Central Province (Papua New Guinea) Central Province (Papua New Guinea) Central Province is a province in Papua New Guinea located on the southern coast of the country. It has a population of 237,016 (2010 census) people and is in size. The seat of government of Central Province, which is located within the National Capital District outside the province, is the Port Moresby suburb of Konedobu. On 9 October 2007, the Central Province government announced plans to build a new provincial capital city at Bautama, which lies within Central Province near Port Moresby, although there has been little progress in constructing it. Whereas Tok Pisin is
Law of Papua New Guinea he had formerly presided with respect to a capital case which was then "sub judice". The newspaper was smartly reminded by the court that such challenge was likely to result in severe sanctions, and Sir Arnold withdrew. Weisbrot, D., Paliwala, A. and Sawyerr, A. "Law and Social Change in Papua New Guinea" (Sydney, 1982) Law of Papua New Guinea The law of Papua New Guinea consists of the Constitution, ordinary statutes enacted by Parliament or adopted at Independence from overseas (together with their pendant regulations) and judge-made law. The Constitution is "autochthonous" (a constitutional term of art also used in