(Legislative authorisation)
1. The National Parliament may authorise the Government to make laws on the
following matters:
a) Definition of crimes, sentences, security measures and respective
prerequisites;
b) Definition of civil and criminal procedure;
c) Organisation of the Judiciary and status of magistrates;
d) General rules and regulations for the public service, the status of the
civil servants and the responsibility of the State;
e) General bases for the organisation of public administration;
f) Monetary system;
g) Banking and financial system;
h) Definition of the bases for a policy on environment protection and
sustainable development;
i) General rules and regulations for radio and television broadcasting and
other mass media;
j) Civic or military service;
k) General rules and regulations for requisition and expropriation for
public purposes;
l) Means and ways of intervention, expropriation, nationalisation and
privatisation of means of production and soils on grounds of public interest,
as well as criteria for the establishment of compensations in such cases.
2. Laws on legislative authorisation shall define the subject, sense, scope
and duration of the authorisation, which may be renewed.
3. Laws on legislative authorisation shall not be used more than once and
shall lapse with the dismissal of the Government, with the end of the
legislative term or with the dissolution of the National Parliament.
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