Interim charter amendments take effect Thursday
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The amendments of the 2014 provisional charter will take effect Thursday after the bill was published in the Royal Gazette Wednesday.
The amendment will pave the way for a national referendum on the draft constitution.
Other revisions include allowing former politicians who had already served their political bans to join the Cabinet and other related agencies; extending the time frame of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) to revise the second draft of the new charter to 90 days; the provision calling for the dissolution of the National Reform Council after voting on the new charter to make way for a reform mobilisation committee; and the provision calling for a new CDC to be established in the event the public referendum rejects the draft charter.
