COMPNOR Organization and Public Service Act

Part I: Preliminary

Section 1. Short Title and Commencement

(1) This Act may be cited as the COMPNOR Organization and Public Service Act.

(2) This Act came into force in 1 AIA, being the first year of the Galactic Empire.

Section 2. Constitutional Basis

This Act is made in exercise of the authority reserved to Imperial law by the Imperial Charter, and particularly the provisions establishing the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order as the principal civic, educational, and political institution of the Galactic Empire.

Section 3. Purposes

The purposes of this Act are to preserve lawful continuity from the Republic; to give organized expression to the principles of the New Order; to strengthen civic virtue, public service, unity, security, justice, order, and prosperity; and to ensure that the institutions charged with those duties possess defined authority and remain accountable to Imperial law.

Section 4. Interpretation

(1) In this Act:

(a) "Commission" and "COMPNOR" mean the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order;

(b) "COMPOR" means the Commission for the Preservation of the Republic and any lawfully constituted predecessor organization concerned with the preservation and stability of the Republic;

(c) "Select Committee" means the governing body established by section 8;

(d) "CompForce" means the military and paramilitary arm of COMPNOR;

(e) "ISB" and "Bureau" mean the Imperial Security Bureau;

(f) "deployment instrument" means an Imperial Edict, order of the Ruling Council, military attachment order, or other written authority valid under Imperial law that identifies the mission, command, territorial extent, and duration of a CompForce deployment;

(g) "competent authority" means a court, ministry, commander, law-enforcement body, territorial government, or Imperial officer possessing lawful jurisdiction over the matter concerned;

(h) "IOCI" means the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations within the Ministry of Security.

(2) A reference in this Act to the Imperial Legal Code includes any lawful amendment or successor code.

Part II: The Commission

Section 5. Continuation and Reconstitution

(1) COMPOR is continued and reconstituted as the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order.

(2) The property, records, obligations, lawful appointments, and continuing programs of COMPOR vest in COMPNOR without further conveyance.

(3) A regulation, appointment, or undertaking inherited under subsection (2) continues only so far as it is consistent with the Imperial Charter and this Act.

Section 6. Character of COMPNOR

(1) COMPNOR is the official civic and political movement of the Galactic Empire and a chartered Imperial institution.

(2) It may function as a political association, a state-sponsored civic organization, and an organized public movement, but shall exercise governmental or coercive authority only where that authority is conferred by the Charter, this Act, another Act, Imperial Edict, or lawful delegation.

(3) Membership is voluntary. Membership or non-membership shall not by itself determine citizenship, access to public employment, eligibility for military service, or the exercise of a right secured by the Charter.

Section 7. General Functions

COMPNOR may:

(a) advocate policy, support legislation, endorse candidates, and organize lawful political campaigns;

(b) conduct civic, educational, cultural, youth, professional, and public-service programs;

(c) establish branches, chapters, academies, affiliated bodies, and professional organizations;

(d) study social, political, administrative, cultural, economic, and security conditions throughout the Empire;

(e) submit findings and proposals to the Throne, Ruling Council, Senate, ministries, courts, territorial authorities, or other competent institutions;

(f) accept appropriations, property, grants, subscriptions, and lawful voluntary contributions; and

(g) perform any further function assigned by Imperial law.

Section 8. Select Committee

(1) The Select Committee is established as the governing body of COMPNOR.

(2) The Select Committee consists of a Chairman appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the Emperor, together with the heads of the Coalition for Improvements, Coalition for Progress, Sub-Adult Group, CompForce, and Imperial Security Bureau.

(3) The Chairman may invite ministers, governors, military officers, judicial representatives, branch officials, and technical advisers to attend upon business affecting their jurisdictions, but an invited person does not thereby become a member.

(4) The Select Committee is responsible to the Emperor and the Imperial Ruling Council.

Section 9. Powers of the Select Committee

The Select Committee may establish Commission policy; issue binding internal directives; approve budgets and Commission-wide programs; appoint subordinate officers where law does not provide otherwise; coordinate constituent organizations; resolve overlapping mandates; inspect performance; and submit policy or legislative proposals to competent Imperial institutions.

