Act No. 185 / 1950 Coll.
Act amending and supplementing Act No. 261 / 1949 Coll., on the Organisation of Research and Documentation Services
Valid
Effective from 28.12.1950
185.
Law
of 20 December 1950
amending and supplementing Act No. 261 / 1949 Coll., on the Organisation of Research and Documentation Services.
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Law 261 / 1949 Coll. is amended as follows:
1. The title of the law reads:
"Act on the Organisation of Research and Technical Development."
2. The heading of Part One and Section I shall read:
Research and technological development.
Research and technological development headquarters. '
3.
(1) A Research and Technical Development Headquarters (hereinafter referred to as "the Headquarters") is hereby established as the central office for the establishment of a single organisation of research and technological development and their planned management.
(2) Research under this law means continuous scientific research, which creates and collects scientific knowledge and examines the possibility of using it to develop and secure the economy of the whole and increase the level of the people.
(3) Technical development according to this law means scientific and technical work (development, inventions, improvements, introduction of new products and new production methods and processes), standardisation, testing, technical control, documentation and professional activity publishing. '
4. The new § 2 of the following text is inserted after § 1:
(1) In the field of research:
(a) prepare draft research plans within the framework of the Single Economic Plan;
(b) monitor research activities in research institutes and research centres (Section 5) and take care of the coordination and development of scientific work in them;
(c) determine, in accordance with the needs of the Single Economic Plan, the basic research tasks of the research plans and take care of their solutions;
(d) ensure that research results are used in practice;
(e) carry out the planned training of researchers and cooperate in their inclusion in research institutes and research centres;
(f) take care of material equipment, the effective deployment and use of research institutes and research centres;
(g) to take care of the planned organisation of scientific meetings, conferences and advice for research needs;
(h) take care of contacts with abroad for research needs;
(ch) to grant remuneration for the results of the research work under the directives laid down by the Government, to propose to the competent institutions the granting of such remuneration or to comment on proposals for granting it.
(2) In the field of technical development, the Centre shall include in particular:
(a) prepare, within the framework of the Single Economic Plan, draft technical development plans and the implementation plan for the results of scientific and technical activities;
(b) monitor the scientific, technical, standardisation, documentation and publishing activities of technical development bodies and equipment (Section 6);
(c) ensure that the results of scientific, technical, standardisation and documentation work are disseminated and used in practice;
(d) to take care of the planned education of scientific and technical staff and to cooperate in their inclusion in technical development bodies and facilities;
(e) ensure that the equipment and use of technical development bodies and equipment is planned;
(f) take care of the planned organisation of meetings, conferences and meetings for technical development;
(g) care for contacts with foreign countries for technical development;
(h) to grant, under the directives laid down by the Government, remuneration for the results of scientific, technical, standardisation, documentation and publishing works, unless otherwise provided for in the award of such remuneration.
(3) The Headquarters may delegate central research institutes (§ 7) or technical development bodies (§ 12 and 13) to carry out some of its tasks referred to in paragraph 1 or 2.
(4) The measures by which the Centre intervenes in the performance of its tasks in the competence of other central offices are taken by the Central Office in an agreement with those central offices. "
5. Article 2 shall be renumbered Article 3 and read:
(1) The Head of the Centre is the President, represented by the Deputy Director. The President and his Deputy President shall establish and dismiss the President of the Republic on a proposal from the Government.
(2) The President of the Institute is subject to the Minister-President of the Planning Office. The Chairperson shall organise and manage the work of the Institute and the Scientific Council (paragraph 3).
(3) The Scientific Council shall be established as the advisory body of the President of the Centre. The number of its members shall be determined and appointed by the President of the Centre. ';
6. Paragraph 3 shall be renumbered Article 4 and read:
(1) As a regional authority of the Institute, the Slovak Research and Technological Development Headquarters (hereinafter referred to as the "Slovak Headquarters') is hereby established, through which it exercises its functions in Slovakia.
(2) The head of Slovak headquarters is the President, represented by the Deputy Director. The President and Deputy Director shall be appointed and dismissed by the Government on a proposal from the Administrative President of the State Planning Office, made after the hearing by the delegate of the Slovak Planning Office and the President of the Institute. The President of the Slovak headquarters shall be subject to the mandate of the President of the Slovak Planning Office. The Chairman shall organise and manage the work of the Slovak Headquarters and the Slovak Scientific Council (paragraph 3).
