Regional Controls Merger Omnibus Act
1. This Act enters the text of Appendix I, and Annex I as an attachment to it, into law as the Delegate and Regional Controls Act.
2. The Assembly declares that the Delegate and Regional Controls Act supercedes and effectively duplicates the intent of the following Acts, and thus instructs the Speaker to remove them in full as duplications of the legal force of the Delegate and Regional Controls Act.3. The Assembly declares that Annex I, attached to Appendix I of this Act, is equivalent to Annex I of the Flag of the Rejected Realms Act.
- A. Flag of the Rejected Realms Act
- B. Regional Tags Act
- C. World Factbook Entry Act
- D. Regional Message Board Act
- E. Regional Officers Act
See viewtopic.php?f=97&t=10030822 for original attempt.Appendix I
Delegate and Regional Controls Act
This Act defines the responsibilities of the WA Delegate regarding their use of the Regional Controls of the in-game region of The Rejected Realms.
1. The official flag shall be maintained by the Delegate as the flag of the Rejected Realms region, as defined in Article 1 of the Constitution.2. The Delegate must maintain the Rejected Realms' regional tags in accordance with this Act.
- A. The official flag of the Rejected Realms is hereby set as the flag in Annex I of this Act.
- B. The flag shall be used in all official occasions requiring its use.
- C. The Delegate is permitted to temporarily change the regional flag for cultural purposes, provided the flag does not represent another NS region or organization.
3. The Delegate is responsible for maintaining a World Factbook Entry that promotes The Rejected Realms, and in particular items and ongoing events of interest to residents.
- A. The following regional tags must not be added to the Rejected Realms: "Imperialist", "Totalitarian", "Fascist", "Monarchist", "Independent", "Invader", "Mercenary", "Patriarchal", "Jump Point" or "Puppet Storage".
- B. The following regional tags may not be removed from the Rejected Realms: "Democratic", "Regional Government", "Defender", "Offsite Forums" and "Offsite Chat".
4. The Delegate may elect to suppress content on the Regional Message Board only insofar as this suppression helps maintain a safe and open public space for other residents.
- A. The World Factbook Entry shall include a prominent link to the forums of The Rejected Realms as recognised by the Constitution, and to the official Discord server of the Rejected Realms with the server ID 214955471071608833.
- B. The World Factbook Entry must not promote a region, organisation or any other entity that The Rejected Realms is not allied with or a member of.
5. The Delegate must not appoint as a regional officer a person whose citizenship application was rejected or whose citizenship was revoked for any reason other than not having a nation in the region, and has not since gained citizenship.
- A. All residents and visitors are free to use the Regional Message Board as a common site of conversation, without malfeasance or harassment.
- B. The delegate may elect to suppress content on the Regional Message Board only insofar as this suppression helps maintain a safe and open public space for other residents; this shall include, but is not limited to:
- i. Any posts which breach the site's rules.
- ii. Advertisements.
- iii. Messages inciting an unlawful seizure of the delegacy.
- C. The Delegate may elect to extend posting privileges to nations in regions with which The Rejected Realms has an embassy.
- D. The Delegate is encouraged to publish a policy which stipulates the general circumstances under which posts may be suppressed.
Annex I
- A. The Assembly retains its Constitutional power to direct the Delegate to dismiss a regional officer, and not to appoint a person as regional officer.
- B. Regional officers, in exercising their powers, are subject to the same limitations set out in law as the Delegate.
- C. The Delegate must endeavour to ensure that, in exercising their powers, regional officers abide by NationStates rules and regional law and act in a way that represents the region well.
Responding to the last concerns in that attempt before it was abandoned, this proposal attempts to use the lightest possible touch on the original text of each of the constituent acts - breaking them up into list items, using a clause other than the first of certain acts as the act's text's parent clause in this Act such that every clause refers to a power of the Delegate but otherwise retaining order, fixing typoes (e.g. adding 'is' to "this shall include, but is not limited to:"), and consistent capitalization.
There is no intentional stylistic edit in this Act.
Further, it attempts - clumsily - to avoid acting as an omnibus repeal by distinguishing its interaction with multiple acts from a repeal by instead characterising itself as an effectively equivalent supercession.
This Act is proposed with the intention of defining the responsibilities of the Delegate in a singular Act, such that a Delegate could either be scrutinized, instructed, or briefed with reference to a single document to have a comprehensive understanding of their responsibilities in regards to their ingame presence.
The title of the Act, the "Delegate and Regional Controls Act" is meant to be comparable to that of the existing "Speaker and Procedures of the Assembly Act" to represent their similar role in defining a particular Constitutional position.
The passage of this Act would have the effect of creating a single "Regional Controls Act" which would be the sole regional law to which the Constitution's Article 4 Clause B is subject to (4.B The Delegate may use the Regional Controls and act on World Assembly proposals and resolutions as they see fit, subject to regional law). The term and its capitalization, thus, is taken from that Constitutional Clause.
It accounts for the likely passage of the current amendment to the WFE Act at vote.
