Ságvári Ágnes (szerk.): Budapest. The History of a Capital (Budapest, 1975)

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Section S.

1. This Act will come into force on the 1st day of January, 1950.

2. This Act will be enforced by the Minister of the Interior in accord with the appropriate Ministers. Enforcement of organizational measures and procedural questions of a temporary nature, necessary to ensure efficient administration in the capital will be taken by the Minister of the Interior.

Törvények és rendeletek hivatalos gyűjteménye [Official collection of laws and decrees], Budapest, 1950, pp. 91-92.

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Act I of 1950 of the establishment of the socialist system of councils Sections relating to Budapest May 18th, 1950

I. General provisions Section 1.

The local councils are bodies hierarchically subordinate and superior to one another in accordance with the principles of democratic centralism, elected from among the working population according to the fundamental principles of a broad democracy. Within their own province they represent the unified state power of the workers, guarantee order and method in every sphere of public life, attend to the duties of economic, social and cultural supervision, as well as to the local duties of public administration in general.

Section 2.

1. Local councils shall place direct reliance on the population in their work and shall invite the active participation, initiative and control on the part of the working people in the local exercise of public power (Constitution, Section 32).

Section 8.

1. Municipal district councils will be set up in each district in Budapest.

2. Town district councils will also be organized in towns divided into administrative districts pursuant to the decrees of the Council of Ministers.

3. The jurisdictional area of town district councils will consist of the relevant administrative urban district.

Section 10.

1. All local councils will be subordinated in the last resort to Parliament and the Presidential Council of the People’s Republic.

2. The final supervision and general direction of the work of local councils, as well as the co-ordination of their activities, shall devolve on the Council of Ministers.

3. The municipal council of Budapest, the county councils, and town councils of the same status as county councils, shall be directly subordinated to the Council of Ministers;

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