(3) The Slovak Scientific Council, composed of Slovak members of the Scientific Council (§ 3 (3)), shall be established as the advisory body of the President of the Slovak Headquarters. '
7. the heading of Section II in Part One shall read:
"Research institutes and research institutes."
8. Paragraph 4 shall be renumbered Article 5 and read:
Research is carried out by research institutes and research centres, as referred to in Sections 7 to 11, as well as by existing research institutes and research centres (Section 22 (1)). '
9. A new Section III of Part One is inserted after Section II:
Technical development bodies and facilities.
Technical development shall be taken care of by the technical development bodies and equipment referred to in Sections 12 to 14 and, as a transitional measure, by the existing technical development bodies and equipment (Section 22). ';
10. Title of Part Two and its new section I read:
Research institutes and research centres.
Central research institutes. "
11. Article 5 shall become Article 7 and the following paragraph 4 shall be added:
"(4) The Minister-President of the State Planning Office may, by decree, set up branches of the Central Research Institute outside its headquarters. The branch of the Central Research Institute established in Slovakia is the regional body of that Institute; If more than one branch is set up in Slovakia, the Minister-President of the Planning Office shall also determine which of them is the regional authority. '
12. § 6 is renumbered § 8.
13. The designation of Part Three and its title shall be replaced by the following designation and title:
Other research institutes and research institutes. '
14. Paragraph 7 shall be renumbered Article 9 and read:
(1) In an agreement with the Minister of Finance and the President of the Centre, Ministers may establish research institutes (central office institutes) in their field of competence.
(2) Ministers may, in agreement with the President of the Institute, set up branches of central offices outside the headquarters of such institutes. The branch of the Central Office Institute established in Slovakia is its regional authority; If several branches are set up in Slovakia, the competent minister shall designate a regional authority in agreement with the President of the Centre.
(3) The Organisational Regulations of the institutes referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be issued and the responsibilities of the institutes shall be determined by the competent central authorities in agreement with the Institute.
(4) The Headquarters may, with the approval of the competent central authority, impose specific research tasks on its institutes, directly or through central research institutes. ';
15. Paragraph 8 shall become Article 10 and read:
(1) The Directorates-General and bodies of the like, national, municipal and similar bodies, other bodies managing national assets, people's cooperatives and mass and interest organisations of the working people, may establish research institutes with the agreement of the participating ministers in agreement with the President of the Institute.
(2) The Minister responsible shall determine in agreement with the President of the Institute the conditions under which the Institute of Research shall perform its tasks.
(3) Research centres may be established according to guidelines issued by the Centre in agreement with participating central offices.
(4) The Centre may, with the agreement of the competent central office, impose specific research tasks on research institutes and research institutes. ';
16. Paragraph 9, which is renumbered Article 11, is replaced by the following:
Technical development bodies and facilities.
Central technical development bodies.
(1) In order to carry out technical development care, they shall be established at the Centre as central bodies:
(a) the Office for Inventions and Improving Ideas;
(b) the standardisation authority,
c) Czechoslovak Institute for Technical Economic Documentation.
(2) The composition and competence of the Office for Inventions and Improving Ideas will be governed by specific provisions. The composition and competence of the Standardisation Authority shall be adapted by the Government by a regulation which shall, in particular, determine what is meant by standardisation activities, how standards are to be developed and how they are to be binding, as well as the duties of the authorities, undertakings and bodies in the development of standards, and in checking their implementation and compliance. The composition and competence of the Czechoslovak Institute for Technical and Economic Documentation will be governed by the statute issued by the Minister-President of the State Office planning in agreement with the ministers involved.
(3) The Centre will set up publishing central bodies in an agreement with the Ministry of Finance and Information and Education. The regulations on publishing are otherwise unaffected.
(4) The Government may, by regulation, set up other central bodies of technical development and determine their scope where there is no need for law to establish them.
(5) The Minister-President of the State Planning Office may, by decree, set up branches of the Central Technical Development Authority outside its registered office. The branch of the Central Technical Development Authority established in Slovakia shall be the regional authority of that Central Authority; If several branches are set up in Slovakia, the Minister-President of the Planning Office shall also designate a regional authority.
Other technical development bodies and facilities.
(1) In agreement with the Minister for Finance and the President of the Institute, Ministers may establish technical development bodies (central authorities) in their field of competence.
(2) Ministers may, in agreement with the President of the Centre, set up branches of central authority bodies outside the headquarters of those bodies. The branch of the central authority established in Slovakia is its regional authority; If several branches are set up in Slovakia, the competent minister shall designate a regional authority in agreement with the President of the Centre.
