SECTION V. TRANSITIONAL NORMS AND PROVISIONS

Article 1

December 24, 1995 as the day of holding the national referendum is recognized as a day of adoption of the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Article 2

Courts in the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall administer justice within the limits of their jurisdiction provided by this Constitution.

On the entry of this Constitution into force, judges of all courts of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall keep their competences. Vacant offices shall be filled in the manner provided by this Constitution.

2. Elections of the Justices of the Peace shall be called after passing by the Supreme Soviet a law on Justices of the Peace in the period and in the order determined by it.

Article 3

1. Laws, including constitutional ones, referred to in the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, shall be passed or brought into line with it within one year from the date of entering this Law into force. All other laws and other legal acts shall be brought into line with the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic within a two-year period from the date of entering this law into force.

2. Laws and other legal acts in force on the day of entering this Law into force, pending being brought into line with the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, shall be applied in the part consistent with the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

3. Laws and other legal acts passed in the Soviet Union, the Moldavian SSR, the SSR Moldova, may be applied on the territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic in the part not inconsistent with the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and laws of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

After the expiry of two years from the date of entering this Law into force, laws and other legal acts passed in the Soviet Union, the Moldavian SSR, and the SSR Moldova shall become null and void, and shall not be applied on the territory of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Article 4

1. On the entry of this Law into force, people's deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall keep their status and competences and acquire the status of deputies of the Supreme Soviet provided by the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and keep it up to the elections of the Supreme Soviet of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic of a new convocation.

2. Current bicameral structure of the Supreme Soviet of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall remain in force before election of the Supreme Soviet of a new, after passing this Law, convocation.

3. On the entry of this Law into force, rules and norms regulating organizational matters of functioning the Supreme Soviet shall be applied in the part not inconsistent with the Constitution. The order of introduction, consideration and approval of bills shall remain in force (within the framework of the bicameral structure of the Supreme Soviet), including the procedure of their abolition and reconsideration, in the part consistent with the norms of the Constitution.

Article 5

1. On the entry of this Law into force, the incumbent President of the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublica shall keep his powers, acquiring rights and duties provided by the Constitution, and hold his office till a new President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic is elected according to the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

2. Officials of republican organs of executive power holding their offices before the entry of this law into force, shall keep their competences, acquiring rights and duties provided by the Constitution. Dismissal of the abovementioned persons from the offices held and appointment of new officials after the entry of this Law into force shall be made in the manner provided by the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

3. Before September 2, 2002 as President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic can be elected any citizen of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, who is eligible to vote, reached the age of 35, and is a citizen of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic since the year of introducing the citizenship of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. After the abovementioned date the norm shall take effect, which is set forth in paragraph 2, Article 68 of this Constitution.

Article 6

On the entry of this Law into force, local Soviets of People's Deputies and state administrations shall acquire the status, and be subjected to application of norms and provisions set forth in Chapter 4, Section III of the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

Article 7

1. Pending the passing of an appropriate law on the Constitutional Court of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, the Constitutional Court shall be composed according to law and without special enactment as required by Articles 62 and 86 of this Constitution.

2. Before the appropriate law is passed, the Constitutional Court of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic shall act and administer justice according to the Constitution of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and the legislation of civil procedure currently in force.