In Accordance With the Provisions of Art 24 of the National Decree 8204

Nosotros

Alexander I

by the Grace of God and the will of the people

King of Yugoslavia

exercise hereby decree and promulgate the

constitution of the

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

which reads as follows:

Affiliate I. General Provisions [edit]

Art. i. The kingdom of Yugoslavia is a hereditary and ramble monarchy.

Art. 2. The arms of the Kingdom are a 2-headed white hawkeye with outspread wings on a red shield. On the two heads of the double-headed eagle is the Crown of the Kingdom. On the chest of the hawkeye is a shield bearing: a white cross on a ruby-red shield with a flint and steel in each corner, a shield divided into 25 fields, alternately argent and red, and beneath it a blue shield with 3 golden six-pointed stars and a white crescent. The national standard is blue-white-scarlet in the horizontal sense confronting a vertical staff.

Art. iii. The official language of the Kingdom is Serb-Croat-Slovene.

Chapter Ii. Elementary Rights and Duties of Citizens [edit]

Art. 4. In that location is but one single nationality in the whole Kingdom. All citizens are equal before the law. All enjoy equal protection from the government. Nobility, titles or other hereditary privileges are not recognized.

Art. v. Personal liberty is guaranteed. Nobody may be subject to interrogation, placed under arrest or deprived of freedom by anyone, except in cases prescribed by law. Illegal impecuniousness of liberty is punishable.

Art. six. No one may be tried by a courtroom which is not competent.

Art. 7. No one may exist sentenced without having been previously interrogated past the competent authority or without being legally invited to defend himself.

Art. eight. No penalization may be laid down except by police; it may be applied solely to acts previously deemed past police to be so punishable.

Art. 9. No citizen may be banished from the Land. He may non be deported from i place in the land to another, nor may lie be obliged to remain at a certain place except in the cases expressly contemplated by law. No one may be expelled from his place of origin without a judicial decision.

Art. 10. The abode is inviolable. Government may not search or examine the dwelling of a denizen except in the cases contemplated and the forms prescribed by law. The illegal violation of a habitation is punishable.

Fine art. 11. Freedom of religion and censor is guaranteed. Recognized religious denominations take equal rights before the law and may publicly practice their worship. The enjoyment of civil and political rights is independent of the practice of religion. No 1 call claim exemption from civil and military obligations and duties by reason of the prescriptions of his organized religion. Religions may exist recognized only by law. Those permitted and recognized shall settle independently their domestic diplomacy and manage their endowments and funds within the limits of the law. No one is obliged to practice his faith publicly. No 1 is obliged to participate in religious acts, festivities, rites and ceremonies, exception being made for State holidays and festivities and, in the cases governed by police force, for persons subject to parental, guardians' and military machine potency. Religious denominations permitted and recognized may maintain relations with their supreme religious leader, even beyond the Country frontiers, to the extent required by the spiritual prescriptions of the diverse sects. The manner of maintaining such relations shall be regulated by police force. And then far every bit provision is made by the State budget for religions denominations, the sums must exist divided amid the different, confessions which are permitted and recognised in a mode proportionate to the numerical following and to the actual proved needs of each. Religions representatives mush not brand use of their spiritual say-so for party purposes, either in places of worship, or past publications of a religions character, or otherwise in the exercise of their official functions. Similarly no one shall be permitted to engage in whatsoever political propaganda in places of worship or during religious services or meetings in general.

Art. 12. Anybody is free, within the limits of the law, to express his stance orally, in writing, by pictures, or in any other advisable style.

Art. thirteen. Citizens have the right to class associations, and to hold meetings and consult together, within the limits of the constabulary. Associations for political political party purposes or for purposes of physical culture may not exist formed on a denominational, racial or religious basis. No i may attend meetings armed.

Art. xiv. Citizens have the right of petition. Petitions may exist signed past i or more persons and also by any legal entity. They may be addressed to all authorities without distinction.

Art. 15. Science and arts are complimentary.

Art. 16. In addition to State public schools, individual schools may also exist allowed inside the limits of the law. Elementary education is compulsory. In the State primary schools it is free. All schools must impart a moral education and develop the civic conscience in the spirit of national unity and religions tolerance. All educational institutions are placed under State control.

Art. 17. The secrecy of letters and telegraphic and telephonic communications is inviolable, except in cases of criminal investigation, mobilization and war. All persons who violate the secrecy of letters, or telegraphic or telephonic communications, shall be punished in accord with the law.

Art. eighteen. Every national who has been the victim of an offence committed past an official of the State or the autonomous administrative bodies in the practice of his functions, has the correct to bring an activeness before a court of law, directly and without authorization. Special provisions are applicable to Ministers, judges and soldiers with the colours. The officials of the State or autonomous administrative body in question, as well as the State and the said torso, are responsible before the regular courts for amercement caused to citizens through the irregular exercise of their functions.

Art. 19. All offices in all branches of the civil service are open up on equal terms to all citizens.

Art. 20. Every national enjoys the protection of the Country in foreign countries. He is gratis to relinquish his nationality after fulfilling all his obligations toward the State. The extradition of nationals is not permitted.

Chapter Iii. Social and Economic Provisions [edit]

Fine art. 21. Marriage, the family and children are under the protection of the Country.

Art. 22. Holding is guaranteed. The form and the limits of property rights are defined by law. The expropriation of private property in the public involvement is permitted, in virtue of the law and on payment of just compensation.

