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The Constitution sets out the framework within which all state
organs at various levels have powers to enact laws commensurate
with their status and legitimate spheres of influence.
The National People's Congress has legislative rights:
- to make amendments to the Constitution (proposed either by the
Standing Committee or by more than one-fifth of the NPC deputies
and to be adopted they require a majority of not less than
two-thirds of the deputies)
- to enact and amend the basic criminal and civil law;
- to enact and amend the basic laws concerning the organization
of the organs of state;
- to enact and amend other basic laws including those relating to
elections, nationality and marriage.
The NPC Standing Committee has legislative rights:
- to enact and amend statutes (other than those reserved for NPC
action);
- to enact supplements and amendments to statutes as enacted by
the National People's Congress (limited to times when the NPC
itself is not in session and subject to them not running counter to
the basic principles of the statutes);
- to interpret the Constitution and laws;
- to annul any administrative rule, regulation, decision or order
of the State Council found to contravene the Constitution or the
statutes of the state'
- to annul any local regulation or decision of an organ of state
power at the provincial level that contravenes the Constitution,
statues or administrative rules and regulations of the state.
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