Section 10. Limitations of the Select Committee

(1) The Select Committee governs COMPNOR and not the Galactic Empire.

(2) It shall not enact Imperial law, levy taxation, determine criminal guilt, reverse a court, direct an Imperial ministry outside lawful delegation, or place an armed service under COMPNOR command.

(3) A directive of the Select Committee is subordinate to the Charter, Acts of the Imperial Senate, Imperial Edicts, and lawful orders of the Emperor or Ruling Council.

Section 11. Relationship with Public Institutions

(1) A Senator, minister, public officer, military member, professional, or other citizen may cooperate with, affiliate with, or support COMPNOR without becoming a formal member.

(2) COMPNOR membership does not displace an officer's oath, statutory duty, chain of command, professional obligation, or responsibility to the institution in which that officer serves.

(3) No COMPNOR body may claim the power of a ministry, court, military command, police service, or territorial government merely because its members serve within that institution.

Part III: Civic and Public-Service Organizations

Section 12. Coalition for Improvements

(1) The Coalition for Improvements shall conduct long-term political, administrative, social, and institutional development throughout the Empire.

(2) Its work may include Sector Development, Modification, and Redesign programs, including comprehensive reconstruction within former Separatist territories and other regions suffering institutional failure.

(3) The Coalition may plan, advise, coordinate, inspect, and administer programs lawfully entrusted to it. It shall not compel a territorial government or private person except under authority specifically granted by law or valid delegation.

Section 13. Coalition for Progress

(1) The Coalition for Progress shall organize civic and professional participation in the advancement of the New Order.

(2) It may maintain Sector Monitors and Groups concerned with Art, Commerce, Education, Justice, and Science.

(3) The Coalition may publish assessments, advocate policy, organize public campaigns, support legislation, and transmit evidence or specialist advice to competent authorities.

(4) A published assessment does not by itself prohibit a work, impose a penalty, revoke a license, or determine a legal right.

Section 14. Sub-Adult Group

(1) The Sub-Adult Group is established as COMPNOR's voluntary, uniformed youth organization.

(2) It may maintain Education, Recreation, Motivation, and Recruitment branches and may conduct civic instruction, drill, organized service, physical training, fieldcraft, technical education, competition, and preparation for adult Imperial service.

(3) Enrollment shall comply with applicable family and planetary law. No minor shall be bound to future military or public service by reason of membership.

(4) The Sub-Adult Group may recommend qualified members to academies, the civil service, COMPNOR, CompForce, and the Armed Forces, but shall not guarantee appointment, enlistment, or commission.

(5) A minor shall not be deployed in combat, employed as a police officer or clandestine informant, subjected to hazing or cruelty, or given unsupervised access to weapons.

Section 15. Public-Service Appointments

(1) Service in COMPNOR or an affiliated body may be considered as evidence of experience, training, and public commitment in a lawful appointment process.

(2) No appointment authority is required to appoint a COMPNOR member, and no person is disqualified solely by non-membership.

(3) A COMPNOR office shall not sell, promise, or exchange public appointment, contract, regulatory favor, or access to protected information for political support or membership.

Part IV: CompForce

Section 16. Establishment and Organization

(1) CompForce is established as the military and paramilitary arm of COMPNOR, distinct from the regular Imperial Armed Forces.

(2) CompForce shall consist of Observation and Assault branches and such administrative, training, logistical, and reserve bodies as the Select Committee may establish consistently with this Act.

(3) The Allegiant General commands CompForce under the Select Committee. The Allegiant General does not by that office possess command over any branch of the Imperial Armed Forces.

Section 17. Membership and Training

(1) CompForce personnel shall be adult volunteers accepted under published political, medical, professional, and security standards.

(2) Membership in the Sub-Adult Group creates neither a duty to serve nor automatic admission.

(3) Personnel entrusted with arms, detention authority, or military duties shall receive training appropriate to the mission, including instruction in lawful orders, rules of engagement, evidence, prisoners, and the use of force.

