Level of Entrenchment of the Provisions of the Constitution

DL	SS. 1 – 17	Chapter I: Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
DL	Section 18	Establishment of Office of President
LL	SS. 19 – 27	Provisions relating to the Office of President
DL	Section 28	Acting President
DL	SS. 29 – 30	Composition of Parliament
LL	SS. 31 – 32	Qualifications and Disqualifications for Members of Parliament
DL	Section 33	Election of Representatives
LL	SS. 34 – 37	Appointment/election of senators, tenure of members, speaker, deputy speaker
DL	Section 38	Responsibility for elections
LL	Section 39	Clerk of the House
DL	Section 40	Determination of Questions of Membership of the House
DL	Section 41	Power to make laws
DL	Section 42	Alteration of the Constitution
LL	Section 43	Freedom of speech in the House of Assembly
LL	Section 44	Oath by Members
LL	Section 45	Presiding over the House of Assembly
LL	Section 46	Voting in the House of Assembly
LL	Section 47	Vacancy in the House of Assembly
LL	Section 48	Penalty for sitting, if unqualified
DL	Section 49	Mode of exercise of legislative power
LL	Section 50	Restrictions on certain financial measures
LL	Section 51	Scrutiny of electoral legislation
DL	Section 52	Regulation of Procedure in the House of Assembly
DL	Section 53	Sessions of Parliament
DL	Section 54	Prorogation and dissolution of Parliament
DL	Section 55	Holding of Elections
DL	Section 56	Constituency Boundaries and Electoral Commissions
DL	Section 57	Review of Constituency Boundaries
DL	Section 58	Executive authority of the State
LL	Section 59	Ministers of Government
LL	Section 60	Cabinet of Ministers
LL	Section 61	Allocation of Portfolios to Ministers
LL	Section 62	Performance of functions of Ministers during absence or illness
LL	Section 63	Exercise of President’s functions
LL	Section 64	President to be informed concerning matters of Government
LL	Section 65	Oaths to be taken by Ministers
LL	Section 66	Leader of the Opposition
LL	Section 67	Parliamentary Secretaries
LL	Section 68	Permanent Secretaries
LL	Section 69	Secretary to the Cabinet
LL	Section 70	Constitution of Offices for Dominica
LL	Section 71	Attorney General
DL	Section 72	Control of Public Prosecutions
LL	Section 73	Prerogative of Mercy
LL	Section 74	Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy
LL	Section 75	Functions of the Advisory Committee
DL	SS. 76 – 83	Chapter V - Finance
DL	Section 84	Public Service Commission
DL	Section 85	Appointment of Public Officers
DL	Section 86	Appointment of Permanent Secretaries etc.
DL	Section 87	Chief Elections Officer
DL	Section 88	Director of Public Prosecutions
DL	Section 89	Director of Audit
DL	Section 90	Magistrates, Registrars and Legal Officers
DL	Section 91	Police Service Commission
DL	Section 92	Appointment etc. of Police Officers
LL	Section 93	Public Service Board of Appeal
LL	Section 94	Appeals in discipline cases
DL	Section 95	Pension laws and protection of pensions
DL	Section 96	Power to withhold pensions
LL	SS. 97 – 102	Chapter VII - Citizenship
DL	SS. 103 – 107	Chapter VIII - Judicial Provisions
DL	SS. 108 – 115	Chapter IX - Parliamentary Commissioner
LL	Section 116	Declaration of Republic
LL	Section 117	Supreme Law
LL	Section 118	Functions of President
LL	Section 119	Resignations
LL	Section 120	Re-appointment and concurrent appointments
DL	Section 121	Interpretation (in its application to any of the DL provisions)
DL	Schedule 1
LL	Schedule 2
LL	Schedule 3
LL	Provisions that have a lower level of entrenchment. In order to secure their alteration: the Bill must be supported, on its final reading in the House of Assembly by the votes of not less than two-thirds of all the elected members of the House; there must be an interval of not less than ninety days between the introduction of the Bill in the House of Assembly and the beginning of the proceedings in the House on the second reading of the Bill, and the Speaker must certify to the President that steps (a) and (b) have been duly observed.
DL	Provisions that have a deeper level of entrenchment. In order to secure their alteration the Bill must be supported on its final reading in the House of Assembly by the votes of not less than three-quarters of all the elected members of the House; there must be an interval of not less than ninety days between the introduction of the Bill in the House of Assembly and the beginning of the proceedings in the House on the second reading of the Bill; before being presented to the President for signature, after it has been passed by the House, the Bill must have been approved by a majority of the votes cast in a referendum, and the Speaker must certify to the President that steps (a), (b) and (c) have been duly observed.

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