judicial review.

The following transitional provisions shall remain in effect until their terms have been executed. Once each year the attorney general shall review the following provisions and certify to the governor which have been executed. Any provisions so certified shall be removed from this Schedule and no longer published as an attachment to the Constitution.

Section 2: Continuity of Laws. Laws in force in the Northern Mariana Islands on the day preceding the effective date of the Constitution that are consistent with the Constitution and the Covenant shall continue in force until they expire or are amended or repealed.

Section 3: Continuity of Government Employment and Operations. [Certified as executed November 28, 1983.]

Section 6: Continuity of Corporations and Licenses. Corporations incorporated or qualified to do business in the Northern Marianarespect to the distribution of public lands and shall not affect a right in property that vested under the repealed statute of limitations.

Note from the NMI Law Review Commission: The Second Constitutional Convention, Amendment 44, ratified in 1985, purported to revise this provision. That amendment was ruled invalid as an ultra vires act in Pangelinan v. Commonwealth. See talk page for info on them.

Section 13: Succession. As of the effective date of the Constitution the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands shall succeed to all rights and obligations of the previous Government of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Section 14: Approval of Constitution by the United States. [Certified as executed November 28, 1983.]

Section 15: Approval of Amendments to the Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands. [Certified as executed January 7,