Section 18. CompForce Observation

(1) Observation may second officers openly to Imperial military commands to observe readiness, morale, discipline, political reliability, lawful command, and regard for the principles of the New Order.

(2) An Observer may inspect records and attend proceedings only within the authority of the secondment order.

(3) An Observer does not enter the receiving command's tactical chain of command and shall not countermand a commander, interrogate a suspect, conduct covert surveillance of the assigned unit, or impose punishment.

(4) Observation service may qualify an officer for later transfer or appointment, but creates no entitlement to a military commission or other office.

Section 19. CompForce Assault

(1) Assault may maintain active formations and mobilization reserves for front-line support, defense of essential sites, protection of relief operations, reinforcement of threatened installations, and stabilization duties.

(2) Assault shall not perform ordinary civil patrol or general police duties.

(3) A formation certified for military support shall meet readiness standards agreed with the Ministry of War.

Section 20. Deployment Authority

(1) CompForce has no general police power and shall undertake a coercive operation only under a valid deployment instrument or other express authority of Imperial law.

(2) A deployment instrument shall identify, so far as circumstances permit, the mission, responsible command, territorial extent, duration, permitted authorities, and rules governing force.

(3) Where immediate action is necessary to protect life against an imminent armed threat, the senior CompForce officer present may act within the ordinary law of necessity, but shall seek written confirmation from competent authority without delay.

Section 21. Operational Control

(1) A CompForce formation attached to an Imperial military operation passes under the operational control of the receiving commander for the duration and purpose of that attachment.

(2) CompForce retains personnel administration, internal discipline, and institutional identity except as the deployment instrument otherwise lawfully provides.

(3) Outside military attachment, operational command shall rest with the authority named in the deployment instrument.

Section 22. Arrest, Search, Detention, and Force

(1) CompForce personnel may arrest, search, seize, or detain only where the power is conferred by law, a warrant, military authority applicable to the deployment, or the deployment instrument acting within a lawful delegation.

(2) Force shall be no more than reasonably necessary and proportionate to the lawful mission.

(3) A detained person and seized evidence shall be transferred promptly to the competent civil or military authority.

(4) Nothing in this Part authorizes punishment, interrogation, indefinite detention, or the displacement of judicial review.

Section 23. Discipline and Accountability

(1) CompForce personnel remain subject to the Imperial Legal Code and, when attached to military command or otherwise placed under it by law, the applicable law of armed service.

(2) Alleged criminal conduct shall be referred to an investigative body outside the accused unit's immediate command.

(3) Operational orders, use of force, detention, casualties, and transfers of evidence or prisoners shall be recorded and preserved for review.

Part V: Imperial Security Bureau

Section 24. Continuation and Status

(1) The Imperial Security Bureau is continued as the principal internal-security service of the Galactic Empire under COMPNOR.

(2) The Bureau shall possess professional command, secure appropriations, records, facilities, and such sector or territorial offices as its Director may establish according to law.

(3) The Director of the Imperial Security Bureau is a permanent member of the Imperial Ruling Council and remains a member of the COMPNOR Select Committee.

Section 25. Leadership and Departments

(1) The Bureau is headed by a Director, assisted by a Deputy Director.

(2) The Bureau shall maintain six coequal departments, each headed by an Associate Director: Investigations, Interrogation, Surveillance, Enforcement, Re-Education, and Internal Affairs.

(3) Operations and Enforcement are parallel rank tracks and not departments or superior command bodies. An Assistant Director may administer each rank track for assignments, standards, and personnel coordination without thereby commanding the six departments.

(4) Central Commander is a rank within the Enforcement track and is not the title of the Director or head of the Bureau.

Section 26. Jurisdiction

(1) The Bureau may investigate espionage, sabotage, sedition, terrorism, infiltration, organized subversion, official disloyalty, serious compromise of Imperial security, and related offenses against the constitutional order and secure operations of the Empire.

(2) The Bureau's jurisdiction is threat-based and extends throughout Imperial territory and institutions, subject to the Charter, Imperial Legal Code, and applicable law.

