CHAPTER XXII REGIONAL LEGISLATION

1. The regulation and administration of the domestic affairs of the district shall be left to the district council.
2. The district council shall make the district-ordinances which it considers necessary in the interest of the district subject to the limits of the Constitution and the laws and administrative measures of the Government. It shall be indicated by law wi th regard to which subjects the district councils shall have legislative powers.

1. The district-ordinances shall be notified to the National Assembly, the Government, the Council of State in the local District Commissioner, before they become effective.
2. The population of the district shall be informed about the contents of the district ordinances through their publication in local newspapers and in the Official Journal of the Republic of Suriname and by keeping them available for reading at the offic e of the District commissioner.

Article 172

1. If a district ordinance is contrary to the Constitution, the government programme or the existing laws, the National Assembly can annul it.
2. The district council shall have the power to commence the procedure of making the district ordinance effective and of promulgating it, in a manner that shall be decide by law, if the National Assembly has notified the district council in writing withi n six weeks after the district ordinance was submitted to it, that no complaints were lodged with it.

1. The measures taken by the district council which do not contain general rules, shall and under strict supervision exercised by the Government. If those measures are considered to be contrary to the government program the Government shall propose thei r suspension to the Council of State.
2. If, after the suspension by the Council of State, the district council in question should think that there is no violation of the government program or the national interest, the dispute is submitted to the National Assembly, which makes a final bindi ng decision.