Article (32)
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The Judiciary Authority shall be independent. It shall be exercised by courts of justice of
different sorts and competences. They shall issue their judgments in accordance with the
law. Judges shall be independent, subject to no other authority but the law and
conscience.
Establishing Exceptional Courts shall be prohibited.
Article (33)
Right of resorting to judiciary shall be preserved and guaranteed for all people. Each and
every citizen shall have the right to resort to his natural judge. The State shall guarantee
to bring the judiciary authorities near the litigants and shall guarantee the swift
determination on lawsuits.
Laws shall not provide for the prohibition of judiciary authority to control any
administrative decree.
Part Five
Conclusive Provisions
Article(34)
The constitutional documents and laws which were applicable before applying this Declaration
shall be repealed.
Article(35)
All the provisions prescribed in the existing legislations shall continue to be effective in so far as
they are not inconsistent with the provisions hereof until they are amended or repealed. Each
reference in these legislations to the “People’s Congresses”, the “General People's Congress”,
shall be deemed as a reference to the Interim Transitional National Council or to the National
Public Conference. Each reference to “General People's Committee” or the “People's
Committees” shall be deemed as a reference to the Executive Office, to the members of the
Executive Office, to the interim government or to the members thereof each within its respective
area of jurisdiction. Each reference to (Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) shall be
deemed as a reference to (Libya).
Article(36)
No cancellation or amendment shall be made to any provision contained herein save with another
provision issued by the Interim Transitional National Council and by the majority of two thirds
of the members of the Council.
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