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PROPOSED LAW NO. 117 /X

Exhibition of Motives

Consecrated constitutionally, the Superior Council of Magistrature is, in the terms

legal, the superior body of management and discipline of the judicial magistrate, performing

a key role in the administration of justice, function committed to the

Courts, while organs of sovereignty.

The status and functions of the Superior Council of Magistrate, enshrined

constitutionally, as well as the management and administration tasks that are in it

committed, impose that it be, on the line of what already succeeding today with the Courts

Superiors, assigned administrative and financial autonomy.

With such a measure, it is aimed not only to provide the Superior Council of the Magistrature of the

instruments necessary to the cabal performance of their functions, but also to rely-

an active role in the administration and management of the body of judicial magistrates,

conditions essential to the full realization of the principle of independence of judges and,

consequently, from the Courts.

At the same time, and for reasons of practical order, it is assigned to the Superior Council of the

Magistrate the competence to process and pay the salaries of the magistrates

judicial placed in the courts, measured that, failing to undermine, in essence, the

autonomy of the Higher Courts, agilize, overlap, the management of the latter.

Finally, in accordance with the provisions of Article 163 of the Statute of the

Judicial Magistrates, passed by Law No. 21/85 of August 30, proceed, à

reorganisation of the office of the Superior Council Magistrature, as well as its

services.

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The Superior Council of Magistrature has been heard.

Thus:

Under the terms of the paragraph d ) of Article 197 (1) of the Constitution, the Government presents to the

Assembly of the Republic the following proposal for a law:

CHAPTER I

General Provisions

Article 1.

Subject

This Law enshrines the administrative and financial autonomy of the Higher Council

of the Magistrature as an autonomous service and defines the organisation of its services.

Article 2.

Administrative and financial regime

The Superior Council of the Magistrature is endowed with administrative autonomy and

financial, available of own budget, entered in the general charges of the State, of the

State budget, pursuant to Article 2 (2) of Law No 91/2001, of 20 of

August.

Article 3.

Budget

1-The budget of the Superior Council of the Magistrature is intended to bear the

expenditure on its members, with the framework of magistrates and officials who

are affections to their services, with judicial magistrates assigned to the courts

judicial magistrates of 1 th instance, with judicial magistrates affections as ancillary to the

courts of the relationship and the remaining current and capital expendities required by the

exercise of your competences.

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2-The Superior Council of the Magistrature approves the draft budget and presents it

to the Government in the time limits determined for the drafting of the proposed law of the

Budget of the State, to be submitted to the Assembly of the Republic, and shall

provide the elements that this asks you about the matter.

Article 4.

Recipes

1-In addition to revenue from appropriations in the State Budget and those of the

Institute of Financial Management and Justice Infrastructures, are own revenue

of the Superior Council of the Magistrature:

a) The management balance of the previous year;

b) The product of the sale of edited publications;

c) The emoluments for acts carried out by the registry office

d) Any others assigned to it by law, contract or other title.

2-The product of own revenue may, pursuant to the budget implementation law, be

applied in the realization of current and capital expenditure which, in each year, does not

may be borne by the appropriations entered in the State Budget,

particularly expenditure for publishing publications or carrying out studies,

analyses or other extraordinary work.

Article 5.

Financial management

1-Cabin to the Superior Council of the Magistrature, regarding its budget, the

managerial skills provided for in the general law in administration

financial, may delegate it to the president.

2-The President of the Superior Council of the Magistrature may delegate to the secretary of the

Superior Council of the Magistrature the competence to authorize the realization of

expenses up to the limit of the powers of director-general.

3-The expenditure which, by its realization or amount, exceeds the competence

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referred to in paragraph 1 and, as well, those that the President understands to submit to the Council

Superior of the Magistrature, are by this authorized.

Article 6.

Release of funds

1-The Superior Council of the Magistrature requests the release of credits to the Directorate

General of the Budget, according to your needs and on account of the appropriation

global that is distributed to you.

2-The Chairman of the Superior Council of Magistrature may, pursuant to the law of

budget implementation, approve the expenditure of the duodecimal regime of any of the

budgetary allocations and, well, to request the partial anticipation of the respective

duodécimos.

3-All documents relating to the lifting of funds, receipts and

payments must compulsorily contain two signatures, one being the one of the

secretary of the Superior Council of the Magistrature and, failing that, that of the director of the

administrative and financial services and the other of a member of the Council

Superior of the Magistrature, to be designated by the plenum.

