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valid six months after the day when the National Assembly meets, unless they are earlier repealed or
amended, or re-approved and re-promulgated as laws.
(3) Decrees of the President of the Republic designated as constitutional, including this
constitutional decree, may also be repealed or amended by means of an ordinary law. This
regulation shall not however in any way affect the provisions of Article 1 of the law that introduces
the Constitution Number 121/1920, with regard to constitutional laws issued
up to September 29, 1938.
(4) Decrees issued abroad by the President of the Republic in accordance with Section 64, Paragraph 1,
No. 10 of the Constitution, and by the government in accordance with Section 55 of the Constitution,
shall not be affected by the regulation of Article 1 Paragraph 2.
Chapter II
On decisions by courts and administrative authorities
First part
General regulations on decisions by courts and administrative authorities
Article 6
(1) All decisions by courts and the public administration, including final and conclusive ones, that were
issued during the period of lack of freedom, shall be cancelled or amended, even if the general regulations
from the period up to September 29, 1938 inclusive do not allow for this, in the following cases:
a) should they have been issued in accordance with regulations whose content is contrary to the wording
or democratic principles of the Czechoslovak constitution (Article 2 Para.1),
b) should they be directed towards an aim that is forbidden by Czechoslovak law. Decisions issued during
the period of lack of freedom may also be cancelled or amended on the grounds given here in cases when
the decision was issued without any legal regulation.
c) should it have been impossible or very difficult, due to the exceptional conditions of the period of lack
of freedom, for a party to attend the proceedings or produce evidence, or should persons taking part in the
proceedings have been subjected to duress.
(2) The provisions of Paragraph (1), Letters a) and b), shall not apply to decisions relating to public taxes,
public credit, and organisational measures in the currency field.
(3) Decisions issued during the period of lack of freedom may be cancelled or amended on the grounds
that persons taking part in the proceedings have been subjected to duress according to Paragraph 1, Letter
c), in cases where the decision was not made in accordance with the law or was not made in the way the
decision would have been made in the period of freedom according to established practice,
a) because a party or a person close to that party had been maliciously treated, or harm had been caused
to their body, freedom, honour, property, or earnings, or they had been threatened with such harm, and
for this reason and due to the conditions of the period of lack of freedom the party had been unable to
defend his interests properly, or
b) because a witness or expert, or a person close to that witness or expert, had been subjected to such
duress during the proceedings, and for this reason and due to the conditions of the period of lack of
freedom had not given a proper or complete testimony or expert opinion, or
c) because the judge or official who presided over the proceedings or issued the decision acted under such
duress or acted in accordance with official instructions or in accordance with the instructions of the
occupying authority.
(4) Should such a decision (Paragraph 1) have been issued by administrative authorities, it may also be
cancelled or amended by virtue of office.
(5) A party shall be able to propose the cancellation or amendment of a decision in accordance with
Paragraph 1, Letter a, b, or c, up until June 17, 1949 at the latest. Within the same time limit the
administrative office must notify the parties that it has commenced proceedings so that the decision be
amended or cancelled by virtue of office in accordance with Paragraph 2 of this Article.
Article 7
(1) Article 6 shall not apply to official decisions by organs of the system of state government abroad nor
to decisions by provost courts established according to the Decree of the President of the Republic of
October 26, 1940 on Czechoslovak provost courts, No. 5 in the Czechoslovak Official Gazette.
(2) The time limit for lodging a complaint with the supreme administrative court against a decision by
the administrative authorities of the system of state government abroad (Section 14 of the law on the
supreme administrative court as amended in the appendix to Law No. 164/1937), the time limit for
seeking redress against findings by these offices on private law claims (Section 2 of the law by which
Section 105 of the Constitution is implemented, No. 217/1925), and the time limit for applications for
the lodging of petitions for exceptional renewal of provost court proceedings (Section 483 of the military
criminal procedure code as amended by the law on military provost court criminal proceedings
No. 115/1937), shall commence one year after the day the period of lack of freedom ends.