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September 1: opening date of regular sessions since the 16th National Assembly
- Sep 04, 2014
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Article 47 of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea stipulates the following about regular sessions of the National Assembly:
A regular session of the National Assembly shall be convened once every year under the conditions prescribed by the Act, and extraordinary sessions of the National Assembly shall be convened at the request of the President or one fourth or more of the total members.
On the opening date of a regular session, the National Assembly Act specifies in Article 4, “The regular session shall be convened on the first day of September every year, provided that if such day falls on a legal holiday, the regular session shall be convened on the following day.”
Thus, have all regular sessions since the Constituent Assembly opened on September 1 every year?
The opening date of the parliament’s regular sessions bears a long history of constant change. From the Constituent Assembly until the 3rd National Assembly, regular sessions were convened on December 20. Then, during the 3rd Assembly, the date was changed twice: to February 20 in 1954, and then to September 1 in 1957.
The September 1 date was kept until the 9th Assembly, which switched it to September 20. Beginning in the 13th and continuing to the 15th National Assembly, regular sessions opened on September 10, but the 16th Assembly decided on September 1, and that date has remained in use until today.
As each regular session approaches, the National Assembly Speaker issues a public notice announcing the date and venue of its first meeting three days in advance, just like with an extraordinary session. A public notice does not need to be issued for the Assembly’s convention because a regular session is a statutory assembly prescribed by the Constitution, but the parliament continues the practice as a way to declare that the year’s regular session is about to commence.
A regular session of the National Assembly shall be convened once every year under the conditions prescribed by the Act, and extraordinary sessions of the National Assembly shall be convened at the request of the President or one fourth or more of the total members.
On the opening date of a regular session, the National Assembly Act specifies in Article 4, “The regular session shall be convened on the first day of September every year, provided that if such day falls on a legal holiday, the regular session shall be convened on the following day.”
Thus, have all regular sessions since the Constituent Assembly opened on September 1 every year?
The opening date of the parliament’s regular sessions bears a long history of constant change. From the Constituent Assembly until the 3rd National Assembly, regular sessions were convened on December 20. Then, during the 3rd Assembly, the date was changed twice: to February 20 in 1954, and then to September 1 in 1957.
The September 1 date was kept until the 9th Assembly, which switched it to September 20. Beginning in the 13th and continuing to the 15th National Assembly, regular sessions opened on September 10, but the 16th Assembly decided on September 1, and that date has remained in use until today.
As each regular session approaches, the National Assembly Speaker issues a public notice announcing the date and venue of its first meeting three days in advance, just like with an extraordinary session. A public notice does not need to be issued for the Assembly’s convention because a regular session is a statutory assembly prescribed by the Constitution, but the parliament continues the practice as a way to declare that the year’s regular session is about to commence.
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