Section II - Acting Ministers can serve a total of 21 days at which point if the Senate hasn't confirmed a nominee to that position it becomes vacant until a nominee is confirmed by the Senate

Section III - The 21 day period during which an Acting Minister may serve begins upon the opening of a vacancy due to resignation, firing, or removal by other means

Section IV - Acting Ministers may be dismissed by the Prime Minister or through a motion approved by a simple majority of the Senate

Section V - Acting Ministers shall have the same powers and duties as any Senate confirmed Minister for the duration of their tenure

Section VI - The Prime Minister must nominate a new Minister within 14 days of when a vacancy occurs unless the Ministry is not mandated by law, in which the Prime Minister may alternatively choose to dissolve the Ministry at their discretion.

Sub-section I - The 21 day period where an Acting Minister can serve begins from when the Prime Minister takes the oath of office.

• Section I - The passage of this bill constitutes the repeal of L.R.061 Assembly of Roleplay Act (2022).

• Section I - There shall be an established Assembly of Roleplay, comprised entirely of the citizen nations of Thaecia. The Assembly of Roleplay shall function as a body that may write, draft, and vote on legislation. Legislation shall be considered passed if it receives a simple majority of votes in favour.

  • Section Ia - Any legislation passed by the Assembly of Roleplay (known henceforth as RP Legislation) shall have no legal effect outside of said Assembly.

• Section II - The Assembly of Roleplay shall be led by the Assembly Leader (ASL), who shall have the power to organise debates, amendments, and votes. The ASL shall be elected by a vote amongst the citizens upon the initiation of a challenge for the position. Upon the initiation of a successful challenge, a 48 hour candidacy declaration period begins; the incumbent Assembly Leader and the petition's author are automatically candidates, but may withdraw during this 48 hours. Following the conclusion of the candidacy period, a voting period of a minimum of 48 hours begins to elect the new ASL. The challenge shall be overseen by the Electoral Commissioner.

  • Section IIa - A challenge may be initiated by any citizen by submitting a petition sponsored by at minimum 5 citizens to the Electoral Commissioner. If the position of ASL is vacant, only one citizen needs to sponsor the petition.

  • Section IIb - An incumbent ASL may not be challenged for a period of 14 days following their successful election to the position.

  • Section IIc - The resignation of an ASL does not automatically initiate a challenge.

  • Section IIbd - The Electoral Commissioner may not serve as ASL.

• Section III - The Assembly of Roleplay may provide further procedures for its own functioning by means of RP Legislation.

• Section I - The food product known as "yogurt", and any linguistic variations thereof, shall be defined as a milk-based food product obtained by the fermentation of either homogenized or non-homogenized denatured milk by bacterial cultures, and which shall have an approximate viscosity between 1,790 centipoise (cP) and 2,150 centipoise (cP) at room temperature.

  • Section Ia - The legally construed definition of yogurt shall be considered of enough legal authority and force to have this legislation considered active IC legislation.

• Section I - The Thaecian Executive branch shall have the ability to create the Thaecian Dairy Commission (TDC), which shall be placed under the Domestic Affairs Ministry and tasked with testing all Thaecian-produced yogurt to ensure that it meets the above viscosity guidelines.

• Section II: The TDC shall be led by a Thaecian Dairy Commissioner, who shall supervise one Deputy Commissioner and at least one Assistant Commissioner.

• Section III: Every two months, the TDC is encouraged to submit a "Thaecian Dairy Report" to Congress, so that the legislative branch can be kept aware of efforts to ensure safety for Thaecian Yogurt consumers.

• Section IV - The TDC should create a registry of yogurts that have a historical link to the culture of Thaecia and ensure the registry is detailed so that it preserves the intangible cultural heritage of yogurt.

• Section I - Products may not be labelled for sale as yogurt if they do not fit the definition in Article I Section I, unless they are not expected to be served at room temperature.

• Section I - For the purposes of this legislation, hereby defines:

  1. codified government official - any nation occupying a Ministerial position or otherwise a position specified in Thaecian law.

  2. congressional business - a bill or a motion that may pass through Congress to become legally binding.

• Section I - Petitions may either:

  1. request a codified government official(s) to take an action,

  2. request one or both chambers of Congress to debate and vote on a piece of congressional business,

  3. request both a codified government official(s) to take an action and for Congress to debate and vote on a piece of congressional business,

• Section II - Petitions containing congressional business do not require said business to be sponsored by a representative, including whilst said business is in Congress.

