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If the Bill of the Law of Finance, deposited in the constitutional time period, is not
adopted before the opening of the new fiscal year [exercise], it is brought into force
by the President of the Republic, on proposal of the Government deliberating in the
Council of Ministers, taking into account the amendments adopted by each of the
two Chambers.
If the Bill of the Law of Finance has not been deposited in a timely fashion to be
promulgated before the start of the fiscal year, the Government demands of the
National Assembly and of the Senate the opening of provisional credits.
If, fifteen days before the end of the budgetary session, the Government has not
deposited its Bill of the budget, it is deemed [to have] resigned.
In the case where the National Assembly and the Senate do not decide within fifteen
days on the opening of provisional credits, the provisions of the Bill providing for
these credits are brought into force by the President of the Republic on proposal of
the Government deliberating in the Council of Ministers.
If, taking into account the procedure provided for above, the Annual Law of Finance
could not be brought into force on the first day of the month of February of the
budgetary year, the President of the Republic, on the proposal of the Government
deliberating in the Council of Ministers, orders the execution of the Bill of the Law of
Finance, taking into account the amendments voted by each of the two Chambers.
If the Bill of the Law of Finance adopted in a timely fashion by the Parliament and
transmitted for promulgation before the opening of the new budgetary year is made
the object of a remand [renvoi] to Parliament by the President of the Republic, the
Government demands of the National Assembly and of the Senate the opening of
provisional credits.
Article 127
Amendments to the Bill of the Law of Finance are not receivable when their adoption
has as a consequence either a diminution of receipts or an increase of expenses,
unless they are accompanied by compensatory proposals.
Article 128
The matters other than those which are of the domain of the law have a regulatory
character.
The texts having the character of law intervening in these matters may be modified
by decree if the Constitutional Court, on the demand of the Government, has
declared that they have a regulatory character in accordance with the preceding
paragraph.
Article 129
The Government can, for the urgent execution of its program of action, demand of
the National Assembly or of the Senate the authorization to take, by ordinance-law,
for a limited time period and on specific matters, measures which are normally within
the domain of the law.
These ordinance-laws are deliberated in the Council of Ministers. They are brought
into force on publication and become lapsed if the Bill of the law of ratification is not
deposited with the Parliament, at the latest, on the deadline specified by the
enabling law.
At the end of the period referred to in the first paragraph of this article, if the
Parliament does not ratify these ordinance-laws, they cease[,] of right[,] to produce
their effects.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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