Art. 23. The freedom of labour and the liberty of contract in economical relations are recognized. The State has, in the interests of the community and in accordance with the law, the right and the duty to arbitrate in the economic relations of nationals, in a spirit of justice and in order to preclude social conflicts.

Fine art. 24. As an advisory trunk in social and economic matters an Economic Council is established, which shall, at the asking of the Government or of Parliament, give its expert opinion. The Economic Council is composed of representatives of the economic professions and of experts in economical and social matters. The limerick and procedure of the Economic Council shall be laid down by a special law.

Chapter Four. The Powers of the Land [edit]

Fine art. 25. The powers of the State are exercised in accordance with the provisions of this constitution.

Art. 26. Legislative ability is exercised conjointly by the Rex and Parliament. Parliament consists of the Senate and the Sleeping room of Deputies.

Fine art. 27. Executive power is vested in the King, who exercises information technology through responsible Ministers, in accord with the provisions of this constitution.

Art. 28. Judicial power is exercised past the courts. Their sentences and judgments are pronounced and executed in the name of the King and in accordance with the law.

Chapter 5. The King [edit]

Fine art. 29. The King is the guardian of national unity and State integrity. He is the protector of their interests at all times. The Rex sanctions and promulgates the laws, appoints civil servants, and confers military rank, in accordance with the provisions of the constabulary. The Male monarch is the supreme commander of all the military forces. He confers decorations and other distinctions.

Art. thirty. The King has the right of immunity. Immunity annuls the legal consequences of a punishable human activity, merely it cannot prejudice the rights of individuals to compensation for amercement. An immunity may be granted at the opening of criminal proceedings, in the course of these proceedings or after the final sentence. Immunity is general or individual. The King has the correct of pardon. He may remit altogether, reduce or commute a penalty. The right of pardon in respect of acts punishable on private complaint shall be governed by the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Fine art. 31. The King represents the Country in all. relations with strange States. He declares war and concludes peace. If the country is not attacked, or is not the object, of a proclamation of war on the part of any other State, the previous consent of Parliament is necessary earlier war tin can be declared. If state of war be declared on the country, or if it be attacked, Parliament must be convoked at once.

Art. 32. The King convokes Parliament in ordinary or boggling session. The King in person opens and closes sessions past a voice communication from the Throne, or through the Council of Ministers by means of a message or prescript. When the King opens or closes sessions by a speech from the Throne, the Senate and the Sleeping room of Deputies sit together. The speech from the Throne, message or decree is countersigned by all the Ministers. The King may at any fourth dimension, according to the needs of the Land, convoke Parliament when it is adjourned. The Male monarch has the right to dissolve the Chamber and to guild fresh elections. The decree relating to the dissolution and that concerning the fresh elections shall be countersigned by all the Ministers.

Art. 33. The Male monarch may not be at the same be the head of any other State without the consent of Parliament.

Art. 34. Every written human activity of the Royal power shall be countersigned by the competent Minister or past the Council of Ministers. The minister who countersigned, or the Council of Ministers, is responsible for any act of Royal authority. The Minister for War and Marine is responsible for all acts of the King as supreme armed services commander.

Art. 35. The King and the Heir to the Throne attain majority at the historic period of 18. The King's person is inviolable. The King cannot be held responsible for anything any, nor can he be sued. This does non apply to the Rex'south individual belongings.

Art. 36. King Alexander 1, of the Karageorge dynasty, (2) reigns over the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. King Alexander shall be succeeded past his male descendants in the guild of primogeniture.

Fine art. 37. If the King has no male descendants, he shall designate his heir from the collateral line. If the King has not prior to his decease designated his heir, Parliament shall in joint session elect a Rex from the same dynasty.

Art. 38. The Majestic house consists of: The Queen Consort; the Rex'due south living ascendants and descendants in a direct line, with their wives and descendants; the younger brothers of the King and their descendants, with their wives; the sisters of the reigning King and all female descendants until they marry; Prince Ars?ne, uncle of King Alexander; Prince Paul, with his wife and descendants, including the female descendants until their marriage. (3) The relations and rank of members of the Royal house are regulated past a statute drawn up by the King.

Fine art. 39. When the King ascends the Throne, he takes an oath earlier Parliament as follows: «I (proper name), on ascending the Throne of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and assuming the Majestic ability, do swear past Omnipotent God that I volition preserve to a higher place all the unity of the nation, the independence of the State and the integrity of the national territory; that I will govern according to the constitution and the laws, and that I volition exist guided in all my aspirations by the welfare of the people. So assist me God! Amen.»

Art. xl. The Rex permanently resides in the country. If it is necessary for him to leave the country for a brusque time, the Heir to the Throne acts for him by right. If the Heir to the Throne is a minor or if he is prevented, the Council of Ministers human action on behalf of the King. This replacement is effected in accordance with the terms of the instructions issued past the Rex. This applies besides in the issue of an illness of the King which does non entail permanent incapacity. During the absence of the King or of the Heir to the throne, the Quango of Ministers has no right to deliquesce the Chamber. The King's replacement by the Quango of Ministers may non last longer than 6 months. After the expiration of this period, the provisions of the constitution regarding regency come into operation.

Chapter 6. Regency [edit]

Art. 41. The Regal potency is exercised past a Regency when the King

is a pocket-size;
is by reason of mental or concrete affliction permanently incapable of exercising the royal power.

