Salanda Judiciary Act of 2026
Salanda Judiciary Act of 2026
~ Act of Tepoelan ~
~ Salanda Judiciary Act of 2026 ~
Preamble/Definition of this Act of Tepoelan:
An Act of Tepoelan to reform the Supreme Court of Salanda’s enforcement and removal mechanisms which work in sync by first interpreting the Constitution of Salanda (Basic Foundation Laws of Salanda) to make provision for a mechanism to remove inactive justices of the Supreme Court of Salanda and to create further a provision for a mechanism to establish a judicial guidance for the Supreme Court of Salanda to establish an enforcement mechanism. Thus this will strengthen the Supreme Court of Salanda’s removal and enforcement mechanism.
~ Section One - Defining Article 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution of Salanda (Basic Foundation Laws of Salanda) in regards to judicial inactivity ~
[Clause One] This is the following clause of the Constitution of Salanda: The Supreme Court Judge [or Chief Justice and Associate Justices if they are in the framework that is used] can be removed by a vote and expelled by the people without a vote should they commit serious crimes of high treason or immoral crimes.
[Clause Two] - It shall be defined and interpreted as follows: If the Justices of the Supreme Court of Salanda are inactive which shall be defined as 2 months that have had at least had 1 case in them with no activity, they can be removed through a vote internally within the Court that shall last up to 72 hours though this vote can end earlier if any Justices who were active in the last case prior to the vote reach a conclusive decision when voting. If the internal vote, votes to remove the Justice or Justices they shall be removed from office.
[Clause Three] - Only the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda shall be allowed to call such an internal vote if they feel said justices are inactive, with the sole exception being laid out in the next clause.
[Clause Four] - If the Chief Justice happens to be the subject of the vote (with the subject being the Chief Justice’s alleged inactivity) then the vote can only happen otherwise with a unanimous consent from all active justices on the Supreme Court of Salanda as well as a motion on the Chamber of Provincial Emissary that reaches at least 7 votes in favour. Shall there not be a unanimous consent from the active justices and no 7 vote margin in the Chamber of Provincial Emissary, no vote shall be held on that matter regarding the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda. However if there is unanimous consent from the active justices and 7 votes not including the Speaker or Deputy Speaker (shall the Deputy Speaker be stepping in for the Speaker to do the vote) of the Chamber of Provincial Emissary are achieved, the Chief Justice shall be removed from office.
[Clause Five] - As stated there must be both unanimous consent from all active justices and 7 votes minimum not including the Speaker (or the Deputy Speaker of the Chamber of Provincial Emissary shall they be stepping in for the Speaker to do the vote), both of these procedures must be done to remove the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda if only one of these procedures is done it is not enough. The order of how the removal is done does not matter if both of these procedures are carried out.
[Clause Six] - If any justice commits a serious crime of high treason or immoral crimes the people may expel them as mentioned in the Constitution of Salanda without a vote the mechanism to do this shall be laid out below:
[Clause Seven] - The people may present a petition of the people which has to be accepted by at least 15 participants after which the person or persons leading the petition shall go to the Prime Minister of Salanda who shall have the sole executive authority as being the head of the government that was elected by the people to approve or reject the petition, if the petition is approved the said justice or justices shall be removed from the Supreme Court of Salanda.
~ Section Two - Replacing removed justices in regards to judicial inactivity ~
[Clause One] - If the removed Justice/s of the Supreme Court of Salanda were appointed by the Government in office at the time, a new Justice or Justices shall be appointed by the Government in office at the time of removal of which the Prime Minister of Salanda shall officially nominate the new Justices of the Supreme Court of Salanda for formal appointment by the Incumbent Monarch of the Kingdom of Salanda.
[Clause Two] - If the removed Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda was elected by the people of Salanda that being the Elected Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda, the people shall elect a new Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda within one week of the removal of the previous Elected Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda. After which the new Elected Justice shall be formally appointed by the Incumbent Monarch of the Kingdom of Salanda.
[Clause Three] - If the removed Justice/s of the Supreme Court of Salanda was appointed by the Opposition in office at the time, a new Justice or Justices shall be appointed by the Opposition in Salanda, that being the largest party in the Chamber of Provincial Emissary which is not in Government of which the Leader of the Opposition of Salanda in the Chamber of Provincial Emissary shall officially nominate the new Justice/s of the Supreme Court of Salanda of which the Incumbent Monarch of Salanda shall formally appoint the new Justice/s of the Supreme Court of Salanda.
[Clause Four] - If there are many removed Justices at once, their replacements shall be done based on who they were previously appointed by as laid out in the clauses above in this section.
~ Section Three - Punishment for removed Justices in regards to inactivity ~
[Clause One] - If a Justice is removed through the procedures to address inactivity, they shall be barred from becoming a Justice again, unless they can prove that they will commit to being more active in the Kingdom after which the Chamber of Provincial Emissary of Salanda can commute their ban on being a Supreme Court of Salanda Justice down to 1 year through a simple majority motion.
