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Law No. 638 Of 8 August 1946 For Control Of Production, Processing And Circulation Of Precious Metals

Original Language Title:  LEGE nr. 638 din 8 august 1946 pentru controlul producţiei, prelucrării şi circulaţiei metalelor preţioase

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LEGE no. 638 638 of 8 August 1946 for the control of the production, processing and circulation
ISSUER PARLIAMENT
Published in OFFICIAL MONITOR no. 185 185 of 12 August 1946



MIHAI I, Through the grace of God and the national will, King of Romania, To all present and future, health: On the report of our Minister of State to the Department of Mines and Petroleum, with No. 5.421 of 24 May 1946, Having seen the journal of the Council of Ministers No. 1.106 of 1946, We decreed and decreed: + Chapter 1 + Article 1 The production, processing and circulation of precious metals,-gold, silver and platinum, in any state or form,-is only allowed within the limits and conditions of the present law. + Article 2 Through the production of precious metals it is understood any extraction operation of precious metals, as well as any treatment of ore, in order to obtain one of these precious metals. Through the circulation of precious metals is understood, any sale, purchase, deposit or receipt of pledge, leaving or receiving in deposit, exchange, export and any change of ownership or possession, with the free or onerous title, as well as transport, enjoyed or tried, either personally or through interposed persons. By transport, it is understood both the transport with legal act and the transport with material act made, either by the owner or by other persons, regardless of the legal act, on the basis of which the material transport is made. + Article 3 For the production and circulation of precious metals, as defined by art. 2 of this decree-law, the written prior authorization of the National Bank is required. Objects made of precious metals remain and under the law for the establishment of control over objects made of precious metals, of 15 February 1905, with the amendments to the day, to the extent that its provisions are not contradicted by the present decree-law. + Article 4 In the execution of the right of preemption, conferred on the Romanian State of art 71 of the mine law, the National Bank of Romania is authorized to execute the purchase operations of precious metals, as well as the control of the production and circulation of precious metals, according to the provisions of the present decree. + Article 5 Gajes in gold or gold coins, in any state or form, constituted before 19 August 1936, must be declared by registered letter to the headquarters of the National Bank of Romania, the nearest, and within 60 days from the publication of the present decree-law, the object of the pledge must be constituted deposit at the National Bank of Romania until liquidation and liquidated within 90 days from the same date, having written in writing the National Bank of Romania about the liquidation operation. Natural or legal persons, who are obliged by the provisions of this decree-law to register precious metals in special registers received from the National Bank of Romania, are obliged to declare to the National Bank of Romania, under proof, at its head office or at its headquarters in the province, the gold, in any form, which enters into the provisions of this decree-law and which they have in the property or possession, with any title, as well as of the persons with whom they live Together. This declaration will be made within 60 days from the publication of this decree-law in the Official Gazette. At the same declaration are obliged the natural and legal persons, provided above, who will acquire with any title such gold, after the publication of the present decree-law. In such cases, the declaration will have to be made within 15 days from the acquisition of gold. Those who, in the future will ask for such registers from the National Bank of Romania, are obliged, with the request for registers, to submit to the National Bank of Romania and the above declaration. + Article 6 They are not subject to the application of this decree-law, except in the cases expressly provided, the objects processed from precious metals, which serve their own use, namely: art objects, cutlery, jewelry, objects, intended for religious cults, dental works, surgical works, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, except when it turns out that they were manufactured, bought, or held with any title, in order to circumvent the law. This enumeration, is limiting. + Article 7 Gold monets drilled, disfigured or broken, strung in the shape of a salba, mounted as jewel, as objects of adornment or otherwise, fall under the provisions of the decree-law present. Also, the Austrian marigolds, or other categories of monets, with the attributes of the Austrian yellow, fall into the category of gold monets and are subject to the obligation of this decree-law. The port of salves, earrings or other jewelry or ornaments made of gold monets is only allowed to the owners and members of their families, worn as adornments in any place. The circulation of precious metals as defined by art. 2, para. 2, also applies to salads and any categories of monets, even if they are in the form of jewelry, except as provided below: a) the hangers, the icusars, the gold medals, as well as any gold coin struck before the year 1800, which are assimilated with the jewels; b) Jubilee medals, issued on the basis of law No. 656 of 1914. Their circulation in the country is subject to the same regime as jewelry. + Article 8 Precious metal exploiters are obliged to register on the day of extraction on special registers, issued and held according to the indications of the National