On the enforcement of the constitutional act on the autonomy and
independence of the republic of Slovenia
Article 1
Under this law, the Organs of the Republic of Slovenia assume the
implementation of the rights and obligations which under the
Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia and the Constitution of the
SFRY were transferred to the organs of the SFRY.
Article 2
The term of office of the delegates from the Republic of Slovenia
to the Federal chamber of the Assembly of the SFRY expires. The term
of office of the delegates of the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia
to the Chamber of the Republics and provinces of the Assembly of the
SFRY who performed this office until this law became effective, and
the term of office of the delegates of the Assembly of the Republic of
Slovenia to the Chamber of Republics and provinces of the Assembly of
the SFRY who were elected at the joint session of all chambers of the
Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia on July 30, 1990, likewise
expire. The Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia shall elect a 12
member delegation which under the Assembly's authorization shall
participate in negotiations in the SFRY Assembly on the procedure of
the dissolution of the former SFRY, negotiations on the setting of
current issues and negotiations on the possible creation of a
community of sovereign states on the territory of the former SFRY.
The former member of the SFRY Presidency from the Republic of Slovenia
is authorized as the representative of the Republic of Slovenia and in
accordance with the guidelines issued by the Assembly of the Republic
of Slovenia to participate in the work of the SFRY Presidency until
the termination of the process of dissolution of the SFRY. In the
implementation of the tasks under this law, the state organs of the
Republic of Slovenia shall cooperate with the corresponding organs of
the former SFRY.
Article 3
International agreements concluded by Yugoslavia and relating to
the territory of the Republic of Slovenia will be effective on the
territory of the Republic of Slovenia. The Executive Council of the
Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia shall within three months submit
to the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia the list of international
agreements relating to the Republic of Slovenia on the basis of which
list the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia shall adopt the act on
notification of other parties to these international agreements.
Article 4
The federal regulations which were effective in the Republic of
Slovenia at he moment of enforcement of this law shall remain in force
in the Republic of Slovenia until the adoption of the corresponding
regulations by the Republic of Slovenia provided they are not
inconsistent with the legal order of the Republic of Slovenia and
unless otherwise defined under this law. The competences of the
organs and organizations of the SFRY under the regulations referred to
in the preceding paragraph shall in accordance with this law be
transferred to the organs and organizations of the Republic of
Slovenia. If such organ or organization does not exist, the Executive
Council of the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia shall determine a
competent interim organ or organization.
Article 5
The Bank of Slovenia, the Republican Customs Administration, the
Republican Foreign Exchange Inspectorate, the Republican Air Traffic
Administration, the Republican Telecommunications Administration, the
Bureau of Standards and Measures of the Republic of Slovenia and the
Institute for Industrial Property Protection of the Republic of
Slovenia shall start operating as from the day when this law comes
into force. The institutions referred to in the first para of this
article shall take over their competences in accordance with the law
or under an agreement with the corresponding organs of the former
SFRY.
Article 6
The administrative organs of the SFRY and their units or parts
which performed the tasks from their sphere of activity on the
territory of the Republic of Slovenia shall be taken over by the
administrative organs of the Republic of Slovenia. The employees in
the organs referred to in the preceding para shall continue working as
employees of the administrative organs of the Republic of
Slovenia. The time limit within which these employees will be obliged
to fulfil the prescribed general conditions for employment in the
organs of the Republic of Slovenia shall be determined by law.
Article 7
Diplomatic and consular missions, cultural and information centres
and other SFRY representations abroad established under the law on the
conduct of foreign affairs falling under the competence of federal
administrative organs and federal organizations (Official gazette of
the SFRY, no 56/81) shall cease to perform the tasks in their sphere
of competence for the Republic of Slovenia and its citizens and legal
entities abroad unless otherwise determined by a decision of the
Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia or under an agreement with the
corresponding organs of the former SFRY. The Executive council of the
Republic of Slovenia may with the prior consent of the Commission for
international relations of the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia
conclude within the former SFRY an agreement authorizing the SFRY
diplomatic and consular missions, cultural and information centres and
other representations abroad to represent or protect the interests of
the Republic of Slovenia and its subjects and legal entities abroad.
Article 8
All judicial and administrative procedures instituted in the organs of the SFRY shall continue
in the competent organs of the Republic of Slovenia.
Individual legal acts which were issued by the organs of the SFRY or the organs of other
Yugoslav republics but which have not been enforced shall be enforceable in the territory of
the Republic of Slovenia under the principle of genuine reciprocity and under condition that
they are not inconsistent with the legal order of the Republic of Slovenia.
