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Preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
TITLE I: THE STATE AND NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
CHAPTER II: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
TITLE II: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF
THE CITIZEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
CHAPTER I: FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Article 14: Welfare of victims of genocide against the Tutsi and other needy persons . . . . . . . . 10
Article 20: Non retroactivity of criminal law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Article 26: Marriage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Article 34: Freedom of press and information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
CHAPTER II: RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE CITIZEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Article 49: Right and duty to a clean and healthy environment and the duty to protect it . . . . . . 15
Article 51: Safeguarding cultural traditions and memorial sites of genocide against the Tutsi . . 15
TITLE III: POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Article 56: National Consultative Forum of Political Organizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Article 58: Power sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Article 59: Functions incompatible with the active membership of political organizations . . . . . . 17
TITLE IV: BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Article 61: Oath of office of authorities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
CHAPTER II: THE LEGISLATURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1: The Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sub-section 1: General provisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Article 65: Taking office for members of the Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Article 68: Incompatibility with the office of a member of the Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Article 69: Immunity for members of the Parliament and procedures of their prosecution . . . 20
Article 70: Holding of sessions and meetings of the Chambers of Parliament . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Sub-section 2: The Chamber of Deputies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Article 76: Composition of the Chamber of Deputies, term of office and modalities for their
election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Article 77: Members of the Chamber of Deputies elected by ballot from a final list of names . 23
Article 78: Replacement of a Deputy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Article 79: State Finance law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Sub-section 3: The Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Article 82: Composition of the Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Article 83: Requirements for membership of the Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Rwanda 2003 (rev. 2010)
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