(3) Lawful political disagreement, criticism, association, or non-membership in COMPNOR does not alone establish a security predicate.

Section 27. Investigations and Surveillance

(1) An ISB investigation shall rest upon an articulated security predicate, registered source information, and supervisory approval proportionate to the sensitivity of the case.

(2) Searches and seizures require a warrant or other authority recognized by the Imperial Legal Code.

(3) Surveillance shall identify its target, purpose, method, duration, and approving authority. Intrusive surveillance requires judicial or senior executive authorization as provided by law.

(4) Emergency action shall be recorded and submitted to the judicial or executive review required by the Imperial Legal Code.

Section 28. Enforcement and Custody

(1) ISB Enforcement may execute warrants, make lawful arrests, secure evidence, protect witnesses and facilities, transport high-risk detainees, and conduct authorized tactical operations.

(2) Force shall be reasonably necessary and proportionate to the lawful objective.

(3) A person arrested shall be informed of the legal basis for custody and brought before competent judicial authority within the period required by the Imperial Legal Code.

(4) Operational urgency confers no authority to punish.

Section 29. Interrogation

(1) The Interrogation Department may conduct authorized interviews, questioning, debriefing, and specialist examination in support of registered security cases.

(2) Sessions shall be documented, medically safe, and conducted by qualified personnel.

(3) Torture, unauthorized medical experimentation, punishment disguised as questioning, and threats or violence against family members are prohibited.

(4) No emergency, military order, public office, or claim of necessity excuses conduct prohibited by subsection (3).

Section 30. Re-Education

(1) The Re-Education Department may administer deradicalization, corrective civic instruction, supervised reintegration, and related programs.

(2) Compulsory placement requires a court order, supervised-release condition, or administrative security order expressly authorized by law and subject to prompt judicial review.

(3) Voluntary participation requires informed consent and may be ended according to the terms of referral.

(4) The Department shall not sentence a person, extend custody beyond the underlying authority, manufacture a confession as evidence of progress, or conceal indefinite detention.

Section 31. Internal Affairs

(1) Internal Affairs may investigate corruption, penetration, disloyalty, abuse of authority, retaliation, obstruction, and security compromise by persons entrusted with Imperial office or sensitive access.

(2) A case involving the Director, Deputy Director, or other senior Bureau officer shall be reported outside the ordinary chain to the Select Committee, Ruling Council, Inspectorate, Ministry of Justice, or other competent authority.

(3) An officer's loyalty is owed to the Empire, the Charter, and lawful authority, and not to the private interest of an individual superior.

Section 32. Relationship with the Ministry of Security and Other Authorities

(1) The Ministry of Security retains responsibility for Imperial civil law-enforcement policy, public order, interjurisdictional police cooperation, and the support and coordination of local, planetary, and territorial security forces. IOCI is the principal Imperial criminal-investigation and law-enforcement agency of that Ministry.

(2) IOCI and other competent civil police authorities retain general criminal jurisdiction. The Bureau shall exercise the internal-security jurisdiction established by section 26 and shall not assume an ordinary criminal matter solely because it is politically sensitive or because a suspect, victim, witness, or other person concerned holds public office.

(3) The Bureau is not subordinate to the Ministry of Security, and the Ministry, IOCI, and Bureau shall possess no power of command, appointment, discipline, budgetary control, or internal administration over one another except where an Act, Imperial Edict, or express delegation of the Emperor provides otherwise.

(4) Where criminal and internal-security jurisdictions overlap, the agencies concerned shall establish a recorded lead-agency or joint-command arrangement. IOCI shall ordinarily lead the investigation of general crime, organized crime, corruption, trafficking, piracy, fugitives, and offenses whose principal character is criminal. The Bureau shall ordinarily lead matters whose principal character is espionage, sabotage, terrorism, infiltration, organized subversion, official disloyalty, or serious compromise of Imperial security.

(5) An agency first encountering an immediate threat may preserve life, secure the scene, apprehend an offender where lawful, protect evidence, and take any other urgent measure within its authority. It shall notify the other competent agency without unreasonable delay and shall thereafter transfer or jointly manage the matter according to subsection (4).

