Parliament rejected government decree laws covering Somalia’s major legal codes in June 1964.

Evidence

It is well known that the National Assembly in its sittings of June 22 and June 23, declined to support the two Decree laws forwarded by the Government. These Decree Laws were: Draft Law delegating the Government the power to issue Civil Code, a Civil Procedure Code (including Sharia Law), Health Code, a Navigation Code, integrating and implementing the Labor Code, the Criminal Procedure Code and Traffic Code. — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 881