(6) the procurator general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
Article 64 Amendments to the Constitution must be proposed by the National People's Congress Standing
Committee or by one-fifth or more of National People's Congress deputies and be adopted by a vote of at
least two-thirds of National People's Congress deputies.
Laws and other proposals shall be adopted by a majority vote of the National People's Congress deputies.
Article 65 The National People's Congress Standing Committee shall be composed of the following personnel:
a chairperson,
vice chairpersons,
a secretary general, and
members.
There should be an appropriate number of ethnic minority deputies who sit as members on the National
People's Congress Standing Committee.
The National People's Congress shall elect, and have the power to remove from office, the members of the
National People's Congress Standing Committee.
Members of the National People's Congress Standing Committee shall not hold office in an administrative,
supervisory, adjudicatory or procuratorial organ of the state.
Article 66 Each National People's Congress Standing Committee shall have the same term of office as that of
the National People's Congress; it shall exercise its functions and powers until a new Standing Committee is
elected by the next National People's Congress.
The chairperson and vice chairpersons of the Standing Committee shall serve no more than two consecutive
terms.
Article 67 The National People's Congress Standing Committee shall exercise the following functions and
powers:
(1) interpreting the Constitution and overseeing its enforcement;
(2) enacting and amending laws other than those that should be enacted by the National People's Congress;
(3) when the National People's Congress is out of session, partially supplementing and amending laws
enacted by the National People's Congress but without conflicting with the basic principles of those laws;
(4) interpreting laws;
(5) when the National People's Congress is out of session, reviewing and approving partial adjustments to the
plan for national economic and social development and the state budget that must be made in the course of
implementation;
(6) overseeing the work of the State Council, the Central Military Commission, the National Commission of
Supervision, the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate;
(7) revoking administrative regulations, decisions and orders formulated by the State Council that are in
conflict with the Constitution or laws;
(8) revoking local regulations and resolutions formulated by the state organs of power in provinces,
autonomous regions and cities directly under central government jurisdiction that are in conflict with the
Constitution, laws, or administrative regulations;
(9) when the National People's Congress is out of session, deciding, based on nominations by the premier of
the State Council, on successful candidates for ministers of ministries, ministers of commissions, the auditor
general and the secretary general of the State Council;
(10) when the National People's Congress is out of session, deciding, based on nominations by the
chairperson of the Central Military Commission, on successful candidates for other members of the Central
Military Commission;
(11) appointing or removing, based on recommendations by the chairperson of the National Commission of
Supervision, vice chairpersons and members of the National Commission of Supervision;
(12) appointing or removing, based on recommendations by the president of the Supreme People's Court,
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