Article 7.

Account

The annual management account of the Superior Council of Magistrature is organized and

approved by the administrative board, being submitted under the Enforcement Act

Budget, in the legal period, to the Court of Auditors, to the Presidency of the Council of

Ministers and the Ministries of Finance and Justice.

Article 8.

Competencies of the President of the Higher Council of Magistrate

1-Compete to the President of the Superior Council of Magistrature, in the framework of his

own or delegated powers, exercise the administrative powers and

financial identical to those who integrate ministerial competence, as well as

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represent the Council in judgment and outside of it.

2-The skills referred to in the preceding paragraph may be subdelegated to the

vice president.

3-Compete to the President of the Superior Council of Magistrature, heard the advice

administrative, authorize the opening of competitions for the admission of personnel to the

your paintings, celebrate, extend, renew and rescind personnel contracts, authorize

detachments, requisitions, transfers, exchange and service commissions, in the

terms of the current general law.

Article 9.

Competencies of the Secretary of the Superior Council of Magistrate

Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 3 of the preceding Article, the Secretary of the Higher Council

of the Magistrature, in addition to the own competences defined in the law, holds the

competences of the Directors-General with respect to the management of the facilities, of the

equipment and the staff of the Superior Council of Magistrate.

CHAPTER II

From the organisation of services

Article 10.

Organs and services

1-The Superior Council of the Magistrature has an administrative board, which is the

deliberative body in financial and equity management.

2-The Superior Council of the Magistrature has two specialized sections,

composed of members of the Council, relating to the monitoring and connection to the

judicial tribunals and the monitoring of trainings and recruitment.

3-The Superior Council of the Magistrature has a Registry, organic unit of

technical-administrative support necessary for the preparation and implementation of the activities and

deliberations of the Superior Council of Magistrate.

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Article 11.

Administrative council

1-The Administrative Council shall be composed of the following members:

a) The President of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

b) The Vice President of the Higher Council of Magistrate;

c) The Secretary of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

d) Three members of the Superior Council of the Magistrate elected annually by the

plenary;

e) The director of administrative and financial services.

2-Compete to the administrative board:

a) Give advice on annual activity plans and on the respective reports

of execution;

b) Issue opinion on the draft annual budget and its amendments,

submitting it to the approval of the Superior Council of the Magistrate;

c) To ensure collection of revenue and regularly check the funds in safe and

in deposit;

d) Authorize the expenses that should not be authorized by the President;

e) Authorize the payment of the expenses whatever the entity has

granted the respective authorization;

f) To monitor the organisation of accounting and to ensure that it is implemented;

g) Approve the management bills and promote their submission to the Court of Auditors,

under the terms of the Budget Implementation Act;

h) Authorize the constitution of manework funds for the payment of small

expenses, by establishing the rules to which you comply with your control;

i) Pronounce on any subject of financial and equity management that

be submitted;

j) Exercise the remaining functions provided for in the law.

3-The administrative board meets, ordinarily, once a month, and

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extraordinarily, whenever convened by the president, on his initiative or the

request from three of its members.

4-For the validity of the deliberations of the administrative council is necessary

of at least five of its members, among them the President or, in the cases

provided for in paragraph d) of paragraph 2, the Vice-President.

5-The meetings are secretariats by an official designated by the president.

Article 12.

Monitoring and liaison section to the judicial courts

1-A The follow-up and liaison section to the judicial courts is composed of the

president, who coordinates, by the vice president and by six vowels elected by the

plenary.

2-Compete to the follow-up section and link to the judicial courts:

a) Treat the information provided by the inspection services and collect another

on the situation of each of the judicial courts and disseminating it to the

members and the Secretary of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

b) Draw up forecasts on the needs for placement of judges;

c) Ensuring contacts, receiving and promoting communication between the

judges of the judicial courts and the Superior Council of Magistrature,

preparing and guiding the follow-up of the exhibitions presented;

d) Propose together with the deliberation bodies of the Superior Council of Magistrature

measures to troubleshot operating difficulties detected in the

judicial tribunals, specifically in the management of appointments, placements,

transfers and replacements of the judges of the court courts and collaborate in the

implementation of the measures that come to be adopted;

e) Ensure the appreciation and follow-up of the applications and complaints

relating to the operation of the judicial courts, received in the Council

Top of the Magistrature;

f) Issue opinion on the annual report on the status of services in the courts

judicial, subjecting it to the approval of the plenum.