Bank of Romania, the precious metals obtained from exploitation. The precious metals will be kept or transported always with the respective transport authorization, given by the National Bank of Romania and only on the route shown in the authorization. For small holdings, the authorisation in the register book shall be valid. It is forbidden for the exploiters to carry another gold than that extracted from their own mines. Special authorization is required for large holdings. The transport of gold concentrates to processing plants is done without authorization. also, jewelers and workshops for the processing of precious metals are obliged, before starting any operation that would aim to extract precious metals from pilings, debris, etc., to notify the National Bank, which, through its organs It will control the operation and will be required to register the extracted quantity in the special register. The National Bank of Romania can withdraw the issued registers containing the transport authorization, where it will appreciate that it is the case, replacing it with the register intended only for the registration of the production, in which case the explorer will have to ask special transport authorization for each individual case. + Article 9 Keeping in storage or with any other title by anyone, whether particular, merchant or explorer, without the authorization of B.N.R., of precious metals in any form: metal, amalgam, sand, rich ore, burnt gold, molten, fine metal or alloy with other metals, is prohibited under the sanctions provided by art. 42. The precious metals extracted will be sold to the National Bank of Romania, which is obliged to buy them under the conditions of the present decree-law, within 15 days of extraction, unless the exploiters have written approval from the National Bank of Romania for the extension of the deadline for teaching or possessing own refining facilities. In the latter case, the National Bank of Romania, after consulting the respective exploiters, will fix the term within which the exploiters are obliged to sell the precious metals to the National Bank after the refinement. The National Bank of Romania is obliged to buy and entitled to receive the gold and silver that is handed over to him on the basis of the analyses made in his laboratory or within the conventions intervened between the National Bank and the exploiter. If there is no convention between the National Bank of Romania and the producer misunderstandings between the parties on the reception analyses will be replaced by arbitration. + Article 10 The refining plants, the furnaces for the melting of precious metals, and any other amalgamation or melting installations of these metals, can only operate with the authorization of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum and for the specified purposes. in this authorization. They must be declared to the National Bank of Romania within 60 days from the occurrence of this law or from the date of obtaining the operating authorization from the Ministry of Mines and Oil. + Article 11 The even primitive melting furnaces or installations, which will operate without authorization or unannounced to the Ministry of Mines and Oil, will be immediately closed by the bodies of the National Bank of Romania or the Ministry of Mines and Oil, and the owners will suffer the sanctions provided by this decree-law in art. 42 and urm. Those who will melt or process in any way precious metals without possessing the respective authorizations or B.N.R. registers, will suffer the sanctions provided by art. 42 and urm. + Article 12 The melting of gold in the state of dust, burned or melted sand, is made either in the ovens authorized according to the above provisions, or in the B.N.R. furnaces The melting operation will be done only with the prior knowledge of the predue. As for the B.N.R. furnaces, the failure to present the predue on the day it was communicated, does not prevent the announced meltdown. Only enterprises that have obtained the written authorization of the National Bank of Romania, can hand over to this bank the molten gold in furnaces other than those of the National Bank of Romania or affiliated, in case of conditions established in the authorizations or Written conventions. The Ministry of Mines and Oil, notified by the National Bank of Romania, can withdraw the operating permits of ovens or melting installations, as well as those of gold refining. The Ministry of Mines and Oil is obliged to rule within 15 days from its complaint from the National Bank of Romania. The National Bank of Romania, based on the decision of the Miniter of Mines and Oil, by which it withdraws the authorization to operate an oven or a melting or refining installation, can close them, applying the seal. + Article 13 No one can exercise the trade of precious metals in any form, except for the objects specified by art. 6 6 and 7, lit. a and b and may not work or process, in any form such metals, even their own property and without marketing purpose, only if they possess registers targeted or initialled by B. N. R and in compliance with the records in these registers. The National Bank of Romania can refuse to motivate the issuance of registers, where they appreciate that they are not useful or harm the interests of the State It has the right to withdraw the targeted registers. By these, the trader or the craftsman to whom these registers have withdrawn, loses the right to exercise the trade in gold, silver and platinum. The decisions of the National Bank of Romania can be reformed by the commission provided in art. 49 at the request of those interested. + Article 14 Only the owners of the register of the National Bank of Romania have the right to display through companies or publications in newspapers advertisements regarding their