If the King is permanently incapable of exercising the Royal power, Parliament decides in joint session the time of the establishment and of the termination of the Regency. When the Council of Ministers establishes the incapacity of the Male monarch, information technology communicates the fact to Parliament, together with the opinion of three doctors taken from the Faculties of Medicine of the country. The same procedure shall be followed when the Heir to the Throne is concerned.

Art. 42. The practice of the Regency appertains by right to the Heir to the Throne if he has attained his majority. If the Heir to the Throne, for one of the reasons enumerated in article 41, cannot exercise the ability of Regent, this shall be exercised by iii persons appointed by special act or past the volition of the Male monarch. At the same fourth dimension the King shall appoint a substitute for each of the 3 Regents. If the post of a Regent and that of his substitute become vacant, Parliament elects by secret vote, in joint session, a new Regent from, the 2 remaining substitutes. If only one of them is live, he succeeds to the vacant post of Regent without a vote being taken. In case the King has not appointed any Regents either by deed or by will, or if it is incommunicable to establish a Regency of at least two Regents, on business relationship of the illness or death of the Regents and their substitutes, Parliament elects by secret vote, in articulation session, the necessary number of Regents. The Regents must exist nationals of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Before assuming the Royal power, the Regents shall take oath before Parliament that they volition be loyal to the King and volition govern in accordance with the constitution and the laws of the country.

Art. 43. If ane of the three Regents is, temporarily absent or prevented, the other two may bargain with the business of State without him.

Art. 44. The Regents will supervise the education of the pocket-sized King. The guardians appointed under the King'southward volition shall manage the holding of the pocket-size Rex. If the deceased King has not appointed whatever guardians, the Regents shall brand provision for such in agreement with the presidents of the Council of State, the Court of Cassation, and the Supreme Inspect Department.

Art. 45. Until the Regents accept office the Council of Ministers shall provisionally practise the Royal ability, on their own responsibility.

Art. 46. In case of the death or abdication of the King, the Heir to the Throne, if he has attained his bulk, receives the Royal power at one time, announces information technology to the people by proclamation, and takes the prescribed adjuration before Parliament.

Art. 47. If the deceased King leaves no male descendants, and the Queen, at the time of the Rex's decease, is meaning, and if the Rex has not appointed Regents, by special act or by will, Parliament shall elect temporary Regents who volition exercise the Imperial power until the confinement takes place. The Government must submit to Parliament, prior to the ballot of the Regents, the opinion of three physicians taken from the Faculties of Medicine of the country regarding the pregnancy of the Queen. The same activeness shall be taken when the Heir to the Throne dies leaving his wife in a condition of pregnancy at the time of the King's expiry.

Art. 48. In the upshot of the Throne remaining without in Heir under the provisions of the nowadays constitution, the Council of Ministers shall assume the Royal ability and at one time convoke Parliament in special session, at which a determination shall be fabricated regarding the Throne.

Art. 49. The civil listing is fixed by police force. Once fixed, it cannot exist increased without the consent of Parliament, or decreased without the consent of the Rex. The Regents shall, during the exercise of their functions, receive from the national Treasury an amount fixed by Parliament on the proposal of the Council of Ministers.

Chapter 7. Parliament [edit]

The Senate [edit]

Art. 50. The Senate is equanimous of senators appointed by the King and elected senators. Senators may not be less than forty years one-time. Regulations regarding the number of senators elected and their election will exist prescribed by law. The Rex may nominate the same number of senators every bit those who are elected. No one may exercise at the same time the mandate of senator and that of deputy.

Fine art. 51. The mandate of elected senators lasts for 6 years. Every 3 years the Senate is received by fresh elections of one-half the number of the elected members.

Art. 52. The mandate of senators appointed by the King is for a period of 6 years. They may be removed from their duties on the proposal of the President of the Council of Ministers in the case of physical incapacity or if sentenced by the courts for an infraction of the Criminal Code. Civil servants on active service who are appointed senators may not retain their positions every bit ceremonious servants.

Fine art. 53. The Senate meets at the same time as the Chamber of Deputies and adjourns at the same time. The Senate itself examines and decides upon the validity of the mandates of elected senators.

The Chamber of Deputies [edit]

Fine art. 54. The Bedroom of Deputies is composed of members freely elected by the people on the basis of universal, equal and straight suffrage. The Sleeping accommodation of Deputies is elected for 4 years. The mandate of a deputy can elapse prior to the expiration of this term in cases prescribed by the electoral law. Regulations regarding the number and election of deputies will be laid down by law.

Art. 55. Every national by nascence or naturalisation has the right to vote if he has attained 21 years of age. Officers on the active listing, and likewise non-commissioned officers and soldiers with the colours, may neither exercise the right to vote nor be elected. The question of adult female suffrage shall be decided past law.

Art. 56. The right to vote is temporarily lost by

persons condemned to difficult labour or imprisonment for more than i year, until such fourth dimension as their rights are restored to them;
those condemned to loss of civil rights, during the period of their sentence;
individuals who are declared bankrupt;
those under the care of guardians;
those who have been deprived by judgment of the correct to vote on account of infractions of the electoral constabulary.

Fine art. 57. Only such persons may be elected senator or deputy every bit enjoy the right to vote, whether or not they are entered on the lists of voters. The post-obit conditions are required of every senator or deputy:

to be a national of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by nascency or naturalisation. Naturalised subjects must have been domiciled for at to the lowest degree 10 years in the Kingdom, counting from the date of naturalisation;
to be respectively 40 or 30 years of historic period; and
to speak and write the national language.

