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Title IV
Of the Relations Between the Legislative Power and
the Executive Power
Article 56
The law is voted by the Parliament.
Article 57
[The following] are of the domain of the law:
• the fundamental rights and duties of persons[,] notably the regime of public freedoms, the
safeguarding of the individual freedoms, and the constraints imposed by the national defense
[on] citizens on their person and their assets;
• nationality, the status and the capacity of the persons, marriage, divorce, and inheritance;
• the conditions of settlement [établissement] of persons and the status of aliens;
• the determination of crimes and misdemeanors as well as the sentences that are applicable to
them, the criminal [pénale] procedure, amnesty, the creation and the organization of the
jurisdictions, [and] the status of the magistrates;
• the civil procedure and the ways [voies] of execution;
• the customs regime, the regime of emission of money, the regime of the banks, of credit, and of
insurance;
• the electoral regime and the territorial division of the country;
• the regime of property, of real rights, and of civil and commercial obligations;
• the general regime of water, of mines, and of hydro-carbons, of fishing and of the merchant
marine, of the fauna, of the flora, and of the environment;
• the protection and the safeguarding of the cultural and historical patrimony;
• the general rules related to education and health;
• the general rules related to the syndical right, to the right to work, and to social security;
• the general organization of the administration;
• the free administration of the local collectivities, of their competences, and of their resources;
• the tax base, the rates and the modalities of recovery of the taxes of all natures;
• the creation of categories of public establishments;
• the fundamental guaranties granted to the civil and the military functionaries as well as the
general status of the Public Function;
• the nationalizations of enterprises and the transfers of property from the public sector to the
private sector; [and]
• the general rules of the organization of the National Defense.
The laws of finance determine the resources and the charges of the State in the conditions and under
the reservations [réserves] specified by an organic law.
The laws and the programs determine the objectives of the economic and social action of the State.
The provisions of this Article may be specified [précisées] and completed by an organic law.
Article 58
The declaration of war is authorized by the Parliament.
Mauritania 1991 (rev. 2012)
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