Chief Pleas

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Chief Pleas is the parliament and legislative assembly of the Channel Island of Sark, responsible for making its laws and overseeing local governance.

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Chief Pleas canonical 1
Speaker of Chief Pleas 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf legislative assembly
parliament
unicameral legislature
appliesToJurisdiction Sark
canSubmit laws for Royal Assent via the Privy Council
country Sark
governs Sark
hasCommittee Policy and Finance Committee of Sark
hasElectoralDistrict single island-wide constituency of Sark
hasFunction administration of Sark government
budget approval
legislation
local policy oversight
hasHistoricalComposition feudal assembly including Tenants and Deputies
hasLegalStatus subordinate legislature under the Crown in right of Guernsey
hasLegislativeAuthorityOver domestic affairs of Sark
hasMemberType conseiller
hasNumberOfHouses 1
hasNumberOfMembers 28
hasOfficialLanguage English
hasPower to approve Sark budget
to levy taxes in Sark
to make laws for Sark
to oversee local governance in Sark
hasTypeOfMembers elected members
unelected office-holding members
hasVotingSystem plurality block voting
headOfGovernment Chairman of the Policy and Finance Committee of Sark
isPartOf constitutional framework of the Bailiwick of Guernsey
isSubjectTo oversight of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
isUnderSovereigntyOf British Crown
legalSystemType customary law influenced by Norman law
legislativeBodyFor Sark
locatedIn Guernsey
surface form: Bailiwick of Guernsey

Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
surface form: Channel Islands

Sark
meetsFrequency several times per year
meetsIn Sark
partOf Guernsey
surface form: Bailiwick of Guernsey
presidingOfficer Chief Pleas self-linksurface differs
surface form: Speaker of Chief Pleas
reformedBy Sark Reform Law 2008
transitionedTo largely democratically elected body in 2008
uses ordinances and laws as legislative instruments

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Sark governingBody Chief Pleas
Chief Pleas presidingOfficer Chief Pleas self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Speaker of Chief Pleas