Date of the judgment: 10.06.1998.
Official publication: 11.06.1998.
On Compliance of the Cabinet of Ministers 23.April, 1996 Resolution No.148 "On the Procedure by which the Property is Restituted or its Value is Compensated to the Persons, whose Administrative Deportation from the Territory of the Latvian SSR or from the Part of the Territory of the Latvian SSR that Has Been Incorporated into the RSFSR is Recognised Unfounded" and the Cabinet of Ministers Resolution of 4 November, 1997 No.367 "Amendments to Regulations No.148 of April 23, 1996 "The Procedure by which the Property or its Value is Compensated to the Persons, whose Administrative Deportation from the Latvian SSR is Recognised Unfounded" with the Law "On the Determination of the Status of Politically Repressed Persons Suffered during the Communist and Nazi Regimes" and Other Laws
Constitutional Court decided to declare the Cabinet of Ministers 23 April, 1996 Resolution No. 148 ”On the Procedure by which the Property is Restituted or its Value is Compensated to the Persons, whose Administrative Deportation from the Territory of the Latvian SSR or from the Part of the Territory of the Latvian SSR that has Been Incorporated into the RSFSR is Recognised Unfounded” and the Cabinet of Ministers 4 November, 1997 Resolution No. 367 ” Amendments to Resolution No. 148 of April 23, 1996 ” The Procedure by which the Property is Restituted or its Value is Compensated to the Persons, whose Administrative Deportation from the Latvian SSR is Recognised Unfounded” as not being in compliance with the second part of Article 14 of the law ” On the Structure of the Cabinet of Ministers”, with Article 9 of the law ”On the Procedure by which Laws and Other Acts Adopted by the Saeima, State President and the Cabinet are Promulgated, Published, Take Effect and Being Valid”, with the first part of Article 10 of the law ”On the Determination of the Status of Politically Repressed Persons Suffered during the Communist and Nazi Regimes” and the first part of Article 15 of the law ”On Privatisation Certificates” and null and void from the moment of their adoption.