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3-A The follow-up and liaison section to the judicial courts is coadjuved, in the

exercise of your competences, by the office of support to the vice president and to the

members of the Superior Council of Magistrate.

Article 13.

Monitoring section for trainings and recruitment

1-A monitoring section of trainings and recruitment is

comprised of the President, who coordinates, and by two members of the Higher Council

of the Magistrature, one of which is mandatorily of a higher category magistrate à

of a judge of law.

2-Compete to the monitoring section of trainings and recruitment:

a) Accompany the activities of initial training and continuing education

carried out by the Center for Judicial Studies, ensuring effective linkage

with this Centre on the part of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

b) Present suggestions and proposals in respect of study plans and

activities aimed at the initial and continuing training of judges, to be submitted to the

plenum of the Superior Council of Magistrature, and it is to give you execution

decisions of this;

c) Coordinate the trames of the designation of judges for juries of tender of

admission in the initial training and for trainers of the Centre for Studies

Judiciary, as well as for other activities in the framework of training

carried out by this establishment, in accordance with the provision of the law;

d) Ensuring articulation with the Center for Judicial Studies in the processes of

appointment of judges to lecturers of this establishment;

e) Coordinate the procedures for appointment of judges on internship and

ensure articulation with the Center for Judicial Studies at the stage stage,

in the terms of the law.

3-A monitoring section of trainings and recruitment is

coadjuved, in the exercise of its competences, by the Deputy Office for the Deputy-

president and the members of the Superior Council of Magistrature.

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Article 14.

Secretion

The office of the Superior Council of Magistrature comprises:

a) The direction of services of tables and judicial movements;

b) The direction of administrative and financial services;

c) The division of legal documentation and information;

d) The office of communication, institutional relations, studies and planning;

e) The office of support for the Vice-President and the members of the Board of Governors

of the Magistrature.

Article 15.

Direction of services of tables and judicial movements

1-A management of tables and judicial movements ensures, in general, the

implementation of the actions inherent in the placement, displacement and permanent updating

of the enrolment of the judges of the judicial courts, as well as the expedient concerning the

same and still that of the composition of collective courts.

2-Compete in the direction of services of tables and judicial movements:

a) Organize the process and draw up the proposals of the judicial movements and

carry out the respective deliberations;

b) Prepare and ensure the expedient concerning detachments and commissions of

services;

c) To ensure the expedient concerning substitutions and accumulations of services;

d) Ensuring the expedient concerning the organisation of shifts to ensure the service

urgent on the court holidays and on Saturdays and holidays that fall on Sunday;

e) To ensure the expedient concerning the composition of collective courts;

f) To organise and maintain up-to-date biographical and disciplinary record as well as the

enrollment of falters and licences;

g) Prepare and keep up to date the list of antiques and autuary and to move the

claim processes that about the same if they present;

h) To authenticate and move the expedient concerning the complaint processes against

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the acts practiced by the permanent council, by the president, by the deputy

president or by the vowels;

i) Autuar and move open processes with exhibitions of public entities,

including judges, relating to the operation of the judicial courts.

j) To authenticate and move processes regarding orders or determinations of

procedural acceleration, triggered in the terms of the current legislation;

l) Carry out the service time count, for retirement effects and

organise the processes concerning the retirement and jubilation;

m) Draw up the tables for the sessions of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

n) To ensure the expedient on ordinary inspection procedures and

extraordinary;

o) Collaborate on the elaboration of the map of inspections;

p) Collaborate in the elaboration, regulation and application of the holiday maps of the

magistrates;

q) Autuar and move the expedient concerning the autos of inquiry and of

syndication, as well as disciplinary processes;

r) To ensure the expedient on the fact-finding autos;

s) Provide administrative and secretarial support to inspection services.

3-A management direction of tables and judicial movements integrates the division of

judicial and inspection frameworks to which the exercise of competences competes

referred to in points n) a s) of the previous number.

Article 16.

Steering of administrative and financial services

1-At the direction of administrative and financial services compete to implement the shares

relating to the development of administrative and financial skills of the

Top Council of the Magistrature.

