DECREE on certain changes and amendments to the Regulations on Court Arrangement in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia

(Adopted at the Second Session of the Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR of the Second Convocation on 28 February 1924)

The Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR Decrees:

To introduce the following changes to the Regulations of the Court Arrangement:

5. Chapter XI. I. The Procurator

83. The Procurator’s Office is led by the Procurator of the Republic – the Public Commissar of Justice.  The Department of Procurator of the Justice Commissariat is under the direct subordination of the Prosecutor of the Republic.

85. The Prosecutor of the Republic shall be included in the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR and the Council of the Public Commissars with the deliberative vote if he has no casting vote upon election.

86. The Prosecutor of the West Georgia, the prosecutor of the East Georgia and the Prosecutor of the Marshal Court shall be in direct subordination to the prosecutor of the Republic.

87. The Prosecutors in the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and the Autonomous oblast of South Ossetia shall be appointed and dismissed by the executive committees of this Republic and oblast respectively and within this republic or oblast they shall enjoy all of the relevant rights, but in the issues relating to the common legislation of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Procurator’s Offices of Adjara and South Ossetia shall be subordinate to the Prosecutor of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and accountable to him. 

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR – M. Tskhakaia

Public Commissar of Justice of Georgian SSR – I. Vardzieli

Secretary of the Executive Committee – P. Sabashvili

19 April 1924

(Collection of Law and Decrees issued by the Workers and Peasants Government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, N 1, 1924, p. 51-62)