Bill on Decentralization:

All About the Content of Special Status
Book 4 of the Bill on the General Code of Regional and Local Authorities grants the North-West and South-West Regions a special status based on their language specificity and their historical heritage. This status comes across, in terms of decentralization, in the specificities of the organization and functioning of these two regions, as well as in respect for the peculiarities of the English-speaking education system and those of the Anglo-Saxon judicial system based on Common Law.
    Pursuant to Article 62 of the Constitution, these regions benefit from special rules of organization and functioning largely inspired by the institutions in force in Anglo-Saxon countries and experienced under the British mandate and trusteeship or during the period directly following independence.

A bicameral deliberative body 
    Unlike the other eight regions, the proposed deliberative body, called the Regional Assembly, in the North-West and South-West Regions has two houses: the House of Divisional Representatives and the House of Chiefs. The House of Chiefs hinges on that provided for in Article 9 of Law No. 61-LW_1 of 26 October 1961 in the Constitution of the Federated West Cameroon State.

A collegial executive body: the Executive Council
    The executive body does not boil down to the President of the Regional Council alone, as happens in the other eight regions. It reflects the model of the executives in force in countries that follow the British parliamentary tradition. It is a true executive council comprising:
1 (one) President;
1 (one) Vice-President;
1 (one) Commissioner in charge of economic development;
1 (one) Commissioner in charge of health and social development;
1 (one) Commissioner in charge of educational, sports and cultural development;
2 (two) Secretaries; and
1 (one) Questor.
    The collegial executive is under the control of the deliberative body which is, in particular, endowed with the impeachment procedure.

Three specialized commissioners
    While the regional administration, under the leadership of the President of the Regional Council, is responsible for the daily monitoring of matters on the powers devolved in the other eight regions, there are three political extraction committees, and not mere administrative ones, responsible for doing so in the special status regions.

A public independent Conciliator
    The book introduces the office of a Public Independent Conciliator, an independent authority appointed by the President of the Republic for a non-renewable six-year term. The authority’s mission is, inter alia, to make sure that the relations between citizens and regional and municipal public services are sound.

The specific operating mechanisms of these houses are as follows:

An extra set of powers
    The North-West and South-West Regions have powers not provided for in the other eight regions as follows: taking part in defining national government policies on the English-speaking education subsystem
creating and managing regional development authorities; and taking part in defining the status of traditional chieftains.
    In addition, they may: give their opinion on issues related to shaping public policies of justice in the Common Law subsystem; and take part in managing public services in their territories.