Law of March 17, 1921 - Constitution of the Republic of Poland.

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• Repealed Acts: Constitutional Law of April 23, 1935.
• Amended Acts: Law of August 2, 1926, amending and supplementing the Constitution of the Republic of March 17, 1921.
• Amended Acts: Announcement concerning the correction of errors in the Law of March 17, 1921 – Constitution of the Republic of Poland.
• Amended Acts: Law of June 16, 1922, on the extension to the Upper Silesian territories of the Silesian Voivodeship of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and certain other laws, and on amendments to the legislation in force in these territories.
• Amended Acts: Law of April 6, 1922, on the assumption of state authority over the Vilnius Land.
• Amended Acts: Announcement of 20 June 1921 on the correction of a printing error in the Law of 17 March 1921 "Constitution of the Republic of Poland".
• References: Law of September 11, 1944, on the organization and scope of operation of national councils.
• References: Regulation of the Head of the Ministry of Labour, Social Welfare and Health of October 1, 1944, on the implementation of the Decree of the Polish Committee of National Liberation of September 7, 1944, on temporary self-government bodies in social insurance institutions.
• References: Constitutional Law of February 19, 1947, on the system and scope of action of the highest organs of the Republic of Poland.
• References: Law of December 31, 1944, on the establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland.
• References: Constitutional Law of February 4, 1947, on the election of the President of the Republic.
• References: Law of September 11, 1944, on the competence of the Chairman of the National Home Council.
• Legal Basis: Law of 26 March 1935 on the ratification of the commercial and navigation convention between the Republic of Poland and the Czechoslovak Republic, signed in Prague on 10 February 1934.
• Legal Basis: Law of 19 February 1929 on the supplementation of the Law of 31 July 1924 on the protection of small agricultural lessees, and in particular on the amendment of certain provisions of the Law of 2 July 1920 and the Law of 18 March 1920.
• Legal Basis: Law of 28 March 1933 on application writing offices and on the prohibition of providing legal advice and conducting affairs of others.
• Legal Basis: Law of 13 February 1929 on the accession of the Republic of Poland to the Convention on conflicts of laws concerning the effects of marriage in the personal rights and obligations of spouses and in the property matters of spouses, signed in The Hague on 17 July 1905.
• Legal Basis: Regulation of the President of the Republic of April 13, 1934, on the amendment of the housing moratorium for the unemployed.
• Legal Basis: Law of 13 February 1929 on the accession of the Republic of Poland to the Convention concerning the settlement of conflicts of laws in matters of marriage, signed in The Hague on 12 June 1902.
• Legal Basis: Law of 28 March 1933 on amending the Law of 20 June 1924 on the enfranchisement of former tenants, former free persons, and long-term leaseholders in the Voivodeships: Nowogródek, Polesie, Wołyń, Wilno, and in the districts: Grodno, Wołkowysk, Bielsk, Białystok, and Sokółka of the Białystok Voivodeship.
• Legal Basis: Law of 13 February 1929 on the accession of the Republic of Poland to the Convention concerning the settlement of conflicts of laws and jurisdictions in matters of divorce and separation from bed and board, signed in The Hague on 12 June 1902.
• Legal Basis: Law of 2 March 1935 on the ratification of the agreement between Poland and Czechoslovakia in the form of an exchange of notes of 13 and 27 January, 10 and 26 February 1934, concerning the extension of the provisional commercial agreement between Poland and Czechoslovakia of 6 October 1933.
• Legal Basis: Law of January 22, 1929, amending Article 1 of the Law of July 23, 1926, and Article I of the Law of March 2, 1927, on the amendment of Article 112 of the Law on Academic Schools of July 13, 1920.
• Legal Basis: Law of 28 March 1933 on the regulation of ownership rights to lands granted to purchasers through parcelling in the Poznań and Pomeranian Voivodeships.
