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Article 119
The National Assembly meets in extraordinary Session at the demand of the Prime
Minister or of the majority of its members, on a specific agenda.
When the extraordinary Session is held at the demand of the members of the
National Assembly, the decree of cloture intervenes once it has exhausted the
agenda for which it had been convoked and at the latest fifteen (15) days counting
from the date of opening of the Session.
The Prime Minister may only demand one new Session before the expiration of the
month which follows the Decree of cloture.
• Extraordinary legislative sessions
Article 120
Except in the case in which the National Assembly meets of plain right, the
extraordinary Sessions are opened and closed by Decree of President of the
Republic.
Title V: Of the Relations between the
Executive Power and the Legislative Power
Article 121
The law is voted by the National Assembly.
The law establishes the rules concerning:
• the civil rights and the fundamental guarantees accorded to citizens for the
exercise of the public freedoms;
• the constraints imposed by the National Defense on the citizens[,] on their
persons and on their assets;
• nationality, the status and capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes,
inheritance and gifts;
• the Family Code;
• the determination of criminal infractions as well as the penalties applicable
to them, the criminal procedure, amnesty, the creation of new orders of
jurisdiction and statute of the magistrates;
• the penitentiary regime;
• the base, the rate and modalities of collection of taxes of any nature;
• the regime of emission of the currency;
• the creation of categories of public establishments;
• the nationalization of enterprises and transfers of ownership of enterprises
of the public sector to the private sector;
• the fundamental guarantees granted to the civil and military functionaries
of the State;
• the electoral regime;
• the procedure according to which customs are declared and harmonized
with the principles of the Constitution;
• the state of siege and the state of urgency.
Chad 1996 (rev. 2005)
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