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

Appendix II. Statutes

936 Chapter I. Provisions relating to the re-establishment of constitutional order. § I

. The National Assembly approves the decrees of the Government on the basis of which the National Assembly was constituted. § 2. The National Assembly declares itself the lawful representative body of the sovereign Hungarian State which is empowered to regulate the exercise of the sovereign power in accordance with our Constitution. § 3. Members of the National Assembly shall enjoy the same immunities which the laws in force granted to members of Parliament. § 4. The legislative power shall be exercised by the National Assembly. § 5. The executive power shall be exercised, until the post of the Regent is filled, by the Council of Ministers responsible to the National Assembly. § 6. The Hungarian Council of Ministers shall be increased to include a Minister for Foreign Affairs, a Minister of Social Welfare and Labour, a Minister of Small Farmers, a Minister of Public Food Supply and a Minister for National Minorities. The competence of these ministers shall be determined by the Council of Ministers until the legislature shall do so. The post of the King's Minister is abolished. § 7. The judicial power shall be exercised in the name of the Hungarian State by the courts of justice established by law until further measures are enacted by the legislature. § 8. A national army shall be established for the defence of the country and for cooperation in maintaining internal order and security; it shall take an oath to support the Hungarian Constitution. § 9. The statues, decrees and ordinances of whatever nature issued by the organs of the so-called people's republic and soviet republic are hereby declared null and void. The orders and resolutions of whatever nature passed by the so-called national councils and their organs shall be equally without force and effect. The statutes and resolutions referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be erased from the Collection of Statutes. Nevertheless, the National Assembly empowers the Council of Ministers to retain temporarily in force, on its own responsibility and so far as permitted by the Constitution, measures enacted by organs of the so-called people's republic which are necessary in the interest of the legal order and the security of legal transactions or to replace such measures by executive