trade in precious metals, other than those exempted in art. 6 6 and 7, letter a and b. + Article 15 The owners of workshops for the processing of precious metals, as well as precious metal traders are obliged to register in the registers held according to the provisions of the National Bank of Romania and targeted by it, all operations made with precious metals or with the objects worked from them. Registration in the registers issued by the National Bank of Romania is made at the same time as the entry or exit of precious metals + Article 16 Owners of workshops for the processing of precious metals with registered firms or craftsmen jewelers with bijutier craftsman's notebook and operating permits within the laws, which regulate the profession of jeweler, can exercise their trade with gold, silver and platinum derived from either jewelry and old objects or from authorized purchases registered by the National Bank of Romania, in compliance with the records provided for in the previous article. + Article 17 Dentists, doctors, pharmacists and chemists, with operating permits as a rule, issued by the competent authorities, without these authorities having withdrawn or cancelled them in the meantime, can acquire within the framework decree-law, gold silver and platinum necessary for the exercise of their profession, with the duty to record the precious metals acquired and the way of use in the special registers, targeted and initialled by the National Bank of Romania. + Article 18 The National Bank of Romania is authorized to verify the accounting and technical, by any means, a delegate of its own, compliance with the provisions of this decree-law. + Chapter 2 + Article 19 Any employee of a precious metal undertaking is obliged to comply with all measures to control the production and circulation of precious metals, provided for by this decree-law and the gold production control regulation approved by the Ministry of Mines and Oil, manufacturing enterprises, as well as regulations and internal operating rules of these enterprises, approved by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, with the opinion of the Commission provided in art. 48. Those who will contravene the above provisions in this article, will be punished with police imprisonment from 15 days to 3 months and with a fine of 50,000-500,000 lei. + Article 20 The staff of any precious metal undertaking shall be subject to the control of the organs of the undertaking, which may go up to the body search, in the conditions set by the approved undertaking's service regulations, under art. 19 19 above. Body research will also be possible through the radioscopic method or other scientific methods, approved by the Ministry of Health. + Article 21 Non-compliance by the employee of a company producing precious metals of any of the provisions of the present decree-law, or the rules of the enterprise for the control of the production and circulation of precious metals, approved according to the provisions above, constitute a serious fault on the part of the employee, the fault that entitles the company to immediately denounce the employment contract, without asking for the prior opinion or approval of any professional authority or association and this, independent of the finding and application of criminal sanctions, shown in This decree-law. The dismissed employee can apply to the courts provided by the law of labor jurisdictions, which will be able, in case it turns out that the dismissal was abusive, either to reintegrate the employee into his or her function, or to grant him the compensation that will appreciate it. + Article 22 Through individual and collective agreements, as well as through arbitration decisions given in matters of labor conflicts, one cannot derogate from the provisions contained in this decree-law. + Article 23 The precious metals stolen from me or from the processing facilities and which constitute a crime body, will be subject to analysis, at the nearest authorized laboratory, in 12 hours from finding it, the result of the analysis submitting to the prosecutor's office, with the minutes of finding the crime. + Article 24 These delicate bodies will be handed over to the B.N.R., which will pay the damage their value calculated at the official price, plus the respective economic premiums and this, after the final transmission of the criminal case. B.N.R. will retain from this consideration the amount of premiums due to the whistleblower and the ascertaining, when the whistleblower is different person than that of the damage and if the finding was not directly noticed by the damage, in which case has no right to the first. + Article 25 The National Bank of Romania will control the gold production, processing and circulation of precious metals, through its control bodies, which are invested with the quality of judicial police officer. For the police of precious metals, besides each gold mining enterprise, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will set up at the proposal of the Commission provided by art. 49, judicial police sections, as well as special sections of gendarmes. The payment of this staff will be made to the needy, through extraordinary credits. Members of this special policy, as well as gendarmes, will be able to be replaced, at the motivated request of the enterprise, with another staff by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The territorial competence of investigating these judicial police officers, in regard to the crimes of this decree-law, is unlimited. B.N.R. will delegate a controller of its to each enterprise, where such special police and gendarmerie organs will be established. The special police and gendarmerie bodies will execute their mission in a close collaboration with the control of the B.N.R. and the enterprise