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(1) As from the assembly of the Bundestag, laws shall be passed exclusively by the legislative authorities recognized in this Basic Law.

(2) With effect from this date, legislative bodies and bodies acting in an advisory capacity in respect of legislation, the competence of which ends in accordance with paragraph (1), shall be dissolved.

(1) Law existing before the assembly of the Bundestag shall remain in force, insofar as it does not conflict with the Basic Law.

(2) The state treaties concluded by the German Reich concerning matters for which, according to this Basic Law, Land legislation is competent, shall remain in force if they are valid and continue to be valid according to general basic principles of law, while reserving all the rights and objections of those concerned, until new state treaties shall have been concluded by the authorities made competent to do so by this Basic Law or until they are otherwise terminated on the grounds of the provisions they contain.

Law concerning matters within the exclusive legislative competence of the Federation shall become federal law within the area of its application.

Law concerning matters of concurrent federal legislation shall become federal law within the area of its application,  insofar as it is uniformly valid within one or more zones of occupation,

insofar as it concerns law by which former Reich law has been amended since 8 May 1945.  Rh