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Rh issue directives on the principles of the law and make decisions which are binding on the courts.

39.—(1) All judicial dignitaries in the Hungarian People’s Republic are elected. The elected judges can be dismissed.

(2) Judges of the Supreme Court and of the Courts of Appeal are elected for a period of five years; those of county and district courts for a period of three years.

(3) The President and the Judges of the Supreme Court, and likewise the Presidents of the Courts of Appeal, are elected by the National Assembly.

(4) The judges are obliged to furnish reports to those who elect them.

(5) A separate law will provide for the election proceduré in the cases of Appeal Court judges and county and district judges.

40.—(1) All Court proceedings, excepting those exempted by law, are open to the public.

(2) The accused has the right of defence before the judges.

41.—(1) The courts of the Hungarian People’s Republic punish the enemies of the working people: they defend and support the State, economic and social order, the institutions and the rights of the workers in the People’s Democracy, and they educate the workers to keep to the rules of socialist society.

(2) The judges are independent and are only subordinate to the law.

42,—(1) The Chief Public Prosecutor is responsible for ensuring the observance of the law.

(2) The Chief Public Prosecutor in his sphere of activity is responsible for ensuring that the laws are observed by the Ministries, the authorities subordinate to them, whether offices, institutions or other organisations, and local organs of the State authority, as well as by ali individual citizens.

(3) The Chief Public Prosecutor is responsible for ensuring that any action injurious or dangerous to the order, safety and independence of the People’s Republic is consistently subjected to prosecution.

43.—(1) The Chief Prosecutor of the Hungarian People’s Republic is elected by the National Assembly for a period of six years, He can be dismissed by the National Assembly.