DECREE on changes
and amendment to the Regulations on Arrangement of the Courts issued by the Central
Executive Committee of Georgia
(Approved at the Second Session of the CEC of
the third Convocation on 18 July 1925)
The Central Executive Committee of
II. The Articles of the Regulations of the
Court Arrangement 4, 14, 29, 30, 35, 37, 41, 44 (b), 49, 56,57, 58, 64, 72, 73,
74, 79, 80, 82(b), 83,84,86,99,103,104 (2), 111, 118, 129, 130, 132 (previous
numeric number - 131), 138 (previous numeric number 135) and 139 (previous
numeric number 136) shall be changed as follows:
Article 4. The authority of the District Court
applies to the territory where the court is established. The Court of the Oblast with
cassation-revision competence acts in the capacity of the first instance court
for the cases of special category specified for in the civil and criminal
procedural code.
Note: The following Courts are operating on the
territory of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia: a) District Court of
East Georgia – within he borders of
Article 14. The number of regions and the
borders of the regions shall be determined by the Public Commissar of Justice
upon agreement with the relevant executive committee and the District Court;
the decision shall be approved by the Presidium of the Central Executive
Committee of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.
III.
To add to the Regulations sec. c of Article 2;
Article 73; Article 86 and note, Article 101 and note, Article 127 and note,
Articles 131,133,134 and 140.
Article 101.
The Chairman of the Supreme Court, Deputy Chairman and the members of
the Panel shall be appointed by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet
Socialist Republic of Georgia at its own discretion; the other members shall be
appointed upon submission by the Public Commissar of Justice.
Note: two members from the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall be included in the Supreme
Court; they shall be elected by the Central Executive Committee of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast and approved by the Presidium of
the Central Executive Committee of the Georgian SSR. The members elected from the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall participate in the work of
Cassation Panel while the cases regard the judgment of the Major Court of South
Ossetian Autonomous Oblast or if a protest is lodged
against judgments or rulings; There presence at the Panel’s sitting is
obligatory if the case regards any affairs from the practice of this court, as
well as of the cases specified for in Article 447 of the Criminal Procedural
Code.
Chairman of the Central Executive committee of
Georgia Ph. Makharadze
Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of
Georgia –
(Messenger of the CEC and the Council of Public
Commissars, N 21, 1925, p. 22-23; Collection of Decrees and Resolutions of the
Workers and Peasants Government of Georgia, N 3, 1925, p. 22-23)