Loss of the right to vote entails also the forfeiture of the mandate of senator or deputy. Senators and deputies may not be at the aforementioned fourth dimension suppliers or contractors to the State.

Art. 58. Civil servants on the active list may not submit their names as candidates for the mandate of senator or deputy. Police, revenue and forest officials, as well as those dealing with agrarian reform, may non submit their names as candidates unless they accept resigned their duties one yr before the date of the prescript fixing the elections. Ministers on the agile list and those «en disponibilité» may be candidates.

Art. 59. Every senator and deputy represents the unabridged nation. All members of Parliament shall take an oath of fidelity to the King, engaging to a higher place all to preserve the unity of the people the independence of the State and the integrity of the national territory, and to Safeguard the constitution and be inspired solely by the public welfare.

Fine art. threescore. Parliament is convoked past Royal decree in Belgrade, the capital letter, in ordinary session, on xx Oct of each twelvemonth. If, in the event of war, the uppercase is transferred elsewhere, Parliament shall meet at the identify specified in the Royal decree convoking information technology. The ordinary session may not be airtight until the State budget has been voted.

Fine art. 61. The Chamber of Deputies itself examines and decides upon the powers of its members.

Art. 62. The Sleeping accommodation of Deputies elects its secretariat for each session from among its members.

Fine art. 63. Bills are introduced, with the Imperial consent, by the diverse Ministers. The right to introduce bills is vested in every Member of Parliament whose motion has the support in writing of at least one-fifth of the members of the Senate or Chamber of Deputies.

Fine art. 64. A nib passed past the Chamber of Deputies is forwarded to the Senate for debate and vice vers?. If the bill is passed without modification past both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate it is considered as passed past Parliament. If any modifications or amendments are made past the Senate or, every bit the case may be, by the Chamber of Deputies, the bill is returned to the Chamber of Deputies or the Senate for consideration. If these modifications or amendments are accepted by the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies or the Senate, the bill is considered equally passed by Parliament. If the Senate and the Bedchamber of Deputies cannot agree on a bill, either as a whole or as to particular details, the beak is considered as rejected and is removed from the agenda of the session. If this occurs again in the form of the following session, the King shall decide regarding the bill in question.

Art. 65. The King concludes treaties with strange States, simply for the ratification of these treaties the previous approval of Parliament is required. The approving of Parliament is not required for the ratification of purely political conventions. The approval of Parliament is necessary for a convention authorizing a foreign army to occupy or traverse the territory of the Kingdom. Parliament may, when it is to the interest of the State, qualify in advance the Quango of Ministers to decree measures for the immediate application of the proposed convention. State territory may not exist alienated or exchanged without the consent of Parliament.

Art. 66. The King promulgates laws by decree containing the text of the laws passed by Parliament. The decree in question is countersigned by all the Ministers. The Minister for Justice affixes the Seal of State and sees to the publication of laws in the Sluzhbene Novine. The police acquires binding forcefulness 15 days after its publication in the Sluzhbene Novine, unless the law itself provides otherwise. The twenty-four hours of publication in the Sluzhbene Novine is included.

Art. 67. Parliament has the correct of enquiry and investigation in balloter and purely administrative questions.

Art. 68. Every fellow member of the Senate and of the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies has the correct to address questions and interpellations to Ministers. Ministers must respond thereto during the same session.

Fine art. 69. The Senate and Chamber of Deputies communicate directly merely with the Ministers.

Art. 70. Right, of spoken language in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies appertains only to the senators and deputies, to members of the Government, and to commissioners of the Government designated for this purpose by Purple decree.

Art. 71. The deliberations of the Senate and the Bedchamber of Deputies are valid if one-tertiary of all the senators or deputies is present. A majority of the votes of the senators or deputies present is necessary for valid decisions. If the votes are equally divided, the movement voted on is considered accepted.

Art. 72. Earlier beingness finally accepted each pecker shall be voted upon twice during the same session.

Art. 73. Deliberations of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in joint session take identify but in the cases expressly specified. Joint sessions are presided over by the presidents of the Senate and of the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies alternatively.

Art. 74. A senator or deputy cannot exist held responsible by anyone for a vote greenbacks every bit fellow member of Parliament. For all statements or acts in the exercise of their mandates, whether in sessions of the Senate or of the Chamber of Deputies, or in committees, or in special missions, or in special delegations, constituted by order of the Senate or the Sleeping room of Deputies, senators and deputies are only responsible to the Senate or Bedchamber of Deputies in accordance with their regulations. For such statements and acts as constitute an infraction of the Criminal Code a senator or deputy shall be responsible to the ordinary courts, if the Senate or Sleeping accommodation of Deputies consent thereto. For insults, calumny or crimes a senator or deputy shall be responsible to the ordinary courts even without the previous consent of the Senate or of the Bedroom of Deputies.

Art. 75. Without the consent of the Senate or of the Sleeping room of Deputies their members may not be chosen upon to answer for offences committed outside the practice of their mandates, or exist deprived of their freedom during the validity of their mandate, except when caught in flagrante delicto. However in the latter instance, the Senate or Bedchamber of Deputies, if in session, is immediately informed and consents or refuses to permit the proceedings to continue during the session. The immunity of senators or deputies begins on the day of their election or nomination. If a national becomes a deputy or senator before judgment is passed on him for an offence, the authorities conducting the enquiry and exam shall inform the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies, as the example may be, which volition agree or refuse to allow the proceedings to take their grade. A member of the Senate or of the Chamber of Deputies cannot be held responsible except in respect of the deed for which his amnesty is forfeited.