[Clause Two] - If a Justice is removed because of serious crimes of high treason or immoral crimes they shall be permanently barred from being a Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda unless the Supreme Court of Salanda through unanimous consent of all active justices decides to exonerate and pardon them.
~ Section Four - Establishing a Judicial Guide ~
[Clause One] - The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda shall have the sole power to create a judicial guide based on Salandarian law (i.e, the Constitution of Salanda and all other Salandarian law) for all the Justices of the Supreme Court of Salanda to follow including themselves.
[Clause Two] - This judicial guide shall be published in the Supreme Court of Salanda and shall be made available to all Justices on the Supreme Court of Salanda.
[Clause Three] - The Chief Justice can amend and repeal in line with Salandarian law parts of the judicial guide when necessary while providing and letting the Court know formally including through a ping of all the changes to the judicial guide so that they have the latest and up to date information regarding it.
[Clause Four] - The judicial guide shall be established as the official rulebook of the Supreme Court of Salanda.
[Clause Five] - The judicial guide also may contain precedents both foreign and domestic if they do not violate existing Salandarian law and are secondary in already established matters in existing Salandarian law.
~ Section Five - Punishments for not following the Judicial Guide and further building on the definition of Article 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution of Salanda (Basic Foundation Laws)
[Clause One] This is the following clause of the Constitution of Salanda: The Supreme Court Judge [or Chief Justice and Associate Justices if they are in the framework that is used] can be removed by a vote and expelled by the people without a vote should they commit serious crimes of high treason or immoral crimes.
[Clause Two] - Using a similar mechanism like the one established by the one in Section One of this Act, this Act shall define ‘can be removed by a vote’ to also be using in the context when a justice is not following the judicial guide.
[Clause Three] - The removal mechanism here shall follow the procedure of removal laid out in the in Section One, the key difference shall be though, that when applying Section One on this part of the Act too, the point it shall be focused on is not on inactivity but is on breaking the judicial guide established by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Salanda.
~ Section Six - Replacing removed justices in regards to not following the judicial guide ~
[Clause One] - The procedure to replace removed justices in regard to not following the judicial guide shall follow the same procedure as Section Two of this Act.
~ Section Seven - Punishments for removed justices in regards to not following the judicial guide ~
[Clause One] - The punishments of removed justices for not following the judicial guide shall be the same punishment as mentioned in Section Three of this Act, Clause One with the only difference being that instead of proving to be committed to being active, they are willing to from that point on follow the judicial guide after which the Chamber of Provincial Emissary of Salanda can commute their ban on being a Supreme Court of Salanda Justice down to 1 year through a simple majority motion.
~ Section Eight - Mistakes within this Act ~
[Clause One] - Should there be any mistakes or grammatical errors within this Act that need cleaning up if it is contradictory - the Ministry of the Interior of Salanda led by the Home Secretary of Salanda shall be responsible for clearing up such errors if there are any that are contradictory in line with the ruling that was issued by the Supreme Court of Salanda on the 18 November 2024 in which it was ruled by the Court that the Ministry of the Interior of Salanda may fix typos and other errors that are contradictory to make them make sense.
[Clause Two] - However this remains strictly to actual grammatical errors and contradictory text not revised to suit interpretation and interests which are illegal.
~ Section Nine - In line with the Constitution of Salanda ~
This act is in line with the Constitution of Salanda (Basic Foundation Laws of Salanda) and does not violate Amendment 14 regarding riders in laws of Salanda as the enforcement and removal mechanisms with the order of how they are done not being relevant (see the sections of this Act) have to be in sync with each other for the Supreme Court of Salanda’s rules and duties to properly function as such this law is about one topic since the enforcement and removal are directly on the same topic since without an enforcement and removal mechanism the Supreme Court of Salanda could not carry out its rules and duties thus as such this Act of Tepoelan is fully in line with the Constitution of Salanda (Basic Foundation Laws of Salanda) regarding Amendment 14 of the Constitution of Salanda (Basic Foundation Laws of Salanda).
~ Section Ten – Entry of this Act of Tepoelan into the Law of Salanda ~
[Clause One] - This Act of Tepoelan shall become effective as a law of Salanda upon the signing of this Act of Tepoelan after being passed by the Chamber of Provincial Emissary of the Tepoelan and as such this Act of Tepoelan shall become enforceable as a law of Salanda upon the Royal Seal of Salanda being placed upon this Act of Tepoelan.
~ Section Eleven – Status of this Act of Tepoelan as a Law of Salanda ~
[Clause One] - This Act of Tepoelan cannot be repealed or amended by an Executive Order of Salanda and as such can only be repealed or amended by another Act of Tepoelan or by an Amendment to the Constitution of Salanda also known as the Basic Foundation Laws (of Salanda).
Signature/Approval of the Incumbent Monarch of (the Kingdom of) Salanda: