Peoples’ Representatives is not in session shall be submitted to it
within fifteen days of its adoption.
3. A state of emergency decreed by the Council of Ministers, if approved by
the House of Peoples’ Representatives, can remain in effect up to six
months. The House of Peoples’ Representatives may, by a two-thirds
majority vote, allow the state of emergency proclamation to be renewed
every four months successively.
4. (a) When a state of emergency is declared, the Council of Ministers shall,
in accordance with regulations it issues, have all necessary power to
protect the country’s peace and sovereignty, and to maintain public
security, law and order.
(b) The Council of Ministers shall have the power to suspend such political
and democratic rights contained in this Constitution to the extent necessary
to avert the conditions that required the declaration of a state of
emergency.
(c) In the exercise of its emergency powers the Council of Ministers can
not, however, suspend or limit the rights provided for in Articles 1, 18, 25,
and sub-Articles 1 and 2 of Article 39 of this Constitution.
5. The House of Peoples’ Representatives, while declaring a state of
emergency, shall simultaneously establish a State of Emergency Inquiry
Board, comprising of seven persons to be chosen and assigned by the
House from among its members and from legal experts.
6. The State of Emergency Inquiry Board shall have the following powers
and responsibilities:
(a) To make public within one month the names of all individuals arrested
on account of the state of emergency together with the reasons for their
arrest.
(b) To inspect and follow up that no measure taken during the state of
emergency is inhumane.
(c) To recommend to the Prime Minister or to the Council of Ministers
corrective measures if it finds and case of inhumane treatment.
(d) To ensure the prosecution of perpetrators of inhumane acts.
(e) To submit its views to the House of Peoples’ Representatives on a
request to extend the duration of the state of emergency.
Article 94
Financial Expenditures
1. The Federal Government and the States shall respectively bear all financial
expenditures necessary to carry out all responsibilities and functions
assigned to them by law. Unless otherwise agreed upon, the financial
expenditures required for the carrying out of any delegated function by a
State shall be borne by the delegating party.
2. The Federal Government may grant to States emergency, rehabilitation
and development assistance and loans, due care being taken that such