(6) A participating agency shall preserve chains of custody, disclose material evidence to the competent prosecutor, record referrals and transfers, and comply with lawful judicial process. No agency may conceal, withhold, destroy, or misclassify evidence in order to obtain jurisdiction, avoid review, frustrate prosecution, or protect an officer or institution from lawful accountability.

(7) IOCI retains responsibility for criminal corruption and offenses against public integrity. ISB Internal Affairs retains responsibility for hostile penetration, disloyalty, obstruction, and security compromise involving persons entrusted with Imperial office or sensitive access. The Inspectorate retains its lawful jurisdiction over administrative misconduct, institutional performance, and failures of public administration. A matter touching more than one jurisdiction may be investigated jointly.

(8) Imperial Intelligence retains responsibility for foreign, military, and clandestine intelligence. The Ministry of Justice controls Imperial prosecution, and the courts retain authority over warrants, detention, trial, and such review as Imperial law provides.

(9) An ISB sector office shall cooperate with the Moff, Ministry of Security, IOCI, and territorial authorities but shall not become the private security service of a governor or other official.

Section 33. Records and Review

(1) The Bureau shall register cases, document authorities, grade intelligence, preserve exculpatory material, maintain chains of custody, and review intrusive measures periodically.

(2) Access to security records shall be limited by classification, duty, and operational need.

(3) The Select Committee, Ruling Council, courts, Ministry of Justice, and Inspectorate may exercise such oversight or review as the Charter and Imperial law confer upon them.

Part VI: Rights, Accountability, and General Provisions

Section 34. Charter Rights and Due Process

(1) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to displace a right, protection, or procedure secured by the Imperial Charter.

(2) A limitation upon speech, association, movement, privacy, liberty, or property shall rest upon law and shall be applied through the process required by the Charter and Imperial Legal Code.

(3) Service to the New Order does not excuse an unlawful order or transform suspicion into proof.

Section 35. Finance, Property, and Audit

(1) COMPNOR shall administer public appropriations and property for the purposes for which they were granted.

(2) Accounts shall distinguish public funds, membership funds, lawful contributions, and classified security expenditure.

(3) The Inspectorate and other competent auditing authorities may examine COMPNOR accounts, contracts, property, and administrative performance, subject to lawful safeguards for classified material.

Section 36. Regulations

(1) The Select Committee may make regulations necessary to administer Parts II and III.

(2) The Allegiant General may issue CompForce regulations consistent with Part IV, subject to approval by the Select Committee and any required concurrence of the Ministry of War.

(3) The Director of the Imperial Security Bureau may issue secure Bureau regulations consistent with Part V.

(4) A regulation under this section shall not create a criminal offense, confer a coercive power, or diminish a Charter right unless an Act or Imperial Edict expressly authorizes it.

Section 37. Transitional Authority

(1) Existing officers and personnel of COMPOR, COMPNOR, CompForce, and the Imperial Security Bureau continue in office subject to confirmation, reassignment, or removal by competent authority.

(2) Existing operations shall be brought into conformity with this Act as soon as practicable and no later than one standard year after commencement.

(3) An inherited practice inconsistent with the Charter, Imperial Legal Code, or this Act has no continuing authority.

Section 38. Relationship to Other Law

(1) This Act shall be read consistently with the Imperial Charter, which remains the supreme law of the Galactic Empire.

(2) The Imperial Legal Code governs criminal offenses, criminal procedure, warrants, arrest, detention, use of force, trial, and punishment except where a later and more specific Act lawfully provides otherwise.

(3) Nothing in this Act limits the constitutional authority of the Emperor or the lawful powers of the Imperial Senate, Ruling Council, courts, ministries, territorial governments, or military command.

Section 39. Review of the Act

The Select Committee shall, after the first five standard years of operation and at intervals directed by the Ruling Council thereafter, submit a report upon the operation of this Act and any amendment required for the security, good government, and civic unity of the Empire.

Enacted by the Imperial Senate and granted Imperial Assent in 1 AIA.