The Interim Constitution of Nepal, 2063 (2007) - Digital Himalaya

THE INTERIM CONSTITUTION OF NEPAL, 2063 (2007)AS AMENDED BY THE FIRST TO SIXTH AMENDMENTSABOUT THIS PUBLICATIONThe Interim Constitution as published here includes the changes made by the fiveamending Acts –the Interim Constitution of Nepal (First Amendment), 2063 Chaitra 30(April 13, 2007), and the Interim Constitution of Nepal (Second Amendment), 2064Jestha 30 (June 13, 2007) the Interim Constitution of Nepal (Third Amendment) 13Poush 2064 (28 December 2007), the Interim Constitution of Nepal (Fourth Amendment)2065 Jestha 16 (May 29, 2008), the Interim Constitution of Nepal (Fifth Amendment)2065 Ashar 29 (July 13, 2008) and the Interim Constitution of Nepal (Sixth Amendment)2065 Mangsir 26 (December 11, 2008). We have indicated what the changes were (bymeans of footnotes, and by emboldening changes made in the first amendment, andemboldening and underlining those made by the second amendment and using italicswhen inserting the changes made by the third amendment). The changes made by thefourth amendment are indicated in bold italics, the changes made in the fifth amendmentare indicated by bold, italics and underlining and the changes made in the sixthAmendment are indicated by tinted and italics. Integration of the amendments wasdone by Kedar Bhattarai and Basant Subba.Another distinctive feature is that we have included a detailed table of contents: it ispossible to see which article of the Interim Constitution appears on which page.The English translation is based on that which was initially done by Mr. Uday Nepaliand his team from the Nepal Law Society. The revised version was been prepared bystaff of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit, a unit within UNDP Kathmandu. Wehave made some changes which we believe make the meaning clearer. This involvedmany hours of careful study of the Nepali original by the team of translators working inthe Constitution Advisory Support Unit office, UNDP, Kathmandu - Kedar Bhattarai,and Basant Subba – and by Surya Dhungel, and of discussion with Jill Cottrell. Usefulcomments were received from the UNMIN translation team headed by Dr. Mark Turin.We sent the translation to various other people, both Nepalese and foreigners for theircomments, and they have all stated that they believe this is a useful venture. We are verygrateful to all these people for having taken the time and trouble.We have produced it in the form of a bilingual version: in book form the Nepaliappears on the right and the English on the left hand page. This will help readers ofthe English who also understand Nepali to be sure of the meaning. We hope it willalso be helpful to translators of future constitutional documents.The text of the Interim Constitution is preceded in this book by a brief introduction to theInterim Constitution, and also by a “Simple Guide to the Interim Constitution", intendedfor members of the public who want to understand something about the document, butfor whom the original text is too time-consuming to read. Maybe some people will feelable to tackle the full document after reading the “Simple Guide".4The content of this volume is also available on the UNDP Support to ConstitutionMaking website (http://www.undp.org.np/constitutionbuilding/constitutionnepal/contitutionfile/Interim_Constitution_bilingual.pdf).