organs, besides which operate and will also supervise the observance of the police provisions of the gold production control regulation approved by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the respective manufacturing enterprises, as well as its internal operating regulations and norms, approved by the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, with the opinion of the Commission, provided for in 49. + Chapter 3 + Article 26 The complaints and denunciations regarding the crimes of the present law, are investigated, and the results are found according to the provisions of the code of criminal procedure, with the derogations below. These crimes are also found by minutes, addressed by judicial police officers, even apart from their constituency, as well as by B.N.R. personnel, delegated for this purpose, or by customs or police bodies, which are indebted to give their contest to the B.N.R. By derogation from the provisions of art. 249 pr. pen. the first prosecutor of the tribunal or the investigating judge, at the written, verbal or telephone request of the B.N.R. bodies, or of the mining enterprises, may give written authorizations or by telephone note to judicial police officers, as in rural communes to do house searches, even against the will of the one who lives it, at any time of day or night. In these cases, judicial police bodies, will have to be assisted by a delegate of the B.N.R. or the mining enterprise who asked for the search, as well as 2 witnesses and this, under the penalty of nullity. For the finding of crimes, the finding bodies can take the interrogators of the alleged offenders and hear witnesses being able to quote them for this purpose. The crimes found by the police and customs bodies will be reported under disciplinary sanction, within 24 hours from the finding, the headquarters of the nearest National Bank of Romania, to which children will be issued at the same time. the minutes of finding and the statements taken, as well as the precious metals in the package, sealed by the finding bodies, in the presence of the offender or 2 witnesses. The organs of the B.N.R., delegated with the control of the application of the provisions of this decree-law, in the exercise of their duties, have the status of judicial police + Article 27 Research in this matter can also be done on public holidays. + Article 28 The minutes of crimes at the present law decree are believed until the registration in false, when they find blatant material facts, and in the other cases, until proven guilty. They will not be able to be annulled by the courts, for form services, except when this law expressly provides for nullity. On their basis, the public ministry will open public action. By derogation from art. 144 144 of the pr code. pen., the statements of the criminals given before the finding bodies, make full proof against them, until proven otherwise. + Article 29 The court competent to judge the offences provided by the present decree-law, is the county court of the place where the offence was committed. It will judge urgently and in particular, without the right of opposition, with the right of appeal to the Court of Appeal and with appeal to the High Court of Cassation. In the processes born on the basis of the present decree-law, the courts cannot give, without special motivation, deadlines of more than 30 days. They are judged by courts and courts, even during court holidays. The absence of witnesses cannot prevent the prosecution of the crime, if the court finds that it has enough elements of conviction. These processes are subject to the provisions of the law for the defense of public patrimony, insofar as they are not contrary to the present law. + Article 30 In all trials that are judged according to the present decree-law. The National Bank of Romania will be quoted ex officio as a civil party, both in its own name and as a mandate of the Romanian State, and can also support the criminal side before the courts and this, even if it was not constituted within and formal civil party. + Article 31 In the cases sent for research to the investigating judge, the instruction will have to be completed in no more than 30 days. In exceptional cases, the House of Impeachment may authorize an extension. The trial deadline will be fixed no later than 15 days from the receipt of the file at the court Registry. The files will be sent to the higher courts, in case of appeal and appeal, no later than 20 days from the ruling. + Article 32 When the instruction or judgment would need the opinion of some experts, they can be quoted with the procedure provided by art. 388 of the criminal procedure, for witnesses. Both the investigating and the judgment bodies can ask the expert ordecateori the case also allows for the acceleration of the judgment only a report, which will be recorded by the respective Registrar, after the procedure used at the hearing of the witnesses. + Article 33 In the trials that are judged according to the present decree-law, once the procedure has been complete compared to the defendant to one of the court terms, it will be considered as such and at all the following deadlines, unless the defendant was arrested. + Article 34 For lack of defense, the process can only be postponed once before a court. + Article 35 As long as the defendant has not taken his interrogation, it will be issued against him, besides the subpoena and a warrant for bringing, without the eventual non-issuance or fulfillment of the mandate of bringing it to be considered as a vice of procedure. + Article 36 The making of the expertise is for experts appointed from public office mandatory. When the trial is postponed due to an unfiled expertise on time or from the non-submission of witnesses or experts called for explanations, without justification