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 (7) Insofar as property which, according to paragraphs (1) to (3), would accrue to a Land or a public law corporation or institution, has been disposed of by the authority thereby authorized by means of a Land law, on the basis of a Land law or in some other way at the coming into force of the Basic Law, the transfer of property shall be considered as having been effected before the disposal.

(1) The Bundesrat shall meet for the first time on the day of the first assembly of the Bundestag.

(2) Until the election of the first Federal President, his functions shall be exercised by the President of the Bundesrat. He shall not have the right to dissolve the Bundestag.

(1) The eligibility for election of officials (Beamte), employees (Angestellte) of the public service and judges of the Federation, of the Laender and of the Gemeinden may be restricted by legislation.

(2) For the election of the first Bundestag, of the first Federal Convention and of the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany the Electoral Law to be adopted by the Parliamentary Council shall apply.

(3) The functions of the Federal Constitutional Court pursuant to Article 41, paragraph (2), shall be exercised, pending its establishment, by the German High Court for the Combined Economic Area which shall decide in accordance with its Standing Orders (Rules of Procedure).

Changes in the existing organization of notaries in the Laender Baden, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg-Baden and Wuerttemberg-Hohen-zollern shall require the approval of the Governments of these Laender. Rh