Date of the judgment: 20.04.1999.
Official publication: 21.04.1999.
On Compliance of Paragraph 29 of the Cabinet of Ministers Regulation of 20 May, 1997 No.187 "The Procedure for the Repayment in Cash to Persons who were Granted Compensation Certificates (Vouchers) for the Former Landed Property in Rural Areas" with Articles 105 and 91 of the Satversme of the Republic of Latvia, as well as with Section 1 (2), Para 3 of Section 12 (2) of the Law "On Land Privatization in Rural Regions" and Section 9 of the Law "On the Determination of the Status of Politically Repressed Persons Suffered during the Communist and Nazi Regimes"
Constitutional Court decided to declare paragraph 29 – as regards persons, mentioned in the second part of Article 12 of the July 9, 1992 Law ”On the Land Privatization in Rural Regions”, if they have the status of politically repressed persons - of the May 20, 1997 Regulations No. 187 by the Cabinet of Ministers ”The Procedure for the Repayment in Cash to Persons who were Granted Compensation Certificates (Vouchers) for the Former Landed Property in Rural Areas” as unconformable with Article 9 of the April 12, 1995 Law ”On the Determination of the Status of Politically Repressed Persons Suffered During the Communist and Nazi Regimes” and null and void from the moment of its adoption.