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- <text id=93CT1387>
- <title>
- Tokelau--Government
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tokelau
- Government</hdr><body>
- <list>
- <l>Names:</l>
- <l> conventional long form: none</l>
- <l> conventional short form: Tokelau</l>
- </list>
- <p>Digraph: TL
- </p>
- <p>Type: territory of New Zealand
- </p>
- <p>Capital: none; each atoll has its own administrative center
- </p>
- <p>Administrative divisions: none (territory of New Zealand)
- </p>
- <p>Independence: none (territory of New Zealand)
- </p>
- <p>Constitution: administered under the Tokelau Islands Act of
- 1948, as amended in 1970
- </p>
- <p>Legal system: British and local statutes
- </p>
- <p>National holiday: Waitangi Day, 6 February (1840) (Treaty of
- Waitangi established British sovereignty over New Zealand)
- </p>
- <p>Political parties and leaders: NA
- </p>
- <p>Suffrage: NA
- </p>
- <p>Elections: NA
- </p>
- <p>Executive branch: British monarch, administrator (appointed by
- the Minister of Foreign Affairs in New Zealand), official
- secretary
- </p>
- <p>Legislative branch: unicameral Council of Elders (Taupulega)
- on each atoll
- </p>
- <p>Judicial branch: High Court in Niue, Supreme Court in New
- Zealand
- </p>
- <p>Leaders:
- </p>
- <p> Chief of State: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952)
- </p>
- <p> Head of Government: Administrator Graham ANSELL (since NA
- 1990); Official Secretary Casimilo J. PEREZ (since NA), Office
- of Tokelau Affairs; Tokelau's governing Council will elect its
- first head of government in 1993
- </p>
- <p>Member of: SPC, WHO (associate)
- </p>
- <p>Diplomatic representation in US: none (territory of New
- Zealand)
- </p>
- <p>US diplomatic representation: none (territory of New Zealand)
- </p>
- <p>Flag: the flag of New Zealand is used
- </p></body></article></text>
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