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Customary Law
Papua New Guinea
- English(1) Subject to this Part, the principles and rules that formed, immediately before Independence Day, the principles and rules of common law and equity in England are adopted, and shall be applied and enforced, as part of the underlying law, except if, and to the extent that-
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(c) in their application to any particular matter they are inconsistent with custom as adopted by Part I. (Schedule 2.2)