Act No. 183 / 1964 Coll.
Law on Rules of Procedure and Conditions of Employment of National Assembly
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183
THE LAW
of 24 September 1964
on the Rules of Procedure and Conditions of Employment of the National Assembly
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
Basic provisions
The National Assembly is the highest authority of the state power of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. In particular, its activities and the work of its institutions and Members of the National Assembly
- is active in carrying out the tasks of the Socialist State,
- monitor compliance with the Constitution and other legislation, monitor their implementation and operation in social life,
- guide the activities of the entire system of representative bodies, in particular national committees, as well as of all government bodies, to carry out key tasks,
- ensure the unity of the rule of law, its clarity, the stability and effectiveness of legislation,
- checks how other representative departments, government and government bodies perform their tasks in the Socialist construction of the Republic,
- monitor consistently the peaceful foreign policy and the application of the principles of peaceful coexistence between countries with different social establishment.
Meetings and meetings of the National Assembly
The National Assembly shall exercise its competence in meetings convened in the framework of meetings. All Members of the National Assembly participate in his work.
(1) The National Assembly elects the President, Vice-Presidents and other members of the Bureau of the National Assembly as well as the verifier; establish national assembly committees, elect their chairpersons and other members.
(2) The Bureau and the Committees of the National Assembly and the other bodies of the National Assembly are responsible for their activities to the National Assembly. The national assembly may at any time withdraw individual members of the Bureau or committees.
Subject matter of the plenary of the National Assembly
The National Assembly shall in particular:
(a) elect the President of the Republic;
(b) to discuss and act on the laws;
(c) discuss a long-term plan for the development of the national economy and the state budget, approve them by law and examine how they are implemented;
(d) negotiate and approve the State Accounts;
(e) discuss and approve international agreements of a political, economic and general nature and contracts for which the law is required;
(f) adopt resolutions on the fundamental issues of national internal and foreign policy;
(g) discuss reports on the implementation of the Constitution and other laws;
(h) discuss reports and draft measures by the President of the Republic;
(ch) discuss the programming declarations submitted by the Government to the National Assembly after its appointment, the regular reports of the Government on its activities, in particular the implementation of the annual plans, the reports on the activities of the National Committees and other declarations, proposals and reports of the Government;
(i) discuss reports by the Slovak National Council on its activities, proposals and comments by the Slovak National Council on the draft state plan for the development of the national economy and other proposals and initiatives by the Slovak National Council;
j) empowers the Slovak National Council to legislate those issues which require special arrangements in Slovakia;
(k) evaluate the activities of the National Assembly bodies, in particular the Bureau of the National Assembly; to this end it shall also discuss reports on their activities submitted by the Bureau of the National Assembly,
(l) discuss the other proposals, initiatives and reports of the Bureau and the committees of the National Assembly;
(m) discuss Members' proposals, initiatives and questions;
n) talks about reports by the Supreme Court and the Attorney General on the state of socialist legality;
(o) discuss reports of the Central Commission on People's Control and Statistics;
(p) may repeal the Law of the Slovak National Council, regulations or resolutions of the Government and generally binding regulations of the Regional National Committees, if they contradict the Constitution or any other law;
(r) elect the Supreme Court and may dismiss its members; it also elects and may dismiss judges from the profession of military courts,
(s) elect the Central Commission for People's Control and Statistics and may withdraw its members.
Meeting of the National Assembly
(1) The meeting of the National Assembly shall be convened by the President of the Republic at least twice a year. Meetings must be convened if at least a third of the Members so request.
(2) The President of the Republic declares the sitting closed.
(3) During the meeting, the National Assembly shall convene the Bureau of the National Assembly for each meeting.
Establishment of meetings of the National Assembly
(1) Members of the National Assembly shall meet after their election at the constituent meeting of the National Assembly.
(2) The representative shall be convened at the constituent meeting and the subject of its deliberations shall be proposed by the Bureau of the National Assembly no later than 4 weeks after the date of the election.
(1) Before the election of the new Bureau of the National Assembly, the founding meeting shall be chaired by the President or a member of the current Bureau of the National Assembly.
(2) The President shall take the oath of Members and have the Bureau elected.
Once the new Bureau has been elected, the new President-elect shall be appointed; the selection of the Mandate Committee and the other Committees of the National Assembly shall be made. Furthermore, the opening meeting shall elect a verifier.
The President of the former National Assembly or one of its Bureau members shall then report on the Bureau's activities during the period from the end of the last meeting of the National Assembly.
