DECREE N 128 ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOVIET GEORGIA On reorganizations of the District Court of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast and of the Supreme Court of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

On the basis of the Note to Article 1 of the Decree N 52 on adoption of the Regulations on the Court Arrangement of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia and the Resolution adopted by the Central Executive Committee of the South Ossetian Autonomous oblast of 52 August of this year, the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Georgia Decrees:

1. To give the name of the Major Court of the South-Ossetian Autonomous Oblast to the District Court of the South-Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.

2. The members of the Major Court of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall be appointed by the Central Executive Committee of this Oblast.  The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Major Court shall be nominated by the Central Executive Committee of the South-Ossetian Autonomous Oblast and approved by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Georgia.

3. Two representatives from the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall be included in the Supreme Court of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic with the full rights of the members of the Supreme Court.

4. The member of the Supreme Court from the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall participate in the Cassation Board of the Supreme Court while the applications or protests are submitted on the judgments made by the courts of South Ossetia.

5. The member of the Supreme Court from the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall attend the Court Plenum if the case discussed will be preceded at the courts of South Ossetia or is launched in practice of these courts.

6. The member of the Supreme Court from South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall be elected by the Central Executive Committee of this oblast and approved by the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Georgia.

Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Georgia M. Tskhakaia

Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Georgia S. Todria

12 December 1924

(Collection of Law and Decrees issued by the Workers and Peasants Government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia, N 7, 1924, p. 2-3)