STATUTE of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

Chapter I

General Provisions

3. The sittings of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR shall be held in a form of regular and special sessions.

8. The work of the session of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR is held:

b) at the sessions of the Soviet of the Union;

b) at the sessions of the Soviet of Nationalities;

c) at the joint session of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities.

Chapter III

On the Soviet of Nationalities of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR

25. The Council of Nationalities shall hold its sittings only at the time of sessions of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.

29. The following organs are authorized to submit the issues for discussion to the Council of Nationalities: the Council of Nationalities itself and its Presidium, the Union Council and its Presidium, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, the Council of Public Commissars of the USSR, certain public commissariats of the USSR, central executive committees of the Union Republics, central executive committees of the autonomous republics, executive committees of the autonomous oblasts and also the members of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.

12 November 1923

(Constitution and Constitutional Acts of the USSR (1922-1936). The Collection of Documents. Moscow, 1940, p. 25-31/in Russian)