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Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (Establishment of Council Secretaries) Decree, 1997

A 1997 AFRC decree providing for the appointment of Council Secretaries within the military junta's administrative structure.

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Summary

This Decree was made in 1997 by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) during its period of military rule. It provided for the establishment and appointment of Council Secretaries, officials who performed functions within the junta's administrative apparatus in place of the ordinary ministerial structure.

Instruments of this kind were the means by which the unelected AFRC organised the administration of government. The Decree belongs to the body of AFRC-era enactments addressed after the restoration of the elected government in 1998.

Main provisions

  • Provides for the establishment and appointment of Council Secretaries.
  • Defines their place within the AFRC administrative structure.
  • Made under the authority asserted by the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council in 1997.
  • Part of the body of AFRC-era instruments of 1997.