2-Compete in the direction of administrative and financial services compete:

a) To draw up the draft annual budget and its amendments;

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b) Follow up the budget implementation and propose the necessary changes;

c) Process the requisitions of funds from the accounts of the appropriations consigned to the

Top Council of the Magistrature;

d) To draw up the management account and prepare the project of the respective reports;

e) Instruct the procedures relating to the acquisition of goods and services and the realization

of works of public works;

f) To ensure compulsory writing and accounting records;

g) Ensuring the processing of remunerations and other allowances, as well as

proceed to the settlement of the respective discounts;

h) Check and process the expense documents;

i) Issue the identity cards and promote the expedient concerning the provisions of the

article 25;

j) Perform the functions inherent in the reception, distribution, dispatch and file of the

correspondence and other documents;

l) Collect, organize and keep up-to-date information on resources

humans of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

m) Proceed to the registration of assiduity and seniority of the staff;

n) To promote the professional enhancement of staff;

o) Elaborate studies necessary for the correct allocation of personnel to the various

services of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

p) To report on the issues concerning the implementation of the public function regime which

be submitted to you;

q) Ensuring the surveillance, safety, cleaning and tidying up of the premises,

equipment and viactures;

r) Managing the car park affection to the Superior Council of Magistrature;

s) Keep up to date the enrollment and inventory of real estate and furniture and the

inventory and enrollment pertaining to the car park;

t) To promote the storage, conservation and distribution of goods and consumes

currents and ensure the management of stocks;

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u) Ensure and move the expedient regarding the function houses assigned to the

judges.

3-A The direction of administrative and financial services integrates the division

administrative-financial and economy-saving, to which it has the skills to which they refer

the points a) a h) and q) a u) of the previous number.

Article 17.

Division of documentation and legal information

1-Compete to the division of legal documentation and information:

a) Organizing and ensuring the management of the library of the Superior Council of the

Magistrate, encouraging in particular, the acquisition of the respective fund

documentary;

b) Keep up to date the respective databases;

c) Proceed to the systematic treatment and file of the legislation, ensuring a

legislative information service;

d) Carry out computer or manual research, particularly along with others

libraries, the request of the members of the Superior Council of Magistrate

or of its services;

e) To ensure the dissemination of the services provided by the library and

available documentation;

f) Cooperate with national, foreign and international institutions in matter

of documentation and information;

g) Proceed to the translation and retroversion of texts.

h) Planning and ensuring the management of the informative systems of the Higher Council

of the Magistrature;

i) Proceed to the diagnosis of the needs that occur in the operation

of the same systems and formulate the corresponding correspondents;

j) Making accessible to members of the Superior Council of Magistrate the

major legal databases of legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine,

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national and foreign.

l) To promote the training of users of such systems and to cooperate in that

training, with means of its own, or by using external entities to

Top Council of the Magistrature;

m) To technically support the drafting of the contract notebook, the selection,

acquisition, contracting and installation of the computer equipment;

n) Keep in operation and update the informative services that the

Top Council of the Magistrature to come available to users

external;

o) Managing the website of the Superior Council of Magistrature in the Internet .

2-A The division of legal documentation and information integrates a unit of

informatics to which it competes the exercise of the powers provided for in points h) a

o) of the previous number.

Article 18.

Office of communication, institutional relations, studies and planning

1-The office of communication, institutional relations, studies and planning has

competencies within the framework of the articulation between the Superior Council of Magistrature and

the media and the citizens, within the framework of the articulation between the Council

Superior of Magistrature and domestic and foreign institutional entities and, still,

within the framework of the conduct of studies and opinions concerning the operation of the

courts.

2-The office of communication, institutional relations, studies and planning is

coordinated by a member of the Superior Council of Magistrate, elected by the

plenary, and it works on the dependence of the President.

3-The office of communication, institutional relations, studies and planning integrates

compulsorily two elements with training and experience in the area of

media.

