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 1. Existing regulations by law and administrative provisions at the moment this Constitution becomes valid, remain in force unchanged as own regulations and provisions of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia, as long and insofar as they have not been withdrawn, supplemented or changed by legislation and administrative provisions in virtue of this Constitution.

2. Maintenance of the existing regulations by law and administrative provisions prevails only insofar as these regulations and provisions are not incompatible with the provisions of the Charter of Transfer of Sovereignty, of the Union Statute, of the Agreement on Transitional Measures or of any other agreement connected with the Transfer of Sovereignty, and insofar as they are not in contravention of those provisions of this Constitution which require no further legislation or executive measures.

1. Insofar as the provisions of this Constitution do not already indicate, the federal law defines which organs of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia shall assume the tasks and competencies of the organs exercising these tasks and competencies before the transfer of sovereignty on the basis of the legislation maintained in virtue of article 192.

2. Pending further provisions the Government shall immediately appoint a delegate in the Netherlands to exercise on its behalf the administrative authority which the Netherlands organs in the Netherlands exercised on behalf of the former Government of Indonesia before the transfer of Sovereignty.

Pending the regulations on citizenship by the law referred to in paragraph 1 of article 5, all persons who have citizenship in accordance with the agreement concerning the assignment of citizens attached to the Charter of the Transfer of Sovereignty, shall already be citizens of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia.

If at the time this Constitution becomes valid, a participant territory actually executes the governing powers in connection with a Subject enumerated in the appendix of this Constitution, the participant territory is competent to continue acting as such until the Republic of the United States of Indonesia takes over those governing powers.

The participant territory shall execute these provisionally continued governing powers in agreement with the higher authority of the federal organs concerned.