Art. 76. The Senate and the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies take the exclusive right of maintaining lodge among their members through their presidents. No armed force may be stationed in the buildings or in the court without the consent of the president. Similarly no Government organ may effect whatsoever human activity of public authority in the Senate or the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies without the consent of the president. No armed person may enter the building of the Senate or the Chamber of Deputies, with the exception of those in the service of the Senate or Chamber of Deputies who are authorized by the regulations to carry arms.

Chapter VIII. The Executive Power [edit]

Art. 77. The King appoints and dismisses the President of the Council of Ministers and the Ministers. The President of the Council of Ministers and the Ministers form the Council of Ministers, which is straight under the King's orders. The Ministers are at the head of the dissimilar departments of State assistants. In that location may also exist Ministers without portfolios. Ministers appoint subordinate civil servants in accordance with the provisions of the law. Before taking part Ministers shall take an oath that they will be loyal to the King and will act in conformity with the constitution and laws.

Art. 78. The King and the Chamber of Deputies may indict Ministers for violation of the constitution and the laws of the country in the practice of their functions. The State is responsible to nationals for damages caused to them past Ministers through the illegal exercise of their functions, while Ministers are responsible to the State.

Fine art. 79. Ministers may be indicted both while in office and during the 5 years following their surrender of office. Motions relating to the indictment of Ministers must be in writing and must specify the points of indictment. When an accusation is brought past the Bedroom of Deputies confronting a Minister the conclusion bringing him earlier the courtroom requires a bulk of two-thirds of the members present.

Fine art. 80. More detailed rules regarding the responsibility of Ministers are independent in a special law.

Fine art. 81. The Executive Power may issue regulations necessary for the application of the laws.

Art. 82. Assistants in the Kingdom is effected through Banovinas, districts and communes.

Fine art. 83. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia compromises Banovinas, viz.:

The Drava Banovina, with headquarters at Ljubljana.
The Sava Banovina, with headquarters at Zagreb.
The Vrbas Banovina, with headquarters at Banja Luka.
The Declension Banovina, with headquarters at Split.
The Drina Banovina, with headquarters at Sarajevo.
The Zeta Banovina, with headquarters at Cetinje.
The Danube Banovina, with headquarters at Novi Sad.
The Morava Banovina, with headquarters at Niš.
The Vardar Banovina, with headquarters at Skopje.

The Drava Banovina is bounded past a line passing from the point where the northern boundary of the district of Cabar cuts the State frontier, then following the Country borderland with Italy, Austria and Hungary to a point where the State frontier with Hungary reaches the river Mura (north-east of Cakovac). From the river Mura, the boundary of the Banovina follows the eastern and and then the southern boundaries; of the districts of Lendava, Ljutomer, Ptuj, Šmarje, Brezice, Krsko, Novo Mesto, Metljika, Crnomelj, Kocevje and Logatec, including all the districts mentioned. The Sava Banovina is bounded on the northward, equally far as the river Mura, by the above-mentioned boundary of the Drava Banovina. Thereafter the boundary of this Banovina follows the river Mura, so the State frontier with Hungary to the point where this leaves the Drava; from this point the boundary of the Banovina follows the class of the Drava, so that of the Danube, every bit far as the northern boundary of the commune of Ilok. From this signal the boundary of the Banovina leaves the Danube and goes towards the Sava, following the eastern boundaries of the district, of Vukovar, Vinkovci and Zupanja; taking in these districts. It and then follows the class of the river Sava to the oral cavity of the river Una, then the class of the river Una as far as the northward-eastern boundary of the district of Dvor (s-westward of Kostajnica). From this point to the Adriatic (Morlaques canal) the purlieus of the Banovina follows the southern boundaries of the districts of Kostajnica, Petrinja, Glina and Virginmost, then the south-eastern purlieus of the commune of Vojnic and the eastern boundaries of the districts of Slunj, Korenica and Donji Lapac. The purlieus then passes forth the southern purlieus of the districts of Gracac and Gospic, which it includes. From the Adriatic declension the boundary follows the gorge of Ljubaški and the canal of Nova Poljana, passes between the islands of Maon and Planik, to rejoin, north of the islands of Olib and Silva, the State frontier on the Adriatic.

The Vrbas Banovina is bounded, from the n-eastern boundary of the district of Dvor (south-west of Kostajnica) by the river Una to the point where information technology flows into the Sava; information technology then follows the course of the Sava, which it leaves to follow the eastern boundaries of the districts of Derventa and Gracanica, as far as the river Bosna at the village of Dolac. Information technology and then continues along the southward-western boundary of the commune of Maglaj as far as the intersection of the boundaries of the three districts of Tešanj, Maglaj and Zepce. From this signal the boundary of the Banovina follows the northern boundary of the districts of Zepce, Zenica, and Travnik, to mount Vlasic (Ljuta Greda hill 1740); thence it passes by hill 1446, following the eastern slope of the Lesina (hill 1433), hill 1057, the Jelic (hill 1192), hill 1018, loma 1139, the Obrenovac, (hill 1167), so across the Radanja Planina, (hill 1366) and the Igrališta, (hill 1085), and upward to the Rakovec (colina 1217). From this point the boundary passes the villages of Podripci and Sultanovic, so passes between the villages of Gmici and Guvno to the Osoj (colina 888); it continues along the ridge, post-obit the Suljaga (loma 1533), the Demirovac (loma 1724), and the Crni Vrh (hill 1403), to the Mali Vitorog (hill 1748). From the Mali Vitorog the borderland follows the eastern and so the south-western boundary of the district of Glamoc to the foot of colina 1156, on mount Staretina; from there the purlieus cuts the western part of the plain of Livno, to the Troglav (colina 1913) on the south-western boundary of the commune of Livno, and follows this line to the Veliki Bat (hill 1851). From this point the boundary continues following the southern and western boundaries of the district of Bosanski Pebrovac as far as the intersection of the boundaries of the three districts of Donji Lapac, Knin and Bosanski Petrov. From this point to the n-eastern boundary of the commune of Dvor (south-w of Kostajnica) the boundary coincides with the boundary already indicated of the Sava Banovina.