Meetings of the National Assembly
(1) The National Assembly shall, on a proposal from its Bureau, establish a agenda and a way of discussing the items of the agenda.
(2) The National Assembly shall be eligible for a resolution if an absolute majority of all Members are present. The consent of an absolute majority of Members present shall be required for the validity of the resolution.
(3) The adoption or amendment of the Constitution, the resolution on the declaration of war, the change of state borders and the election of the President of the Republic require the consent of three fifths of all Members.
(4) The vote is usually taken by raising hands; the vote on amendments shall be taken first. The President may add up the votes if the result of the vote is not apparent without adding them up. Verifiers shall assist in determining the results of the vote.
(1) If the National Assembly so requests, a member of the Government is obliged to attend the meeting of the National Assembly in person. At the same time, a member of the government has the right to attend a meeting of the National Assembly, and if he so requests, he is given the floor.
(2) The Bureau of the National Assembly may invite the members of the Presidency of the Slovak National Council at a meeting of the National Assembly, as well as other representatives of it, in particular when dealing with issues relating to the economic and cultural development of Slovakia; they can be given the floor.
(3) The Bureau of the National Assembly shall be entitled to invite the Heads of Central Authorities and National Committee officials to discuss the fundamental issues of maintaining socialist legality and carrying out the tasks arising from the State Plan for the Development of the National Economy and the Government Resolution on the agenda of the meeting of the National Assembly, who may be invited to provide the necessary explanations.
(1) National Assembly meetings are essentially public.
(2) The National Assembly may decide that the meeting is not public.
(3) In addition to members of the National Assembly, the President of the Republic and members of the Government may be present only with the approval of the Bureau of the National Assembly at a meeting of the National Assembly which has been declared non-public.
(1) In the debate, the President gives the speaker the floor as a rule in the order in which they applied for the floor.
(2) Each speaker has the right to speak in his mother tongue.
The resolution of the National Assembly shall be signed by the President and at least two verifiers.
Minutes of each meeting of the National Assembly shall be drawn up. The minutes shall be verified by the Chairman of the National Assembly and at least two verifiers.
Negotiations on bills
Proposals may be submitted by Members of the National Assembly, its committees, its Bureau, the President of the Republic, the Government and the Slovak National Council.
(1) The draft laws must contain the precise wording of the law on which the National Assembly is to act. The draft law must always be accompanied by a budget with a proposal for reimbursement of the necessary cargo.
(2) The Bureau of the National Assembly shall decide whether a draft law submitted by Members of the National Assembly or by its Committees is to become the subject of a full hearing. If the Bureau of the National Assembly rejects the proposal, the appellants may request that the proposal be placed on the agenda for the next plenary session. Such a request shall be decided by the plenary of the National Assembly by voting.
Proposals of the laws to be the subject of a plenary meeting of the National Assembly shall be assigned by the Bureau of the National Assembly to the competent committee of the National Assembly, unless, in specially justified cases, it has exceptionally examined them itself.
(1) In plenary of the National Assembly, the draft law will justify the representative of the institution that made the proposal; where the draft law is submitted by a group of Members of the National Assembly, it shall be justified by the Member designated by the other applicants.
(2) If the draft law has been discussed in the Committee of the National Assembly, the plenary of the National Assembly shall also report on the proposal and on its discussion to the representative of the committee responsible (rapporteur); If the proposal has been discussed in several committees of the National Assembly, these committees may designate a joint rapporteur.
(1) The laws are signed by the President of the Republic, the President of the National Assembly and the Prime Minister.
(2) The statutes shall be published by the Bureau of the National Assembly within 14 days of their approval; the procedure for publication shall be laid down in a separate law.
Enquiries by Members in meetings of the National Assembly
(1) Members of the National Assembly are entitled to ask questions about the Government and its individual members. They have the same right with regard to the Bureau of the National Assembly. Questions may be written or oral.
(2) The question of Members shall be answered; if, in view of the nature of the query, it is unable to reply to the meeting of the National Assembly to which the query has been raised, it must do so in writing within 30 days at the latest.
Bureau of the National Assembly
(1) The national assembly shall elect a Bureau of 30 members from among its members. The Bureau shall consist of the President of the National Assembly, the Vice-Presidents, the Committee Chairs and other members of the Bureau.
(2) The Bureau shall be elected for the entire term of the National Assembly. He shall remain in office even after the end of his term of office until the newly elected National Assembly elects its Bureau.
