Article 125
(Form of acts)
1. In exercising his duties, the President of the Republic shall issue Presidential
legislative decrees, provisional Presidential legislative decrees, Presidential
decrees and Presidential dispatches, which shall be published in the Diário da
República (Official Gazette).
2. The acts of the President of the Republic referred to Article 120(e) shall take
the form of Presidential legislative decrees;
3. The a cts of the President of the Republic referred to Article
1190(a),(b),(e),(f),(g),(h),)i),(j),(k),(l),(m),(n),(o),(p),(q),(r),(u)
and
(v),
Article 120(g) and (l), Article 121(d), and Article 122(c),(d),(e),(f),(g),(h),(i)
and j), all of the Constitution, shall take the form of Presidential decrees.
4. Acts of the President of the Republic arising out of his duties as Commander
in-Chief of the Armed Forces and not prescribed in the previous points shall
take the form of Directives, Briefings, Orders and Dispatches of the
Commander-in-Chief.
5. Administrative acts of the President of the Republic shall take the form of
Presidential dispatches.
Article 126
(Provisional Presidential legislative decrees)
1. The President of the Republic may issue provisional Presidential legislative
decrees whenever, for reasons of urgency and need, this measure proves
necessary in order to defend the public interest, and must immediately submit
them to the National Assembly, which may convert them into laws, with or
without alterations, or may reject them.
2. Provisional Presidential legislative decrees shall have legal force.
3. Provisional Presidential legislative decrees on the following may not be
approved :
a) Matters which are reserved exclusively and absolutely for National
Assembly legislation;
b) The State Budget;
4. Provisional Presidential legislative decrees concerning matters for which laws
have already been approved by the National Assembly and are awaiting
enactment may also not be approved.
5. Provisional Presidential legislative decrees shall be published for periods of
sixty days, at the end of which they lose force unless they are converted into
laws by the National Assembly.
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