The Declension Banovina is bounded on the due north by the southern boundaries already fatigued of the Sava and Vrbas Banovinas as far every bit the intersection of the limits of the three districts of Jajce, Bugojno and Travnik (Rakovce, hill 1217). From this point the boundary of the Banovina follows the eastern edge of the commune of Bugojno, and then the northern boundary of the district of Konjic, to continue along the eastern boundary of the districts of Konjic and Mostar up to the intersection of the boundaries of the districts of Mostar, Stolac and Nevesinje. It then continues along the eastern purlieus of the district of Stolac, which it includes. On the Adriatic the purlieus of the Banovina passes through the Neretva and Pelješac channels to join the maritime frontier of the State.

The Drina Banovina is divisional on the due west, as far as the Sava, by the boundaries above indicated of the Declension and Vrbas Banovinas, then on the due north past the river Sava to where it is joined by the Kolubara. From this confluence and up to the eastern boundary of the Coast Banovina (eastern boundary of the district of Konjic, hill 2058 on the Trskavica mountains) the boundary of the Drina Banovina follows the eastern boundaries of the districts of Posava (uppercase, Obrenovac), Tamnava, Kolubara (capital letter, Mionica) and Pozega, including the district of Ljubic. It then follows the eastern boundaries of the districts of Trnava and Dragacevo, then the southern and western boundaries of the commune of Moravica, continuing along the southern boundaries of the districts of Arilja, Zlatibor, Višegrad, Cajnice, Rogatica and Sarajevo.

The Zeta Banovina is divisional on the due north past the southern boundaries of the Coast and Drina Banovinas, already indicated, every bit far as the intersection of the boundaries of the three districts of Dragacevo, Zica and Studenica. From this point and as far as the national borderland with Albania, the purlieus of this Banovina follows the eastern boundaries of the districts of Studenica, Dezevo, Mitrovica, Drenica and Drin, including all these districts. Then the boundary coincides, up to the Adriatic Sea, with the Yugoslav-Albanian Land frontier. The Danube Banovina is bounded on the south-west by the boundaries already indicated of the Sava and Drina Banovinas, on the north and due north-east by the State frontiers with Hungary and Romania, up to the bespeak where the latter frontier meets the Danube. The boundary then follows the course of the Danube up to the eastern boundary of the district of Ram and so turns along the due south-eastern boundary of the Pozarevac commune. It and so follows the eastern boundaries of the districts of Morava, Lepenica, Kragujevac and Gruza, as far equally the Dulenski Crni Vrh (colina 919), turning towards the Gledic mountains and thence over the Krecane (hill 760) and Brzak (hill 822) upwards to the purlieus of the Drina Banovina on mount Kotlenik, near Crni Vrh (loma 768). The Morava Banovina is bounded on the north and the east by the Land frontiers with Romania and Bulgaria as for as the southern purlieus of the district of Luznica (at Descani Kladenac). From this point the boundary of the Banovina follows the southern boundaries of the districts of Luznica, Nish, Dobric, Prokuplje, Kosanica, Lab and Vucitrn, including all these districts, and at the intersection of the boundaries of the three districts of Vucitrn, Gracanica and Drenica information technology joins the higher up-indicated boundary of the Zeta Banovina. The boundary so continues northwards, coinciding with the boundaries of the Zeta, Drina and Danube Banovinas already indicated.

The Vardar Banovina is divisional on the north by the boundaries already indicated of the Zeta and Morava Banovinas, and on the east, south and west past the State frontiers with Bulgaria, Greece and Republic of albania.

Disputes apropos the Banovina boundaries will exist settled by the Minister for the Interior.

Fine art. 84. The Banovinas are at the aforementioned time authoritative and autonomous units. The sectionalisation of the Banovinas into districts and communes will be laid down in a special police force. The organisation of the municipal administrations and the delimitation of their jurisdiction will grade the object of a special law based on the principle of autonomy. Urban communes may by police force be organised on another ground.

Art. 85. The city of Belgrade, together with Zemun and Pancevo, forms a carve up administrative territory, which shall also include the other localities which may in future exist detached from the Banovina of the Danube to unite with the municipality of Belgrade, Zemun or Pancevo.

Art. 86. A Ban is at the head of each Banovina. The Ban represents the supreme authority in the Banovina. Bans are appointed by the King on the proposal of the President of the Quango of Ministers.

Art. 87. The Ban appoints, removes, pensions and dismisses authoritative officials within the limits divers by the law regarding the administration of Banovinas. Democratic Regime

Art. 88. As an democratic administrative body, each Banovina has a Banovina Council and a Banovina Committee.

