constituteproject.org PDF generated: 28 Mar 2017, 17:22 The Governor shall appoint the Commissioners whose number may not exceed six (6), and terminate their functions. The deliberating function shall be exercised by an Island Council. The Island Council shall regulate the matters of the autonomous island through its deliberations. The Councilors of the Island shall be elected together with their substitutes (suppléants) by simple majority in single-member constituencies for a term of five years. An Act of the Union shall determine the number of the constituencies and the modalities of the vote. The number of the Councilors shall not exceed: • nine (9) for Mwali; • eleven (11) for Maoré; • nineteen (19) for N’dzuwani; • twenty-three (23) for Ngazidja. The office of Island Councilor does not give a right to remuneration. However, travel and attendance allowances may be granted to him by edict of the Governor within the limits fixed by statutory legislation. The composition, organization and functioning of the Island Council as well as the modalities and terms for the election of its members shall be determined by statutory legislation. The terms concerning the competences and the functioning of the office of Governor as well as the relations between the Governor’s office and the Island Council shall be fixed by statutory regulation. • Municipal government • Subsidiary unit government Article 7.3 The autonomous islands shall comprise territorial communities which shall freely govern themselves through elected executive and deliberating organs, in the procedures and conditions determined by the legislation of the Union. • National vs subnational laws Article 8 Union law shall take precedence over the law of the islands; it shall be executed in the whole territory of the Comoros. • Supermajority required for legislation • Subsidiary unit government Article 9 The following matters shall fall within the jurisdiction of the autonomous islands: • administration of the local communities; • organization of administrative, commercial or industrial entities and units of an island character other than State companies; • police in the cities and in the rural areas; • Fairs and markets; • distribution of island grants and scholarships; • road administration; • administration of secondary roads; • local planning with regard to the island territory; • • Comoros 2001 (rev. 2009) construction, furnishing, maintenance and management of facilities in preparatory, primary and secondary education as well as of their staff; local professional training at the elementary level; Page 7