The World Assembly Procedures Act (2014)
An act to establish World Assembly Procedure and clarify the responsibilities of the World Assembly Delegate.
Short Title(1) This act may be referred to as The WA Procedures Act (2014).
Recognition of WA Delegate's Position and Selection(2) The World Assembly Delegate on NationStates (herein ‘WA Delegate’) is determined by the nation who has the most number of endorsements or, where two nations share the same number of endorsements and one is the incumbent WA Delegate, the incumbent WA Delegate.
(3) Any nation wishing to become WA Delegate must be able to demonstrate that they have had a nation in The Independent Order for a minimum time period of seven (7) days and that they have made a minimum of six (6) non-spam forum posts, before posting a notification in the World Assembly subforum of the Regional Assembly.
(4) Any nation unable to demonstrate the qualifications in Section (3), or who have not posted a notification in the World Assembly subforum of the Regional Assembly, shall be limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) endorsements. Any nation with more than fifteen (15) endorsements may be kicked by the Grand Chancellor, or banned for repeated offences.
Casting General Assembly and Security Council Votes(5) The WA Delegate must vote in accordance with the majority opinion of members of the Independent Order.
(6) ‘Majority opinion’ shall be determined by number of votes cast by Independent WA Members on a given resolution.
(7) Where there is no majority opinion of members, then they may cast a vote based upon their own conscience.
(8) The WA Delegate may vote against the majority opinion if authorised to do so by a motion in Regional Assembly.
(9) Should the majority opinion change, then the WA Delegate must, if possible, amend their vote.