constituteproject.org PDF generated: 04 Jan 2016, 20:27 Article 56 The laws establishes the rules concerning: • the organization of the public powers; • the distribution of the competences between the State and the local collectivities as well as the creation of offices, of public establishments, and of national companies or enterprises; • the enjoyment and the exercise of the civil and civic rights, nationality, the estate and the security of persons, the organization of the family, the regime of property and of inheritance and of the law of obligations; • the fundamental guarantees accorded to the citizens for the exercise of their public freedoms and the requirements imposed by the national defense; • the electoral regime; • the fundamental guarantees accorded to the civil and military functionaries; • the determination of crimes and misdemeanors and the penalties applicable to them, the criminal procedure, amnesty, the judicial organization, the status of judges, of the ministerial officers and of the juridical and judiciary professions and the organization of the prison regime; • the general principles of education; • the fundamental principles of the right to work, of the syndical right and of social security; • the basis, rates and the modalities of collecting taxes of any nature; • the regime of issuance of money, of credit, and of banks and of insurance. Article 57 The matters other than those that are of the domain of the law by virtue of this Constitution belong to the regulatory power. • Constitutional court powers • Initiation of general legislation The texts of legislative form intervening in these matters can be modified by decree if the Constitutional Council, at the demand of the President of the Republic, declares that they have a regulatory character by virtue of the preceding paragraph. Article 58 The initiative of law belongs concurrently to the President of the Republic and to the members of the National Assembly. The President of the Republic and the Deputies have the right of amendment. Article 59 The proposals, Bills and amendments which are not of the domain of the law are irreceivable. The irreceivability is declared by the President of the National Assembly after the deliberation of the Bureau. • Constitutional court powers Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010) In case of dispute, the Constitutional Council, referred to the matter by the President of the National Assembly or the President of the Republic decides in a time of twenty days. Page 13