MINISTARSKI SAVET KRALJEVINE JUGOSLAVIJE - OBRAZOVANJE, ORGANIZACIJA I PRAVNI POLOŽAJ U SISTEMU VRHOVNE DRŽAVNE UPRAVE
THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS IN THE KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA

Summary/Abstract: The legal status of the Council of Ministers in the governmental system of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was only provisionally defined, hampered like the Kingdom itself, by the remnants of the united countries’ former legal systems. The fact that the legal position of the Council of Ministers during the Vidovdan period (1921-1929) was regulated by the Serbian Law on Central Government Administration from 1862 stands to illustrate this situation. The Vidovdan Constitution was never fully realized in the administrative and legal practice of the Yugoslav Kingdom, because it was neither elaborated nor sanctioned by appropriate laws. The new Law on Central Government Administration of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia) was not enacted before March 1929. The introduction of the dictatorship on 6th January marked the actual beginning of thorough normative organization of government. The mentioned law determined the legal status, jurisdiction and organization of the various ministries and the Council of Ministers Presidency as a separate institution in the government. The legislature of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia established the Council of Ministers Presidency as a separate institution whose status equaled that of a ministry.

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