Emergency Resolution Act, 1741

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ACT OF THE IMPERIAL DIET

 

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THE EMERGENCY RESOLUTION ACT, 1741
7 Horen’s Calling
Introduced in the Imperial Senate.
Passed through the Imperial Senate in the term of 1740-1742.

 

AYE

 

Armas

Corbish

Gurbanguly-Levi

Huss

May

Napier

Rutledge

 

PRESENT

 

Rutledge

 

An act to establish the definition of the term ‘State of Emergency’ and its use in tandem with the d’Alba Act.

 

INTRODUCTION

 

This act attempts to determine precedent concerning troubled and seditionist states after the ‘d’Alba Disaster of 1740’. This will also be a Brother Act of the “d’Alba” movement which will be used in tandem with the establishment of the Governor-General role.

 

SECTION I: WHAT IS A STATE OF EMERGENCY

 

The term ‘State of Emergency’ is used to signify a period of distress within a state of the Empire which requires the intervention of the Crown. With this, the ‘State of Emergency’ establishes the suspension and potential revocation of the titles of the said state it has been called within. This requires the assent of the Emperor to declare, then pending review after the ‘State of Emergency’ is dissolved by the Emperor or should the Senate vote to begin the review process.

 

With this, as following the d’Alba act, the Governor-General controls and assumes regency of the state that is suffering the ‘State of Emergency’.

 

A ‘State of Emergency’ is recommended for civil unrest and potential disasters that threaten the state and its sovereignty. Common uses of this act are for occurences such as:

1. Open Rebellion
2. Suspicion of Coup
3. Terrorist Strongholds present within the state
4. Occult Strongholds present within the state.

 

SECTION II: THE REVIEWAL PROCESS

 

As originally declared by the Emperor, this ‘State of Emergency’ is lifted when declared by the Emperor himself or should the Imperial Judiciary rule it invalid. The reviewal of the original state and intent of the Emergency will be granted to the Imperial Judiciary for review upon either a Senate vote to begin the procedure or the Emperor’s lifting of said ‘State of Emergency'. 

 

If such a ‘State of Emergency’ was declared invalid during review, then compensation by the Crown is offered and resolutions enacted during this state will be reversed immediately. 

 

If such a ‘State of Emergency’ was declared valid, should any titles be implicated in treason, these are to be permanently revoked and subject to an executive resolution plan. The Senate will then vote between the resolution plan or extending the Governor-General’s term by another four years.

Any and all indictments related to the ‘State of Emergency’ shall be prosecuted by the Solicitor-General’s Office in a trial conducted by the relevant Circuit Court following the Judiciary’s review of the ‘Emergency’.

With powers relating to the direct ‘Vassals’ of the Emperor, the Crown Authority of the State are able to proclaim a ‘State of Emergency’ to their own vassals. This follows the same precedent, but review shall be done by the Imperial Judiciary for said reviewal. The Emperor can circumvent any proclamations of the ‘State of Emergency’ done towards the vassals of his direct vassals IF intent can be disproven by the court. 
 

    

Introduced by Senator Richard Gurbanguly-Levi on the 16th of Sun’s Smile, 1741
Cosponsored by Senator Charles Napier

 

ISSUED AND PROCLAIMED,

 

His Imperial Majesty, Peter III Anthony,

Holy Orenian Emperor, King of Curon, Renatus, Salvus, and Seventis, Duke of Helena, Lorraine, and Roden, Count of Alba, Baron of Sedan, Protector of the Heartlanders, Highlanders, and Farfolk, etcetera.