The Bureau of the National Assembly shall in particular:
(a) monitor and control the performance of the important tasks of economic and cultural construction and, where necessary, adopt resolutions or recommendations on them;
(b) exercise, at a time when the National Assembly does not sit, the jurisdiction of the National Assembly under Article 60 (2) of the Constitution;
(c) at the time when the Government is acting as President of the Republic, appoint and dismiss the Government and its members and delegate them to the management of ministries and other central bodies;
d) announces elections to the National Assembly and general elections to the representative corps;
(e) specify the time when the election of judges of the Supreme Court, regional and regional courts and court-martials in the profession of military courts is to be made;
(f) approve the work plans of the National Assembly bodies;
(g) draw up and approve the National Assembly's foreign relations plan and ensure the conditions for its implementation;
(h) directs the activities of the Central Commission of People's Control and Statistics to be consistent with the control function of the National Assembly; to that end, also approve the plan of its activities;
(ch) discuss the proposals of the National Front for appeals of Members of the National Assembly and ensure that these proposals are discussed at public meetings in the constituencies.
The Bureau of the National Assembly shall be responsible for preparing and filling the plenary meetings of the National Assembly, governing and coordinating the work of the National Assembly Committees. To that end, in particular:
(a) prepare a draft agenda for the National Assembly meetings, determine the time of its meetings and propose the agenda of each meeting;
(b) examine the effectiveness of the draft laws submitted by Members and committees of the National Assembly;
(c) ensure the conditions for the work of the committees of the National Assembly and their chairmen, in particular assigning draft laws and other proposals concerning economic and cultural construction to individual committees and delegating to committee meetings members of the Bureau or other Members who are not members of committees;
(d) determine to what extent and in what order the Vice-Presidents shall represent the President of the National Assembly;
(e) guide the activities of Members of the National Assembly and provide all-round information to Members, in particular on important resolutions of the highest party and government and on the work of the National Assembly and its bodies, in order to enable Members to work successfully in the National Assembly and in their constituencies;
(f) decide on the full or, where appropriate, partial or temporary release from employment of Members required to perform their duties in the national assembly bodies.
In addition, the Bureau of the National Assembly shall carry out the following tasks in particular:
(a) to be decided on the draft budget of the National Assembly;
(b) establish the way in which proposals, initiatives and complaints are handled and regularly assess their handling.
(1) The Bureau of the National Assembly shall meet as necessary, at least once a month.
(2) Meetings of the Bureau of the National Assembly are private.
(3) Participation of members of the Bureau of the National Assembly in meetings is compulsory.
(4) Each member of the Bureau shall have the right to propose that a question be included on the agenda.
(5) The provisions on the questions of Members in the meetings of the Bureau of the National Assembly apply to the questions of Members in the meetings of the National Assembly.
(1) The Bureau of the National Assembly may request individual members of the Government to attend its meetings. Members of the government are obliged to do so. At the same time, they have the right to attend meetings of the Bureau of the National Assembly and, if they ask, they are given the floor.
(2) Other Members of the National Assembly, officials of the Slovak National Council, regional national committees and other representatives of state bodies, social and economic organisations and scientific institutions may be invited to the meetings of the Bureau of the National Assembly according to the nature of the questions under discussion.
(1) The Bureau of the National Assembly shall be qualified to act if an absolute majority of its members are present.
(2) The agreement of an absolute majority of its members shall be required for the validity of the resolution.
(3) Minutes shall be drawn up for each meeting of the Bureau of the National Assembly, as verified by the President and the verifier.
Chairman of the National Assembly
Chairman of the National Assembly:
(a) represents the National Assembly on the outside;
(b) manage meetings of the National Assembly;
(c) organise, convene and manage the meetings of the Bureau of the National Assembly;
d) Signs the laws, resolutions of the National Assembly and legal measures of the Bureau of the National Assembly;
(e) report to the plenary of the National Assembly on the activities of the Bureau of the National Assembly and inform the plenary of the National Assembly of the handling of the observations of Members and committees raised at plenary meetings of the National Assembly.
The President of the National Assembly shall be represented by the Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly in the order and scope determined by the Bureau of the National Assembly.
National Assembly Committees
(1) The National Assembly establishes the National Assembly Committees as its working and initiative bodies for the main sections of national and social activity.
(2) The National Assembly shall establish the following committees:
(a) the Committee on Mandate and Immunity,
(b) the Committee of the Constitutional Law,
(c) the Committee on National Committees,
(d) the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
(e) the plan and budget committee;
(f) an industrial committee for the main industries and transport,
(g) the Committee on the Consumer Industry, Services, Trade and Communications,
(h) the Committee on Investment Construction and Construction,
(ch) the Committee on Agriculture and Nutrition,
(i) the Cultural Committee;
(j) the Health Committee.
a committee of defence and security.