4-Compete to the office of communication, institutional relations, studies and

planning, within the framework of the articulation between the Superior Council of Magistrature and

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national and foreign institutional entities:

a) Ensuring the care of citizens and media bodies that

addressed the Superior Council of the Magistrature;

b) Providing the information requested to the Superior Council of Magistrate

regarding the operation of the courts and, in general traces, to the trames

procedural;

c) Receive complaints, suggestions and criticism from citizens regarding the

functioning of the courts;

d) Exercise advice on social communication;

e) To ensure the broadcasting service of the deliberations of the Superior Council of the

Judgeship;

f) To study and develop forms of systematic dissemination of information on the

activity of the judicial courts and the Superior Council of Magistrature, with

compliance with the law and higher directives;

g) To collect and analyse information and opinion trends concerning the action of the

Superior Council of the Magistrature, the courts and the administration of the

justice, in general;

h) To ensure the organisation of meetings, conferences and seminars of the initiative

of the Superior Council of the Magistrature;

i) Ensuring the production and editing of the Higher Council Informative Bulletin

of the Magistrature;

j) Present a half-yearly report of the issues received;

l) Promote the internal dissemination of the semiannual report, as well as others

elements collected for the purpose of analysis and drafting of proposals of

appropriate and relevant action measures.

5-Compete to the office of communication, institutional relations, studies and

planning, within the framework of the articulation between the Superior Council of Magistrature and

the media and citizens:

a) Support the Superior Council of Magistration, in the area of its competences

own, in the actions of national and international representation and of

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cooperation;

b) Coordinating the participation of the Superior Council of Magistrature, in its

scope, in all committees, meetings, conferences or organisations

similar, of justified interest, which, on the national and international level, if

carry out in the area of justice;

c) Give the appropriate support, upon request, to the international delegations that

meet in Portugal to participate in initiatives related to the

area of the courts;

d) Ensure the monitoring and development of protocols that the

Top Council of the Magistrature establishes with national bodies and

international;

e) Ensure response and follow-up of technical correspondence-

scientific or informative coming from national or international bodies;

f) Collect the information to refer to the Portuguese Agent with the Tribunal

European Human Rights;

g) Support the services of the Portuguese Contact Point of the Judicial Network

European in Civil and Commercial Matters (RJECC), of the Point of Contact of the

Ibero-American Network of Judicial Cooperation (Iber-Network) and the Point of

Contact of the Judicial Network of the Portuguese-speaking Countries seated in the

Superior Council of Magistrature, as well as the remaining infrastructures of

international cooperation that in it come to work.

6-The skills referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be exercised in accordance with a

regulation, approved by the Superior Council of Magistrate, which contains the

standards and procedures relating to contact with citizens.

7-Compete to the office of communication, institutional relations, studies and

planning, in the context of carrying out studies and opinions concerning the

functioning of the courts:

a) Elaborate situation studies and analysis on the functioning of the courts, the

solicitation of the members of the Higher Council of Magistrate;

b) Support the Superior Council of Magistrates in the formulation of measures that if

is intended to improve the functioning of the courts;

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c) Collaborate with the specialist sections of monitoring and linking to

judicial and follow-up courts of the trainings and the

recruitment;

d) Elaborate studies and formulate proposals for operating models that

aim to ensure the efficiency and productivity of the Registry the solicitation of the

secretary of the Superior Council of Magistrate;

e) Carry out the analysis of the information collected pursuant to the preceding paragraph and

to propose the adoption of appropriate and relevant action measures;

f) To draw up the draft annual report of activities of the Higher Council of the

Judgeship;

g) Periodically present a report on the attitude of citizens

concerning the operation of the courts;

Article 19.

Office of support for the Vice President and the members of the Board of Governors of the

Judgeship

1-The Vice President and the members of the Superior Council of Magistrature are

coadjuved in the exercise of their duties by a cabinet.

2-The office consists of the head of the cabinet, four adjoining and two secretaries,

being an affection only to the vice president.

3-In your absences or impediments, the head of the office is replaced by one of the

adjoining, designated by the vice president.

4-The cabinet can be advised by a maximum of two aides.

5-Cabinet members and advisors are freely provident and exonerated by the

chairman of the Superior Council of Magistrature, on a proposal from the plenum, save the

provisions of the following number.

6-The chief of staff and the secretary affection to the vice president are freely provident

and exonerated by the President of the Superior Council of Magistrature, under proposal

of the vice president.

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7-The members of the cabinet and the aides shall apply, with due adaptations, the

appointment regime, exoneration, warranty, duties and salary applicable to the

members of the ministerial offices, pursuant to the Decree-Law No. 262/88, of 23 of

July, by staying excluded, with respect to advisors, the application of the provisions of the

article 9 of the said diploma.

