CONSTITUTION OF
(...)
Article
1
1.
(...)
Article
2
1.
The territory of the Georgian state is determined by the circumstances of the
country on
2.
The alienation of the
3.
The internal territorial arrangement of
4.
The citizens of
Article
3
1.
The Georgian supreme national bodies have exclusive power to administer:
a.
legislation on Georgian citizenship, human rights and freedoms, emigration and
immigration, entrance to and departure from the country, temporarily or
permanently resident foreign nationals and stateless persons, within the
territory of Georgia;
b. the status and administration of boundaries
and their protection; the status of territorial waters, airspace, the
continental shelf and special economic zones and their defence;
c. national defence
and security; military forces, military/ industrial production and the arms
trade;
d. the issues of war and cessation of
hostilities; the determination of the existence of and the introduction of a
state of emergency or martial law;
e. foreign policy and international relations;
f. custom and tariff regimes and foreign trade;
g. state finances and state loans; the minting
of money; legislation on banking, credit , insurance and taxes;
h. standards and measurements; geodesy and
cartography; time and state statistics;
i. a unified system of energy; communications;
the merchant fleet; flags of ships; harbours of state
importance; airports and airfields; the control of airspace; transit and air
transport; registration of air transport; meteorological services and a system
of environmental protection;
j. railways and roads of importance to the whole
state;
k. fishing in oceans and the high sea;
l. boundary-sanitary cordon;
m. legislation on pharmaceutical medicines;
n. certification and accreditation of secondary
and high schools, legislation on academic, scientific and professional titles
and honours;
o. legislation on intellectual property;
p. legislation on trade, criminal law, civil
law, administrative and labour law; legislation on a
criminal procedure and other legal proceedings;
r. police and criminal investigation;
s. legislation on land, minerals and natural
resources.
2.
Matters relating to joint federal administration will be determined separately.
Article
4
1.
When conditions are appropriate and self-government bodies have been
established throughout the
2.
The Council of
3.
The Senate consists of members elected from Abkhazia, Adjaria
and other territorial units of
4.
The composition, powers and procedures for election to the chambers are
determined by organic law.
(...)
Article
8
The state language of
(...)
(...)
a. envisages entrance into an international organisation or into inter-state unity;
b. is of a military character;
c. concerns the territorial integrity of the state or the
changing of the state’s borders;
(...)
Article 67
1. The right to initiate legislation is vested in
the President, a Member of Parliament, a Parliamentary Faction, a committee of
Parliament, the supreme representative bodies of Abkhazia and Adjaria or not less than 30 000 electors.
(...)
The
President of
Article 69
1. The President
of
(…)
Article 73
1. The President
of
g. in the case of
war, massive disorder, violation of territorial integrity of the country,
military coup, armed insurrection, ecological disaster or epidemic or in other
cases when bodies of the state are deprived of their authority - declares a
state of emergency throughout the whole territory of the state or its parts and
submits it to Parliament within forty eight hours for approval. In the case of
a state of emergency, the President is authorized to issue decrees with the
power of law and take special measures. The decrees are submitted to the
Parliament when it gathers. Emergency authorities extend only on the territory
where the emergency is declared for the reasons mentioned in this item;
h. halts or dismisses the activity of representative
bodies of local self-government, or territorial units if their activity
endangers the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country or the
exercise of Constitutional authority of state authorities within the country;
(...)
The Judiciary
(...)
Article 83
1. The legal body
for Constitutional supervision is the Constitutional Court of Georgia. Its
authority, rights of creation and activity are determined by the Constitution
and organic law.
(…)
Article 89
1. The
Constitutional Court of Georgia upon the Complaints or Submission of the
President, of not less than one fifth of the Members of Parliament, of the
courts, of supreme representative bodies of Abkhazia and Adjaria,
of the public defenders or of a citizen and under the rules established by
organic law:
a. decides the Constitutionality of the law, the
President’s normative acts and the normative acts of the supreme bodies of
authority of Abkhazia and Adjaria;
(…)
24 August 1995
(www.parliament.ge; The
Constitution of Georgia, Tbilisi, 1996, pp. 137-174)