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Petitions and Appeals
- General ideas of Petitions
- The right of petition is historically the most time-honored traditional right among the people's rights guaranteed by civil law-governed country, which is specified and stipulated in Article 26 of the Korean Constitution. The petition right is exercised by the way of expressing a certain opinion or hope to a national agency in writing and it is a kind of people's right to resort to relief when their right or interest was infringed.
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![6. Unaccepted matters
① Contents interfering with law proceedings
② In case of violating laws and regulations
③ Sacrilegious practices of the chief of the state or state agencies
④ Dual petition: In case a petition with the same contents[the same main points in contents though not the same in the reason]is submitted to the same agency more than twice or more than two agencies, the petition received later cannot be accepted.
※ Penal provisions: A petition with false facts plotting a harm to others](../../images/english/2petition_itemC6.gif "6. Unaccepted matters
① Contents interfering with law proceedings
② In case of violating laws and regulations
③ Sacrilegious practices of the chief of the state or state agencies
④ Dual petition: In case a petition with the same contents[the same main points in contents though not the same in the reason]is submitted to the same agency more than twice or more than two agencies, the petition received later cannot be accepted.
※ Penal provisions: A petition with false facts plotting a harm to others")
![12. Report to a chairman
- The petition adopted by voting at the committee is to be reported to a chairman with an attachment of stated opinions specifying the agency[a magistrate
※ In case of a petition which should be dealt with at the council, the statement of opinions should be written out including disposal methods.
(In time of need of the establishment and revision of ordinances, proposal for bills for ordinances, etc)
- A petition decided by a committee as unnecessary to bring up at the general meeting is reported to a chairman with a specified comment on the reason for non-adoption in the deliberation results and then a chairman reports it at the general council.
※ Reasons for non-adoption: In case of already achieved matters which a petition suggests, a matter to be impossible to be realized in reality due to budgetary situation, and a matter going beyond the boundary of enforcing policy, and lacking in feasibility, the petition may not be adopted.
- Within the 7 days[adjourning, and shutdown period excepted] after the report of not bringing up a petition at the general meeting, and in time of request of a chairman or more than one-third of the members on the register, and a petition wasn't deliberated within the disposal period for brought up bills at the general meeting, a request for extending deliberation period with an intermediate report should be informed.](../../images/english/2petition_itemC12.gif "12. Report to a chairman
- The petition adopted by voting at the committee is to be reported to a chairman with an attachment of stated opinions specifying the agency[a magistrate
※ In case of a petition which should be dealt with at the council, the statement of opinions should be written out including disposal methods.
(In time of need of the establishment and revision of ordinances, proposal for bills for ordinances, etc)
- A petition decided by a committee as unnecessary to bring up at the general meeting is reported to a chairman with a specified comment on the reason for non-adoption in the deliberation results and then a chairman reports it at the general council.
※ Reasons for non-adoption: In case of already achieved matters which a petition suggests, a matter to be impossible to be realized in reality due to budgetary situation, and a matter going beyond the boundary of enforcing policy, and lacking in feasibility, the petition may not be adopted.
- Within the 7 days[adjourning, and shutdown period excepted] after the report of not bringing up a petition at the general meeting, and in time of request of a chairman or more than one-third of the members on the register, and a petition wasn't deliberated within the disposal period for brought up bills at the general meeting, a request for extending deliberation period with an intermediate report should be informed.")