• Section III - Petitions aimed at a codified government official must ensure that said government official(s) is made aware of that petition publicly to be considered valid; petitions aimed at one or both chambers of Congress must publicly make aware the respective Chamber leadership of the petition to be considered valid.

• Section I - Any Thaecian citizen may create and sign a petition; only Thaecian citizens may do so. A petition author must not intentionally insert signatures from non-Thaecian citizens into a petition; otherwise the petition shall be considered invalid.

  • Section Ia - Citizens are entitled to sign their own petitions if they wish.

• Section II - Petitions must be authored by a citizen of Thaecia in order to be considered valid.

• Section III - If the author of a petition loses Thaecian citizenship after it has been created but before it has attained the appropriate requisite number of valid signatures within seven (7) days of its creation, the petition is considered invalid.

• Section IV - If a signature to a petition loses Thaecian citizenship after it has been created but before it has attained the appropriate requisite number of valid signatures within seven (7) days of its creation, their signature to the petition is invalidated; if the signature did not have Thaecian citizenship in the first place, their signature is considered invalid but the petition is not considered invalid; their signature shall automatically become valid if they attain Thaecian citizenship.

• Section I - For a petition to be considered valid, it must fulfil the requirements set out within this legislation; a petition is considered invalid if any of the given invalidations throughout this legislation occur; for a position to be considered failed it must have attained less than attained the appropriate requisite number of valid signatures within seven (7) days of its creation or had its propositions denied by its targeted codified government official(s), or defeated in a Congressional vote, depending on which is applicable.

• Section II - An invalid or failed petition does not have to be responded to by its targets even if it attains the requisite number of legally valid signatures to be responded to in an ordinary situation; a petition that is valid and does the same must be responded to by its targets.

  • Section IIa - If a petition's requests are met before it attains attained the appropriate requisite number of valid signatures within seven (7) days of its creation, the petition is considered invalid unless those requests are subsequently reversed.

• Section III - If a petition is invalidated, it must be restarted - petitions cannot lose an invalid status except as per 070.4.2.1; if a petition is failed it may not be substantially replicated until one (1) month has passed after its failure.

• Section IV - If the author of a petition or signature of said petition deemed invalid by its targets believes the petition was not invalid, or believes it was unfairly rejected as per 070.6.1, they may challenge this in the High Court through a legal inquiry.

  • Section IVa - If the High Court overturns the invalidation or rejection of a petition, and that petition meets the requisite number of valid signatures within seven (7) days of the Court's decision, it must be addressed by is target within a timely manner.

• Section I - Petitions aimed at legally codified government officials that attain ten (10) signatures within seven (7) days of its creation must be addressed by said officials or otherwise the petitions requests publicly adopted, within a timely manner.

• Section II - Petitions submitting congressional business that attain twelve (12) signatures within seven (7) days of its creation must be debated and subsequently voted on by Congress after present business has concluded, unless Congress has entered electoral recess, or the next business is a recall as per VI.II or a motion of no confidence as per IV.III.II - once Congress has left recess and a Chamber leader has been elected, and once these businesses have concluded, the petition must be the immediate next business.

• Section III - If multiple petitions submitting congressional business have attained twelve signatures within seven (7) days of their creation, they must each be debated one after the other barring for business as per 070.5.2; the following is the order of precedence for petitions:

  1. the amount of signatures the petition has,

  2. the date and time on which the petition was authored,

  3. random number generation,

• Section IV - A petition submitting congressional business may not be tabled by Chamber leadership until its final vote has concluded.

• Section I - A petition that has attained the appropriate requisite number of valid signatures within seven (7) days of its creation may be rejected and ignored by its targets if it is invalid, failed, or:

  1. violates NationStates rules,

  2. asks the target to take an unconstitutional action, illegal action, or for the target to waive their constitutional rights,

  3. was clearly intended as satire, for humorous purposes, or to waste the time of the targets,

  4. asks the targets to do something that is already in place, or has been covered within the previous one (1) month,

• Section I - Petition authors that violate 070.3.1 shall be considered guilty of an offence at the level of an Infraction as per 044.9, and should be punished in the same manner.

• Section II - Petition targets that violate 070.4.4.1 shall be considered guilty of an offence at the level of a Felony (Contempt of Court) as per 044.9, and should be punished in the same manner.

• Section III - Government officials that violate 070.5.1 and Chamber leaders that violate 070.5.2 shall be considered guilty of an offence at the level of a Misdemeanour as per 044.9, and should be punished in the same manner.

• Section I - The passage of this bill constitutes the repeal of L.R. 041 Thaecia Petitioning Act (2020).