iTaukei Governance - Fiji Political Review

Vanua

iTaukei Land Legislation and Vanua Consent: The Framework the Constitution Delegates

The 2013 Constitution protects iTaukei land ownership. It says nothing about who decides what happens on it. That work sits in the iTaukei Land Trust Act 1940 and the Land Use Decree 2010 — instruments that vest control in state bodies. The vanua owns. The Board decides.

Vanua

Ceremony as Constitution: The Tui Nayau and the Limits of Written Sovereignty

The Tui Nayau's authority is not delegated by the Fijian state. It predates the Fijian state. It has continued through every constitutional order the Fijian state has produced.

Analysis

The Bar and the Exemption

Rabuka sits in the reconstituted Great Council of Chiefs as Prime Minister. He also leads the People's Alliance. Regulation 6(d) doesn't touch him.