by petition and evidence filed on file before the court date, the court will apply. the maximum fines provided by art. 160 160 and 166 of the proc code. pen. and the other measures provided there will also be taken. Both witnesses and experts will also be sentenced to expenses caused by the postponement of the trial. The justification will be possible later, according to art. 160, para. final of the code of criminal procedure, only if the prevention was such, that it could not be justified before the court term. In the case where the measure referred to in the first paragraph of this Article has been applied to experts, the tribunal may either exchange experts or give a short time limit for the submission of the expertise. At this new deadline, if the expertise is not submitted, a fine of 50,000-100,000 lei will be pronounced against the expert. + Article 37 If the trial cannot be tried for lack of procedure or from any other cause it is found that this postponement is due to the fault of an official, the court will apply to this official a fine from 10,000 to 50,000 lei, condemning him. at the same time and on payment of all expenses occasioned to the parties or the State + Article 38 If one or more witnesses or experts present themselves and the trial is postponed from other causes, and the procedure is complete, witnesses or experts will be heard even in the absence of the parties. The court will postpone the trial for hearing the other witnesses or experts, only if it finds that its settlement cannot be given only on the basis of the hearings made. + Article 39 When the defendant is in a state of freedom, the court that pronounces a custodial sentence, even non-final, more than 6 months, can order by the same decision the preventive arrest of the convicted defendant. + Article 40 The civil party will be able to appeal and appeal for punishment. National Bank of Romania, as a civil party, by way of derogation from the provisions of art. 448 of the criminal procedure, can exercise in all cases the remedies provided for by this article. The remedies exercised by the National Bank of Romania invest the court with the right to be able to rule on the punishment, even if the public ministry did not attack the decision. Also, by way of derogation from art. 224, para. 4 4 of the proc code. pen., in the case when it was addressed in the case of a report of offence to the present decree-law, the public ministry if it does not send the case directly to the court competent for the trial, will send it to the investigating judge with the introductory indictment, unable to decide on the classification of the matter alone In the contrary to the final order given by the investigating judge, the National Bank of Romania can use all the remedies provided for by the criminal procedure, both for the civil party and for the public ministry. + Article 41 In all offences to the present decree-law, the provisional seizure provided by art. 120 120 and 121 of the proc code. pen. will be ordered by the public ministry, the investigating judge or the courts, at the request of the civil party. + Chapter 4 + Article 42 Criminals at the provisions of the present decree-law shall be punished with imprisonment from 6 months to 2 years and with criminal fine from 100,000-10,000,000 lei, and the precious metals found shall be confiscated for the benefit of the State or returned to the damage their value, in the case and in the conditions provided by art. 24 of this decree-law. For the penalties that will be applied according to this decree-law, it will not be possible to grant in any case the suspension of the execution of the sentence or the application of the fine, without the private penalty In the event of a conviction, mine exploiters will also lose the mining right and will be excluded from acquiring any mining rights in the future, and traders will lose the right to do more metal operations. precious. In case of application of mitigating circumstances, the court is obliged to motivate their existence and will not be able to lower the sentence under 2 months correctional imprisonment and 100,000 lei fine. In the event of relapse and when the offences at the present law decree are committed by the bodies charged with the application of this decree-law, as well as by the personnel entrusted by the enterprises with the control of the production, a sentence of 3-5 years correctional imprisonment and a fine of 1,000,000-20,000,000 lei, without being able to apply mitigating circumstances. Export or attempt to export precious metals without legal permits, shall be punished with the same punishment, without mitigating circumstances. + Article 43 When any of the crimes at the present law decree was enjoyed by the representatives of a legal person, working on behalf and in its interest, it will be obliged to pay a civil fine of 50,000-30,000,000 lei. This penalty will be ruled by the court, with the conviction of offenders, individuals, who have worked on behalf and in her interest. The legal person will be quoted by his legal representatives, without having to designate their names. + Article 44 In case of conviction, except provided in art. 24 of this decree-law, the court will necessarily pronounce the confiscation for the benefit of the State of the values that formed the object of the crime and all the means that helped commit the crime. If this confiscation cannot be rendered because the values were not found in the possession of the criminals or because of any cause, they cannot be confiscated for the benefit of the State, the State will capitalize through its legal mandate the National Bank of Romania, civil rights, for the amount equal to 4 times the equivalent in lei of the object of the crime. The confiscated precious metals will be liquidated for the State by the