constituteproject.org • Head of government removal • Establishment of constitutional court • Supermajority required for legislation PDF generated: 28 Mar 2017, 17:22 Article 30 In the case of high treason the President, the Vice Presidents and the members of the Government shall be brought before the Supreme Court sitting as High Court of Justice. An Institutional Act shall determine the composition of the High Court, the rules for its functioning and the procedures applicable before it. TITLE IV: RELATIONS BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE POWER AND THE EXECUTIVE POWER Article 31 • Duty to pay taxes • Right to own property • Electoral districts • Duty to serve in the military • Protection from expropriation In addition to the matters assigned to them by other articles of the Constitution, Union statutes shall determine the rules concerning: • civic rights and the fundamental guarantees granted to citizens for the exercise of their civil liberties; the obligations imposed upon the person and property of citizens; • the law governing associations and political parties and the status of the opposition; • nationality, the status and capacity of persons, family law, inheritance and gifts; • the determination of serious crimes and other major offences and the penalties they carry; criminal procedure; amnesty; the setting up of new categories of courts; • the base, rates and methods of collection of all types of taxes; the issuing of currency. Statutes shall also determine the rules governing: • the administration of customs services; • the management of State lands and of the land registry; • the management of publicly funded companies; • systems of ownership, property rights and civil and commercial obligations; • the system for electing Members of the Assembly of the Union; • the setting up of categories of public legal entities; • the status of civil servants and members of the Armed Forces and the fundamental guarantees granted to them; • nationalization of companies and the transfer of ownership of companies from the public to the private sector; • expropriations in the public interest. Statutes shall lay down the basic principles of: • the general organization of defense and national security; • the general organization of the administrative, social and financial investigation authorities; • education and national public diploma; • information and the new information technologies. Article 32 Matters other than those coming under the scope of statute law shall be matters for regulation. Comoros 2001 (rev. 2009) Page 15