(3) The Organisational Regulations of the bodies referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be issued and the powers of the authorities shall be determined by the competent central authorities in agreement with the Institute.
(4) The Centre may, with the agreement of the competent central office, impose specific tasks on its authorities, directly or through the central technical development authorities.
(1) The Directorates-General and bodies of the like, national, municipal and similar enterprises, following the case of other authorities managing national assets, folk cooperatives and mass and interest organisations of the working people, may set up technical development facilities under the directives to be adopted by the Centre in agreement with the participating central authorities.
(2) The Centre may, with the agreement of the central office concerned, impose specific tasks on technical development equipment. '
17. The heading of Part Four reads:
"Transfer of rights and obligations."
18. The designations and headings of Sections I and II of Part Four and the provisions of Section 10 are deleted.
19. Article 11 shall be renumbered Article 15.
20. Paragraph 12 is renumbered Article 16 and reads:
All research institutes and research institutes (§ 5) and technical development bodies and facilities (§ 6) are obliged to support the Centre in the performance of its tasks. '
21. Paragraph 12, renumbered Article 16, is inserted as Section 17 of the following text:
The headquarters shall, in their field of competence, make measures of a general nature a decree in an official certificate. '
22. Paragraph 13 shall become Article 18 and read:
(1) The Centre may publish data and reports obtained from research institutes or research institutes (Section 5) only with the agreement of the authorities managing these institutes or workplaces.
(2) When publishing data and reports, the Bureau shall ensure that economic or public interests are not affected.
(3) Unpublished data or reports may only be consulted by the authorities, institutes and bodies designated in Sections 1 and 4 to 6.
(4) Everyone whose data and reports are collected, processed or published is obliged to maintain confidentiality in respect of all matters which they are aware of.
(5) In the cases referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3, the Centre shall seek the approval of the Ministry of National Security if it is concerned that it would be prejudicial to national, economic or professional secrecy; The Ministry of National Security shall decide in an agreement with the Ministry of National Defence as regards data and reports relevant to State defence.
(6) The provisions of paragraphs 2 to 5 shall apply mutatis mutandis to data and reports obtained from technical development bodies and equipment (Section 6). "
23. § 14 is renumbered § 19.
24. Paragraph 15 shall become Article 20 and read:
(1) Paragraph 9 of Act No. 249 / 1948 Coll., on the nationalisation and organisation and administration of agricultural and forestry research institutes, is deleted.
(2) The date to be determined by the Government by the Regulation (§ 12 (2)) is hereby repealed by Act No. 84 / 1948 Coll., on the Obligation of Economic and Technical Standards.
(3) The provisions of this Act shall be repealed, subject to the applicability of any other provisions contrary to those of this Law. ';
25. Paragraph 16 shall become Article 21 and read:
(1) This law does not apply to research into military administration and its constitution and to legal documentation activities carried out by the Ministry of Unification.
(2) Synergies in matters of research and technological development between the military administration and the Institute, as well as between the various research institutes and research centres of the military administration and research institutes and research centres under this law, will be governed by the Directives to be published by the Centre in an agreement with the Ministry of National Defence and other participating central authorities.
(3) The Directives referred to in paragraph 2 will also specify what measures are to be implemented in the Centre and in the various research institutes and research centres and in the technical development bodies and facilities under this Act in order to defend the State. "
Article 26 (17) is renumbered Article 22 and reads:
(1) Until other measures are taken under this law, the activities of the existing research institutes and research centres and bodies and technical development facilities remain unaffected.
(2) Until specific provisions on the composition and competence of the Office of Inventions and Improving Ideas (§ 12 (1) (a)) have been issued, the Patent Office in Prague shall exercise its competence according to the existing regulations. "
27. Paragraph 18 shall become Article 23.
The Minister-President of the State Office of Planning will adapt and publish in the Collection of Laws the text of Act No. 261 / 1949 Coll., as is apparent from the changes made by this Act.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication; It shall be carried out by the Minister-President of the State Office planning it in agreement with the Minister of Finance and other participating members of the Government.
Gottwald v. r.
Dr John v. r.
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| Citation | Act No. 185 / 1950 Coll., amending and supplementing Act No. 261 / 1949 Coll., on the Organisation of Research and Documentation Services |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 28.12.1950 |
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| Effective from | 28.12.1950 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
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