Art. 89. The Banovina Quango is elected for a catamenia of 4 years by Universal, equal and straight vote, co-ordinate to the provisions of the police force. The Council elects from amongst its members the Banovina, Commission which is the executive body of the Banovina in democratic affairs. The Ban appoints and dismisses Banovina officials on the proposal of the Banovina Committee.

Fine art. xc. The Banovina Councils may organise the various branches of Banovina administration and autonomous life by means of Banovina, decrees, in accordance with the dominance contained in the law regarding the organisation of Banovinas and other laws. Banovina decrees have the force of law in the corresponding Banovinas. They may not be in disharmonize with provisions of the constitution or other laws in force; if they do disharmonize with these provisions they may not be applied.

Art. 91. Banovina Committees draft the Banovina decrees, upon which the Banovina, Councils decide. Banovina decrees are proclaimed and published past the Ban, who must request beforehand the concurrence of the Quango of State as regards the legality of the decrees. These may not be promulgated if the Quango of Country refuses its acquiescence. The Council of State must give or reject its consent within not more than ane month; if the Council fails to pronounce on the thing within that flow, its concurrence shall be considered every bit having been given.

Art. 92. The key State authorities shall see that the authoritative autonomous regime perform their functions inside the limits prescribed and in a manner not prejudicial to any full general interest of the State.

Art. 93. The Ban, or the State body designated by constabulary for this purpose, has the right to abrogate all decisions of the Banovina Quango and the Banovina. Committee, or of municipal convocations or councils which may be contrary to the constitution or the laws or decrees in force. Appeals against the Ban's decisions may exist lodged, inside the period prescribed by law, with the Council of State. Decisions or pronouncements which are, generally prejudicial to the interests of the Land may also be abrogated. In such cases, appeals against the determination must be submitted to the Minister for the Interior within the period prescribed past law. A Banovina Quango may be dissolved by Royal decree before the expiration of the 4 years' term on the proposal of the Government minister for the Interior, and fresh elections for the respective Banovina may exist ordered.

Art. 94. During its first session the Banovina Council shall come to a decision each year regarding the budget for the next twelvemonth, on the proposal of the Banovina Commission.

Art. 95. Banovina budgets shall be canonical by the Minister for Finance, and the State Audit Department shall verify their execution past inspecting the final accounts.

Art. 96. Communes are autonomous bodies. They may past special laws exist charged as well with executive functions, which they shall belch under the supervision of the administrative bodies delegated for this purpose.

Art. 97. Provisions regarding the arrangement and competence of autonomous Banovina and municipal authorities shall be prescribed past law.

Art. 98. Authoritative Courts are established for disputes of in administrative nature. Their seats, jurisdiction and organisation are laid down by law.

Art. 99. The Quango of State is the supreme administrative court. The manner in which members of the Quango of Land are appointed, as well as its composition, competence and procedure, are fixed by police force.

Affiliate IX. The Judicial Powers [edit]

Art. 100. Courts are independent. In administering justice they are subject to no authorisation, merely approximate in accord with police. Courts and judicial jurisdiction may only be established by law. The police force prescribes the mode of selection and appointment of presidents of courts and judges. State Sheriat judges shall have jurisdiction in the family unit and inheritance matters of Mussulmans.

Fine art. 101. Judges of all courts are permanent. A guess may not be relieved of his functions or removed for any reason whatsoever from office against his volition except under a decree or verdict of a regular court or a disciplinary prescript of the Courtroom of Cassation. No complaint may be brought against a estimate for the way in which he exercises his magisterial functions, without the consent and approval of the competent court. A approximate may non be even temporarily called upon to fill up any other salaried or honorary public function without his consent and the approval of the Court of Cassation. A estimate may be transferred simply with his own consent. Judges may remain in service up to the stop of their 70th year. Before this menstruum elapses they may be retired merely upon their written awarding or in the case of concrete or mental incapacity rendering information technology incommunicable to perform their duties. In the latter case decisions regarding their retirement shall exist taken by the Court of Cassation.

Chapter X. Finances and Domain of the State [edit]

Art. 102. Each year Parliament shall approve the State budget, which shall exist valid for 1 yr merely. The budget must be submitted to the Bedchamber of Deputies at the latest one month from the appointment of its meeting in ordinary session. The final accounts for the concluding expired fiscal year shall be submitted to the Bedchamber for inspection and approval simultaneously with the budget. The Chamber of Deputies may not increase the proposed department., but has the right to reduce and reject sure of them. The upkeep shall be approved by sections. The way in which the budget is to be drawn up and passed is prescribed by law. Savings effected under ane budget section or in ane fiscal year may not be expended to defray needs under another department or another year without the previous consent of Parliament.

Art. 103. Until the budget submitted to information technology is passed, Parliament may grant budgetary twelfths in respect of 1 or more months. If the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies is dissolved before the passing of the budget, the budget for the preceding twelvemonth shall exist extended by decree for a catamenia not exceeding iv months. If the budget is not passed during this period, the previous budget may exist extended by Royal decree up to the stop of the new fiscal year.

Fine art. 104. Country imposes and general taxes shall only be laid downward by constabulary. The Regime shall submit a report to the Chamber of Deputies, certified by Cite State Inspect Department, regarding the execution of agreements ended for Land loans and regarding their expenditure, in accord with the law.

Art. 105. The obligation to pay imposts is general, and all State taxes are equal throughout the whole land. The King and the Heir to the Throne pay State taxes on their private property. No permanent or temporary subsidies and no gifts or remuneration whatsoever may be paid out of the State Treasury if not based on constabulary.

