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Section 4

1. The exception established in Article 126 of this Constitution shall comprise those persons who, having been elected a Senator or Representative in Congress, responded to the call to fill a chair in an official establishment prior to the promulgation of this Constitution and obtained the a subsequently to their election.

2. Paragraph 2 of Article 130 shall become effective six years after this Constitution is promulgated.

Section 5

Sole. The Congress of the Republic is authorised to enact, within 2 sessions and without complying with the requisites specified in paragraph (k) of article 134 of this Constitution, an amnesty law that shall comprise the electoral crimes committed by reason of the elections held on November 15, 1939.

Congress is likewise authorised to enact, within the same period and in the same exceptional manner, an amnesty law that shall comprise crimes of a fraudulent character committed prior to the assembling of the Constitutional Convention of 1940, by public officers and employees in connection with the exercise of their offices, provided it is their first offence.

At its first session following the approval of this Constitution, Congress shall enact an amnesty law that will totally pardon veterans of the War of Independence who are more than 60 years old, and their co-criminals, who are serving time in the penal institutions of the Republic.


To Title XIV

Section 2

Sole. Pending creation of the Section of Constitutional and Social Guarantees to which article 172 of this Constitution refers, and the appointment of its Justices, the full bench of the Supreme Court shall continue to take cognisance of unconstitutionality appeals as regulated in the Constitutional Law of June 11, 1935.

Section 4

Sole. The first renovation of the Superior Electoral Court shall be made one year from the date on which this Constitution becomes effective.