8-Cabinet members and advisors consider, for all intents and purposes, in

exercise of duties from the date of the dispatch that has appointed them, with

dispensation of prior surveillance of the Court of Auditors and independently of

publication in the Journal of the Republic .

9-Judicial magistrates may be provided on a service committee, pursuant to the

respective status, not determining such open vacancy in the place of

origin or in that so that, in the meantime, they have been appointed.

10-When the providos are officials of the central, regional or

place or public institutes, exercise the respective functions in regime of

service or requisition commission, as the cases, with the faculty of

opting for the remunerations corresponding to the categories of origin.

11-When the providos are employees of public or private companies,

carry out their duties under requisite rule under the general law in force

for the respective sector.

12-Members of the Cabinet or advisors who exercise faculty or staff functions

scientific research in higher education can continue in the exercise of these

functions, without prejudice to be able to apply for suspension of the time limits of the respective

contracts or deadlines for the submission of reports or provision of evidence to

that are adstrites.

13-Advisors who are not magistrates are compulsorily masters or

licensed in law of recognized competence, and they compete to co-adjuve them

members of the Superior Council of the Magistrature in the exercise of their duties, of

deal with what is determined to them.

14-The provements do not confer, on their own, link to the civil service.

15-The performance of functions in the office is incompatible with the exercise of

advocacy, solicitor or any other function or legal activity

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remunerated.

CAPITCHAPTER III

From the staff

Article 20.

Regime

The staff at the service of the Superior Council of the Magistrature shall be governed by the provisions of the

present law, by their respective statutory diplomas when they are concerned with magistrates or

officers of justice, and, in all that is not with them incompatible, by the general regime of the

public function.

Article 21.

Appointment of officers of justice

1-The seats of bail-out officers are provided by appointment, in committee of

service, pursuant to Article 54 of the Decree-Law No. 343/99 of August 26.

2-To the service commissions of bail-out officers for the exercise of duties of

secretary of inspection of the Superior Council of Magistrature, the article is applicable

131. of the Decree-Law No. 343/99 of August 26.

Article 22.

Frame of staff

1-Table of the official staff of the Superior Council of Magistrature is the constant of the

map of Annex I to this Law, and of which it is an integral part.

2-The framework of the personnel of bail-out officers is approved in accordance with Article 124 of the

Law No. 3/99 of January 13, which passed the Law of Organization and Health

of the Judicial Courts.

3-The framework of the remaining staff of the Superior Council of Magistrature is approved by

joint office of the members of the Government responsible for the areas of Finance,

of the Public Administration and Justice, on a proposal from the Higher Council of the

Judgeship.

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Article 23.

Personal identity card of staff

The staff at the service in the Superior Council of Magistrature are entitled to the use of card

of identity, as per the constant model of Annex II to the present law, and of which it does

an integral part.

CAPITCHAPTER IV

Final and transitional provisions

Article 24.

Transition of staff

1-The staff who, at the date of the entry into force of this Law, find themselves propped up in the

staff frame of the Higher Council of the Magistrature transits into the frame a

which refers to Article 24 (3), in the same career, category and step.

2-Maintain existing service commissions at the date of the entry into force of the

present law.

3-A adaptation of existing support services to the constant provisions of the present

law must conclude within two years after the entry into force of it.

Article 25.

Abrogation standard

The Decree-Law No. 27/92 of February 27 is repealed.

Article 26.

Entry into force

This Law shall come into force on the January 1, 2008.

Seen and approved in Council of Ministers of December 21, 2006

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The Prime Minister

The Minister of the Presidency

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs

ANNEX I

Map referred to in Article 24 (1)

ASSIGNMENT

OF THE POSTS

LEADERS

QUALIFICATION

OF THE POSTS

LEADERS

GRADE

NUMBER OF

PLACES

Director of Services Intermedian Directorate 1. Grade 2

Head of division Intermedian Directorate

2. Grade 3

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Annex II

Model of ID card to which you rent Article 27.

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(a)

Top Council of Magistrate

(b)

Identification Card No. _________

Name ________________________________________________

Category _________________________________________

The Judge-Secretary

_____________________

(c)

(c)

The present card ensures the

recognition of the quality of your holder

as an element of the staff body of the

Top Council of Magistrate

Signature of the holder

_______________________________

(a)-Green color (b)-Red color (c)-White Cor Width: 10 centimeters

Height: 7 inches

PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC

Photography

(White Seal)