LEGAL CONSTITUTION OF DANUBE BANOVINA
Keywords:
state system, ban, administration of banovina, self-government, control, srez, municipalityAbstract
Тhe Danube Banovina was one of the nine administrative and territorial units into which the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was divided in 1929. In his strive to solve the deep political and economical crisis in which the Yugoslav society fell in the late 1920s king Alexander abolished parliamentarianism whereas the banovinas were proclaimed the highest administrative and self-governing territorial units in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the acts on the name and the division of the Kingdom into the administrative units and the September Constitution. The 1931 Constitution defined the banovinas as the second-instance general administration authority and the local self-governing body ruled by the Ban as the representative of the supreme authority designated by the king's Decree at the proposal of the Ministerial Council Chairman. The self-governing function of the banovinas was to be performed by the directly elected banovina councils as specific banovina assemblies which would manage the issues in their jurisdiction through the decrees having the force of law in compliance with the existing legislation. It was set in the Constitution that the autonomy of the banovinas would be specified in a particular act which however was never passed and the banovinas functioning was based on the principle of administrative deconcentration. In addition to the legal supervision the September Constitution accounted for the political supervision in case of breach of the general federal interest.
There were two more administrative levels in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, srezes with broad administrative powers and scope of work and municipalites which were self-governing units with possible governing function within the scope of their work.
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