Papers and Documents relating to the Foreign Relations of Hungary, Volume 1, 1919–1920 (Budapest, 1939)

Appendix II. Statutes

938 Statutes enacted by the National Assembly do not require approval; such statutes shall be signed and published by the Regent within sixty days. The Regent may, before ordering its publication, stating the reasons for his action, return a statute to the National Assembly once for reconsideration. If the National Assembly maintains unchanged a statute thus returned, the Regent is bound to publish it within fifteen days. The Regent may not exercise the right of return with respect to statutes which concern the form of the Government or the person of the Head of State. Moreover, the Regent may exercise the right of return only in such a way that the National Assembly may reconsider it before the expiration of the two year term for which it was elected. The Regent may not adjourn the National Assembly; and he may exercise with respect to it the royal prerogative of dissolving Parliament only if the National Assembly should become incapable of performing its function, despite the Regent's message, and if its ability to resume duties cannot be restored by the President of the National Assembly by virtue of his powers under the rules of the Assembly. However, in case of dissolution, the Regent shall be bound to provide in the decree of dissolution for the convocation of the new National Assembly in such a way that it could meet, on the basis of the contemplated new electoral law (or, if that should not yet be enacted, on the basis of the electoral law at present in force), within three months.

1 1 These two paragraphs of section 13 have been modified by Law No. XVII, of 1920, ('see note p. 89) § 1 as follows: „The royal prerogative of adjournment, suspension and dissolution of Parliament as defined by Law No. IV of 1848 and Law No. X of 1867, may also be exercised with respect to the National Assembly. This right may be exercised by the Regent; but in case of dissolution of the National Assembly the Regent shall be bound to provide in the decree of dissolution for the convocation of the new National Assembly in such a way that it could meet, on the basis of the contemplated new electoral law (or, if that should not yet be enacted, on the basis of the electoral law at present in force) within three months from the dissolution. The Regent may suspend the National Assembly for not more than thirty days. „Should the Regent dissolve the National Assembly during the 60 days within which any law enacted should be published by him pursuant to the second paragraph of § 13 of Law No. I of 1920, or should the term of two years for which this National Assembly was elected expire during such 60 days, the Regent may return such an unpublished law for reconsideration to the new National Assembly (or to the Parliament if such should be substituted therefor) within fifteen days from its convocation." „The second and third paragraphs of § 13 of Law No. I of 1920, are hereby repealed so far as they are contrary to these provisions."