• Legal Basis: Law of January 12, 1929, on the amendment of certain provisions of the Law of September 26, 1922, concerning professional qualifications for teaching in general secondary schools and state and private teacher seminaries, and the Law of July 16, 1924, on the amendment of the above Law.
• Legal Basis: Law of March 15, 1934, on maritime port fees.
• Legal Basis: Law of January 12, 1929, on the ratification of the additional protocol to the commercial and navigation treaty between Poland and Norway, signed in Warsaw on April 26, 1928, signed in Warsaw on December 22, 1926.
• Legal Basis: Law of 28 March 1933 on the conversion of certain loans in mortgage bonds of the State Land Bank and certain liabilities towards the State Treasury into loans from the credit part of the Land Reform Working Capital Fund.
• Legal Basis: Law of January 12, 1929, on the ratification of the extradition treaty between the Republic of Poland and the French Republic, signed in Paris on December 30, 1925.
• Legal Basis: Law of March 2, 1935, on the accession of Poland to the convention signed in The Hague on October 18, 1907, on the adaptation to maritime warfare of the principles of the Geneva Convention.
• Legal Basis: Law of January 12, 1929, on the ratification of the provisional commercial agreement between Poland and Latvia, signed in Riga on December 22, 1927.
• Legal Basis: Law of 28 March 1933 on remuneration for landed properties paid under the Law of 28 December 1925 on the implementation of land reform.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the ratification of the agreement between the Polish Government and the Italian Government concerning the settlement of the debt incurred by Poland from the Italian Government, signed in Warsaw on December 18, 1926.
• Legal Basis: Law of March 13, 1934, on the protection of order on public railways.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the ratification of the convention between Austria, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Czechoslovakia concerning the assumption of receivables and deposits belonging to citizens residing in territories formerly belonging to Austria, from the administration of the Postal Savings Bank in Vienna, signed in Rome on April 6, 1922, and the additional agreement to this convention, signed in Rome on February 23, 1925, together with the protocol of the same date.
• Legal Basis: Law of 25 March 1933 on the transfer of certain lands acquired by the State.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the regulation of the legal status in the Brasław district and the Duksztany municipality in the Święciany district concerning the implementation of land reform.
• Legal Basis: Treasury Law of March 24, 1935, for the period from April 1, 1935, to March 31, 1936.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the exchange of state lands in the Free City of Gdańsk.
• Legal Basis: Law of 18 March 1933 concerning the sale, exchange, and gratuitous transfer of certain state real estate.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the exchange of state land for municipal land in Stanisławów.
• Legal Basis: Law of March 13, 1934, on the supervision of horse breeding.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the sale of a state plot at Grzegórzecka Street in Krakow.
• Legal Basis: Law of 17 March 1933 on last will regulations of military persons.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the ratification of the commercial and navigation treaty between Poland and Estonia, signed in Tallinn on February 19, 1927.
• Legal Basis: Law of 26 March 1935 on the ratification of the commercial agreement between the Government of the Republic of Poland and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, signed in London on 27 February 1935.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the ratification of the convention between Austria, Italy, Poland, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Czechoslovakia, concerning the regulation of various categories of pensions not regulated in the Rome convention of April 6, 1922, signed together with the protocol and additional declarations in Vienna on November 30, 1923.
• Legal Basis: Law of March 17, 1933, on the amendment of the Law of October 9, 1923, on the remuneration of state officials and the army.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the ratification of the convention, signed in Rome on April 6, 1922, between Austria, Italy, Poland, Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Czechoslovakia, concerning pensions granted by the former Austrian government.
• Legal Basis: Law of March 15, 1934, on medical chambers.
• Legal Basis: Law of December 19, 1928, on the ratification of the commercial agreement between the Most Excellent Republic of Poland and the Persian Empire, signed in Tehran on March 19, 1927, together with the protocol, signed in Tehran on April 14, 1928, between the Polish Government and the Persian Government by notes.