed by the Ministers
responsible for the particular portfolios, in consultation with the Provincial
Governor.
4. The organisation, composition, functioning and powers of Provincial
Government shall be defined by law.
Article 142
Provincial Assemblies
1. Provincial assemblies shall be democratically representative bodies elected by
universal, direct suffrage and by secret ballot, in accordance the principle of
proportional representation, and their terms of office shall be five years.
2. Provincial assemblies shall, in particular, have the power to:
a) supervise and monitor adherence to principles and norms established in
the Constitution and in the laws, as well as the observance of decisions of
the Council of Ministers relating to the particular province;
b) approve the Provincial Government programme and supervise and
monitor compliance with it.
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