Individual legal acts issued by the organs of other republics of the former SFRY after this law
becomes effective shall be effective in the Republic of Slovenia in the cases and manner and
under the conditions applicable to individual legal acts of foreign states.
Article 9
The Republic of Slovenia shall take over the administration of all
movable and immovable property in the territory of the Republic of
Slovenia which property until the enforcement of this law was under
the administration of Federal organs and the commands, units and
institutes of the Yugoslav people's army (YPA). The takeover of the
YPA property shall be carried out gradually until the end of 1993 at
the latest, in accordance with the regulations of the Presidency of
the Republic of Slovenia, the property referred to in the previous
para, which until the enforcement of this law was under the
administration of YPA commands, units and institutes, be taken over
for administration by the commands, units and institutes of the
Territorial Defence of the Republic of Slovenia.
Article 10
The Executive Council of the Republic of Slovenia shall within three months propose to the
Assembly of Slovenia the guidelines for negotiations towards determining the corresponding
share of the Republic of Slovenia in immovable and movable property of the SFRY in the
territory of Yugoslavia and in third countries, taking into consideration the share which the
Republic of Slovenia has contributed to the property of the SFRY.
Article 11
The Republic of Slovenia shall on the basis of an agreement on the
legal succession of the SFRY take part of the SFRY national debt which
refers to the Republic of Slovenia and that part of the SFRY-guaranted
debtor obligations whose beneficiaries are legal entities based on the
territory of the Republic of Slovenia. The Republic of Slovenia shall
take over the corresponding part of the SFRY national debt whose
immediate beneficiary is not ascertainable. The Executive Council of
the Republic of Slovenia is authorized to negotiate the takeover of
the parts of the SFRY national debts referred to in the first and
second paragraphs of this article.
Article 12
The national archives of the SFRY kept in the territory of the
Republic of Slovenia shall belong to the Republic of Slovenia. All
national archives of the SFRY which have their origin in the territory
of the Republic of Slovenia shall belong to the Republic of Slovenia.
The Republic of Slovenia shall take over the SFRY claims which concern
the national archives in third countries and have their origin in the
territory of the Republic of Slovenia, and the national archives in
third countries which relate to the Republic of Slovenia. The
Executive Council of the Republic of Slovenia shall take all necessary
steps to obtain the national archives referred to in the second and
third paragraphs of this article and to determine the equitable share
of the Republic of Slovenia in other national archives of the SFRY.
Article 13
The citizens from other republics who on the day of the plebiscite
on the independence and autonomy of the Republic of Slovenia, December
23, 1990, were permanent residents in the Republic of Slovenia and
actually live in Slovenia shall, until they obtain citizenship of the
Republic of Slovenia of Slovenia under Article 40 of the Law on
Citizenship in the Republic of Slovenia, or until the expiry of the
terms determined in Article 81 of the Law on Foreign Persons, have the
same rights and obligations as the citizens of the Republic of
Slovenia, except in cases specified under Article 16 of this law.
Article 14
Persuant to the agreement under Article 9 of this law, the Republic
of Slovenia guarantees the active military personnel, professional
soldiers and civilians employed in the Yugoslav People's Army the
status, social and other rights obtained prior to the enforcement of
this law under Federal regulations in the commands, this and
institutions of the YPA which, under article 4 of the Constitutional
law on Amendments XCVI and XCVII TO THE Constitution of the Republic
of Slovenia relating to national defence, are renamed the commands,
units and institutions of the Territorial Defence of the Republic of
Slovenia, provided that, within the period defined by the act of
renaming, they continue employment as members of the Territorial
Defence of the Republic of Slovenia. The Republic of Slovenia also
guarantees the rights referred to in the preceding para to other
active military personnel, professional soldiers and civilians
employed in YPA who continue employment in the Territorial Defence of
the Republic of Slovenia.
Article 15
The military obligation of the citizens of the Republic of Slovenia who on the day this law
becomes effective are performing their regular military service in the YPA shall be
discontinued with the day this law comes into force. Their discharge from the YPA shall be
regulated by the competent organs of the Republic of Slovenia in agreement with the organs
of the SFRY.
The Republic of Slovenia guarantees legal protection to all citizens of the Republic of
Slovenia whose obligatory YPA military service terminates in accordance with this law.