Art. 106. State property is administered past the Minister for Finance unless otherwise provided for by law. A special constabulary shall govern the alienation of Country domains. The right of monopoly appertains to the State. Mines, waters, mineral springs and natural power are the property of the State. A special law shall govern the granting of mining, industrial or other concessions of any kind.

Art. 107. The State Inspect Department shall act as the supreme court of accountancy for the verification of State accounts and the supervision of the execution of the budgets of the State and authoritative and democratic bodies. The president and members of the State Audit Department are elected by the Sleeping room of Deputies from a listing of candidates prepared past the Council of State and including twice as many candidates as there are vacancies. The composition, competence and procedure of the Land Audit Section shall be adamant by police. The constabulary shall decide the cases in which appeals confronting decisions of the State Audit Department may be made to the Court of Cassation. The Country Audit Department examines, corrects and passes the accounts of the general administration and of all persons accountable for public funds. It sees that expenditure is restricted to the budgetary provisions and that no transfer is fabricated from 1 heading of the budget to some other. It closes the accounts of all State administrations and is responsible for the drove of all necessary show and information. The final Country accounts are submitted to Parliament for decision, with the observations of the State Audit Department, within a maximum of 1 yr from the close of the financial year.

Chapter XI. The Ground forces [edit]

Art. 108. Military service is general nether the law. The organization and forcefulness of the regular army and navy are prescribed by constabulary. The germination of units of the size laid down by law shall be decreed by the Rex, on the proposal of the Minister for War and Marine. The upkeep shall fix each year the number of effectives to be maintained with the colours.

Art. 109. War machine courts are independent. In administering justice they shall non be nether any authority whatsoever, but shall pronounce judgment in accordance with the laws. The judge of the armed services court of first. instance may not be indicted for his acts equally guess except with the consent of the Military Court of Appeal. The approximate of the Court of Appeal may non exist indicted without the consent of the Court of Cassation. The Courtroom of Cassation has cognizance in final instance of the sentences of armed forces courts.

Art. 110. Offences committed jointly by civilians and soldiers shall exist tried past civil courts, simply in time of state of war they shall be tried by armed services courts.

Art. 111. No 1 who has reached 20 years of historic period may obtain employment in the civil service or retain the same unless he has performed his military machine service or has been exempted in conformity with the provisions of the military police.

Art. 112. The army may only be used for maintaining internal order upon the asking of the competent civil authorities.

Art. 113. A strange army may non be taken into the service of our State, nor may the army of our State be put at the disposal of whatsoever foreign State without the previous approval of Parliament.

Affiliate XII. Modifications of the Constitution [edit]

Art. 114. Modifications to be made in the constitution shall be determined by the King, together with Parliament.

Art. 115. Proposed modifications in or additions to the constitution may only be introduced by the King or the Parliament. Such proposals must specifically state all the articles of the constitution which are to be altered or supplemented. If the proposal is fabricated by the Rex, information technology shall be communicated to the Senate and the Bedroom whereupon the Sleeping accommodation of Deputies must be immediately dissolved and a new Chamber convened at the latest within 4 months. If the proposal emanates from the Senate or the Bedroom of Deputies, a decision shall be arrived at by a majority of three-fifths of the full number of members of the Assembly, in accord with the manner prescribed for the passing of bills. The proposal shall so be submitted to the Senate or Chamber of Deputies, as the instance may be, which shall make up one's mind thereon by a bulk of three-fifths of the full number of senators or deputies. Upon the adoption of the proposal in the above manner, the Chamber of Deputies shall be dissolved and a new Bedchamber of Deputies convened at the latest within 4 months of the appointment of the adoption of the proposal. In both cases the Senate or the Bedroom of Deputies may only make up one's mind upon such changes in or additions to the constitution as are contained in the proposal for the examination of which the Assemblies are convened. The Senate or the Bedchamber of Deputies shall pronounce by a majority plus i of the total number of its members. If the Senate and the Sleeping room of Deputies neglect to concord as to the adoption of the proposed changes in or additions to the constitution, either in whole or in office, the further procedure shall be the same as in the case of other bills (article 64).

Art. 116. In case of state of war, mobilization, disorder or disturbances endangering public guild and the security of the Country, or in general if public interests are endangered, the Male monarch may, in such boggling case, decree all absolutely necessary extraordinary measures to be taken throughout the entire Kingdom or in any part thereof, irrespective of constitutional and legal prescriptions. All infrequent measures taken shall subsequently be submitted to Parliament for approving. Transitory Provisions

Art. 117. The Rex shall promulgate and publish laws by prescript until the date of the meeting of Parliament. These decrees shall. be countersigned by the President of the Quango of Ministers, the competent Government minister and the Minister for Justice.

Art. 118. All laws in forcefulness, with the exception of the police force of 6 Jan 1929, (iv) regarding the Imperial power and the supreme direction of the State, shall remain in operation until modified or cancelled in the ordinary way.

Art. 119. Provisions under article 101 of the present constitution volition not be applied during a period of five years; from the appointment of the entry into force of the constitution. Last Provisions

Art. 120. This constitution shall enter into force and go binding when published in the Sluzhbene Novine. The President of the Council of Ministers and all Ministers shall supervise the execution of the nowadays constitution. We order our Minister for Justice to publish this constitution, and all our Ministers to see to its execution, and we telephone call upon all government to act in accord with information technology and upon all and everyone to obey it.

ALEXANDER. Belgrade, September 3, 1931.