National Bank of Romania, at the official price, plus the maximum production premium to the small producers. The National Bank of Romania will retain from the price of gold 25 percent for its tracking expenses and 50 percent, to be distributed as premiums: 25 per cent to the whistleblower and 25 per cent to the ascertaining, unless the finding agents are officials of the B.N.R., or members of the judicial body, in which case, their first due will be paid to funds for the Gold Police of the B.N.R. In the case of gold theft, the 25 percent share due to the findings and whistleblowers will be calculated at the base price of gold, plus the corresponding economic premium received by the damaging producer, who will pay these premiums. When there is no whistleblower, the 25 percent share is also retained by B.N.R. to cover expenses caused by the prosecution of crimes to the present law. If the findings specify in the minutes that there is a covered whistleblower, the first due to the whistleblower will also be paid in the hand of the ascertaining. + Article 45 Whistleblowers whose quality results from a written and signed denunciation, or from any other precise indications leading to the discovery of crimes, will also receive a share of 25 percent of the amounts from the collection of fines, as well as those results from the confiscations and civil damages handed down by the courts. + Article 46 Attempt, concealment, instigation and complicity are punishable with the same punishment as the crime savirsita. + Article 47 Those who buy metal gold of mine or ore without the authorization of B.N.R., shall be punished with correctional imprisonment from 2-5 years and with a fine of 1,000,000-10,000,000 lei, without being able to apply relief circumstances or suspension of punishment. Their trial will be under arrest. + Article 48 For fines handed down against individuals, art. 64 of the penal code. + Chapter 5 + Article 49 At the Ministry of Mines and Oil, besides the Mines Directorate will be established by decision a permanent commission that will deal with the organization, coordination and application of measures, having the object to combat the crimes provided by the presence law, as well as other attributions given by them by the present law or by other laws or regulations. Upon her referral by the B.N.R., the Union of Mining Unions, the Mining Industries Union or the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the Commission will give decisions to interpret the provisions of the present law, mandatory interpretation and for the courts Court. The Commission will also give its opinion on all the issues that will be submitted to it by the Ministry of Mines and Oil. The commission will consist of 9 members, namely: a) Director of mines in the Ministry of Mines and Oil b) A magistrate, member of the Bucharest Court of Appeal; c) A delegate of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers; d) Head of the Gold Service B.N.R.; e) A lawyer from the Contencios Service of B.N.R., designated by B.N.R.; f) A delegate of the Union of Mining Unions; g) A delegate of the Ministry of Labour h) A delegate of the Union of Mining Industries; i) A delegate of the General Directorate of Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The commission will work valid, regardless of the number of members present, with the condition that its decisions or opinions are given by a majority of 5 votes. The Secretary-General, as well as the staff of the Secretariat of the Commission, will be appointed from the staff of the Mines Directorate, by the decision setting The members of the commission, the secretary-general and the staff of the secretariat will be appointed, within 2 years and will receive a monthly fixed allowance, established by ministerial decision and which will be paid by B.N.R. from the Gold Police fund, by derogation from the laws and provisions in force. Alternates for each member of the commission will also be provided for in the appointment decision. + Article 50 All the provisions contained in this decree-law are public order. + Article 51 They are exempt from any taxes, stamps or taxes to the State or the commune, the actions and procedural documents made by the B.N.R., based on the present decree-law, as well as the publications, acts and operations concluded by the B.N.R., regarding the metals precious, provided for in the present decree-law. First distributed, according to art. 44 and 45, as well as any expenses made in the application of this decree-law, are also exempt from any taxes, duties and stamps to the State or the commune. + Article 52 Provisions Decree for the control of the circulation of precious metals No. 1.907 of 12 August 1936 , with the amendments and additions made by the decree-law of 12 Septemvrie 1938, as well as any other provisions contrary to the present decree, of any laws and regulations are and remain repealed. Given in Bucharest on August 8, 1946. MIHAI Minister of Mines and Oil, Ing. Tudor Ionescu No. 2,488. + Report of the Minister of Mines and Petroleum to the M.S. King Sire, The circulation of precious metals is subject to a control regulated by a law that is found that today no longer corresponds, because lately, gold evasions have taken a worrying proportion, which brings the State significant damage. It was thus the need for a new regulation in which to provide for the various crimes, the measures to control and prevent evasion and consequently, graduated sanctions, according to the seriousness of the crimes. All these measures are provided in the adjoining decree-law, which I submit to the high approval and signatures of Your Majesty. I'm with the deepest respect, Sire, Your Majesty, too long gone and too obedient, Minister of Mines and Oil, Ing. Tudor Ionescu No. 5,421. 1946 1946 May 24 ---------------