Article 16
Physical persons who on the day this law becomes effective have no
citizenship in the Republic of Slovenia and legal entities whose seat
on the day this law becomes effective lies outside the Republic of
Slovenia shall, on the basis of genuine reciprocity and until the
rights and other real rights regarding immovable property guaranteed
to the extent that these rights were enjoyed by them on the day this
lax comes into force. Until the regulation of the rights of foreign
persons to immovable property, the persons referred to in the
preceding para cannot obtain property rights or other real rights to
immovable property in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia except
on the basis of inheritance and on conditions of reciprocity.
Article 17
Delegates from the Republic of Slovenia to the Federal Chamber of
the Assembly of the SFRY and delegates of the Assembly of the Republic
of Slovenia to the Chamber of the Republics and Provinces of the SFRY
Assembly whose term expires under Article 2 of this law shall be
guaranteed by the Republic of Slovenia the rights enjoyed by the
officials of the Republic of Slovenia, or the officials of the former
SFRY if the latter is for favourable for them. Persons who at the
proposal of the organs of the Republic of Slovenia were elected to
office or appointed to jobs in the organs of the former SFRY and whose
term of office or employment in the SFRY organs expires shall be
guaranteed by the Republic of Slovenia the rights enjoyed by the
officials or employees in the government organs of the Republic of
Slovenia, or the organs of the former SFRY if the latter is more
favourable for them.
Article 18
The Republic of Slovenia shall guarantee the protection of the
rights of veterans, disabled veterans, members of the families of
fallen combatants and recipients of military pensions who have
permanent residence in the Republic of Slovenia, and the rights of
veterans, disabled veterans and members of the families of fallen
combatants of the Yugoslav People's Liberation War in the Province of
Friuli Venezia-Giulia in the Republic of Italy and the Province of
Carinthia in the Republic of Austria, to the extent and under the
conditions prescribed by the SFRY regulations prior to the enforcement
of this law.
Article 19
The bank of Slovenia shall take over the guarantee for the dinar
savings deposits and resources on the current accounts of citizens in
banks within the territory of the Republic of Slovenia which prior to
the enforcement of this law were guaranteed by the National Bank of
Yugoslavia, as per the state of the deposits and accounts on the day
this law becomes effective. The Bank of Slovenia shall take over the
guarantee for the Postal Savings Bank dinar deposits and current
account deposits of citizens with permanent residence on the territory
of Slovenia, which deposits prior to the enforcement of this law were
guaranteed by the National bank of Yugoslavia, as per the state of
accounts on the day this saw becomes effective. The Republic of
Slovenia shall take over the guarantee for foreign exchange on foreign
exchange account and savings books deposited in the banks on the
territory of the Republic of Slovenia, which foreign exchange
resources prior to the enforcement of this law were guaranteed by the
SFRY, as per the state on the day this lax becomes effective.
Article 20
The provisions of the criminal law of the SFRY (Official Gazette of
the SFRY, no 44/76, 34/84, 74/87, 57/89 and 38/90) under which the
SFRY, its legal system, its organs, its representatives or state
symbols are designated as the subject of legal protection, or which in
some other way determine the protection in terms of that lax relative
to the former territory of the SFRY or the former citizenship in the
SFRY, shall be applied in the Republic of Slovenia as provision for
the protection for the protection of the Republic of Slovenia, its
legal system, its organs, representatives and state symbols,
i.e. legal protection under criminal law shall be limited to the
territory and to citizenship in the Republic of Slovenia unless these
are protected under the criminal law of the Republic of Slovenia
(Official Gazette of the SRS, no 12/77, 3/78, 19/87, 47/87, 33/89 and
5/90). As regards the enforcement of the criminal laws of the
Republic of Slovenia for criminal offences committed outside the
territory of the Republic of Slovenia, the provisions of Chapter XII
of the criminal law of the SFRY shall be applied with the proviso that
they be restricted to the criminal legislation of the Republic of
Slovenia and that criminal offences committed outside the territory of
the Republic of Slovenia be considered as criminal offences committed
abroad.
Article 21
The Executive Council shall be charged with enforcing this lawand
shall within its competences adopt acts and measures necessary for its
implementation and notify the Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia
every three months at the shortest.
Article 22
Irrespective of Article 74 of the Law on Foreign Affairs, Article
39 of the Law on the Organization and Sphere of Activity of the
Republican Administration and Article 18 of the Price act, the above
laws shall come into force with the day this law becomes effective.
Article 23
This law becomes effective with the day of its promulgation.
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