(3) If necessary, the National Assembly may set up additional committees.
(4) The members of the Committees are elected from among the Members of the National Assembly. The number of members of each committee shall be determined by the National Assembly.
(1) The National Assembly Committees are actively involved in the development of fundamental issues in the different areas of the national economy and discuss and control the implementation of the critical tasks of economic and cultural construction.
(2) The Committee of the National Assembly shall communicate its observations and suggestions as a recommendation to the relevant member of the Government or to another Head of Central Authority. Members of the Government and other central authority heads are required to discuss and communicate the consequences of the Committee, in particular how to address the deficiencies and their causes (Article 66 of the Constitution). In serious cases, the Committee shall submit a proposal for a solution to the Bureau or to the plenary of the National Assembly with a proposal for a binding measure (Article 40 of the Constitution). State and economic authorities are bound by this measure.
(1) The Committees of the National Assembly discuss the principles of the laws and, where appropriate, international treaties and apply their position on them. Members of the government and other central authority leaders shall be required to submit to the National Assembly committees the principles of the laws being drawn up in a timely manner, together with the political and economic analysis justifying the issue of the proposed law.
(2) The National Assembly Committees discuss the draft laws which they have been assigned to discuss the Bureau of the National Assembly; If the same bill has been assigned to several committees, the committees may discuss it in a joint meeting. The Committee shall appoint a rapporteur to discuss the draft law; may also request a report on the submitted proposal to the committee by a representative of the institution which has prepared the draft law. This authority shall also be required to submit to the National Assembly Committee for consideration of the draft law prepared by implementing provisions in order to enable the Committee to assess whether they are in conformity with the law.
(3) After consulting the draft law, the committee of rapporteurs shall designate a rapporteur who shall report to the plenary of the National Assembly on the draft law and on its discussion (§ 19 (2)). If, at a time when the National Assembly does not sit, it has been decided that the draft law will be submitted for approval to the Bureau of the National Assembly as a draft legislative measure, the rapporteur shall report to the Bureau. The Committee of the National Assembly shall also submit a written report on the draft laws in which it has made amendments.
(4) National Assembly Committees regularly monitor the application of important laws; In so doing, they shall also verify that the implementing provisions issued after the law has been passed are in conformity with it and correspond to the objectives envisaged by the law.
(1) The National Assembly Committees work closely together with the members of the Government. Members of the Government may attend all meetings of the National Assembly Committees; They shall be given the floor whenever they so request, including on statements which are unrelated to the agenda of the meeting. Committees shall have the right to invite and request information and reports from members of government and representatives of other state bodies to their meetings. Members of the Government shall be required to attend the meeting of the National Assembly Committee if requested by the Committee. They may be represented in committee meetings by their deputies if they do not insist on their personal participation. The members of the Government and their alternates may invite experts from their office to meetings of the committees they attend.
(2) Members of the Government and representatives of other state bodies are obliged to provide the National Assembly committees and their individual members with the assistance needed for their constitutional activities.
(3) The National Assembly committees work closely with the Slovak National Council commissions and, where necessary, hold joint meetings and establish joint working groups, in particular for the preparation of serious legislative measures for control and verification activities and for monitoring compliance with socialist legality.
(1) The National Assembly committees, in addition to representatives of state bodies, shall be recruited to discuss serious issues where this is also necessary by scientists, improvements, technicians and other leading workers of economic and cultural life.
(2) If the need for a proper and detailed examination of the issues under consideration so requires, the Committee may carry out surveys and on-the-spot consultations.
National Assembly Committees work together to help each other at work. The National Assembly committees may meet together and submit joint reports and proposals to the National Assembly and its Bureau if this calls for interest.
Each member of the National Assembly Committee shall be obliged to participate actively in the work of the Committee of which he is a member.
(1) The Committee of the National Assembly shall be chaired by the President elected by the Plenary of the National Assembly.
(2) The Chairman of the National Assembly Committee shall in particular:
(a) organise the work and ensure the work of the Committee;
(b) convene and manage meetings of the Committee and propose their programme;
(c) is in contact with the relevant members of the Government and the Slovak National Council;
(d) sign the committee's resolutions and ensure that they are implemented;
(e) report to the Bureau of the National Assembly or, where appropriate, to the National Assembly on the activities of the Committee.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 183 / 1964 Coll., on the Rules of Procedure and Conditions of Employment of the National Assembly |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 01.10.1964 |
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| Effective from | 01.10.1964 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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