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Article 56
The laws establishes the rules concerning:
• the organization of the public powers;
• the distribution of the competences between the State and the local
collectivities as well as the creation of offices, of public establishments, and
of national companies or enterprises;
• the enjoyment and the exercise of the civil and civic rights, nationality, the
estate and the security of persons, the organization of the family, the
regime of property and of inheritance and of the law of obligations;
• the fundamental guarantees accorded to the citizens for the exercise of
their public freedoms and the requirements imposed by the national
defense;
• the electoral regime;
• the fundamental guarantees accorded to the civil and military
functionaries;
• the determination of crimes and misdemeanors and the penalties
applicable to them, the criminal procedure, amnesty, the judicial
organization, the status of judges, of the ministerial officers and of the
juridical and judiciary professions and the organization of the prison
regime;
• the general principles of education;
• the fundamental principles of the right to work, of the syndical right and of
social security;
• the basis, rates and the modalities of collecting taxes of any nature;
• the regime of issuance of money, of credit, and of banks and of insurance.
Article 57
The matters other than those that are of the domain of the law by virtue of this
Constitution belong to the regulatory power.
• Constitutional court powers
• Initiation of general legislation
The texts of legislative form intervening in these matters can be modified by decree
if the Constitutional Council, at the demand of the President of the Republic,
declares that they have a regulatory character by virtue of the preceding paragraph.
Article 58
The initiative of law belongs concurrently to the President of the Republic and to the
members of the National Assembly.
The President of the Republic and the Deputies have the right of amendment.
Article 59
The proposals, Bills and amendments which are not of the domain of the law are
irreceivable. The irreceivability is declared by the President of the National
Assembly after the deliberation of the Bureau.
• Constitutional court powers
Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010)
In case of dispute, the Constitutional Council, referred to the matter by the
President of the National Assembly or the President of the Republic decides in a time
of twenty days.
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