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The Senate is entitled to pass judgment where an accusation is brought by the Chamber of Deputies:

1. Against the President of the Republic for high treason (§ 67 Constitutional Charter);

2. Against members of the Government for violation of constitutional or other laws (§ 79 Constitutional Charter).

The first elections to the Senate of the Czechoslovak Republic shall take place to the exclusion of the 12$th$ and 13$th$ constituencies as well as to the exclusion of the district of Hlučín from the 7$th$ constituency, the district of Vitoraz from the 5$th$ constituency, the district of Valčice from the 6$th$, and to the exclusion of the territories of Spiš and Orava which are the subject of a plebiscite.

The second and third scrutinies shall take place for the other elections without regard to elections in these last mentioned districts.

The territories excluded from the first elections shall, for the first period for which the Senate is elected, elect their senators later in a manner which will be fixed by regulation.

The Government shall take steps to secure for legionaries the exercise of their franchise rights and shall assign to them seats which may happen to be superfluous in some of the electoral districts.

This law shall come into force simultaneously with the law which served as the Introduction to the Constitutional Charter.

The execution of it shall be entrusted to the Minister of the Interior.