Lietuviškai

                   THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF                   
                    THE REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA                    

                         D E C I S I O N                         

     On  the  dismissal of the initiated legal proceedings of the
case   concerning   the  compliance  of  the  Government  of  the
Republic  of  Lithuania  Resolution No 146 "On the restoration of
buildings  for  religious  communities"  of 28 February 1994 with
the  fifth  part  of  Article  43  of  the  Constitution  of  the
Republic  of  Lithuania,  Articles  2 and 4 of the Restitution of
the  Status  of  Catholic Church in Lithuania Act, and Articles 1
and   3  of  the  Law  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania  "On  the
Restoration   of   Houses  of  Prayer  and  Other  Buildings  for
Religious Communities" of 14 February 1990
  
                   29 September 1994, Vilnius                    

     The  Constitutional  Court  of  the  Republic  of Lithuania,
composed  from  the Justices of the Constitutional Court Algirdas
Gailiūnas,    Kęstutis   Lapinskas,   Zigmas   Levickis,   Vladas
Pavilonis,   Pranas   Vytautas  Rasimavičius,  Stasys  Stačiokas,
Teodora Staugaitienė, Stasys Šedbaras and Juozas Žilys,
     the secretary of the hearing - Rolanda Stimbirytė,
     the   petitioner   -   Seimas   member   Antanas  Napoleonas
Stasiškis  and  Zenonas  Juknevičius,  representatives of a group
of Seimas members,
     the  party  concerned - Jadvyga Aleksaitė, representative of
the  Government  of  the  Republic  of  Lithuania,  head  of  the
Department  of  Private  Ownership  under the Ministry of Justice
of the Republic of Lithuania,
     in  the  court  hearing  of  Case No 13/94 subsequent to the
petition  submitted  by  a group of the Seimas of the Republic of
Lithuania  members  requesting  to  investigate if the Government
of   the   Republic  of  Lithuania  Resolution  No  146  "On  the
restoration   of  buildings  for  religious  communities"  of  28
February  1994  is  consistent  with the fifth part of Article 43
of  the  Constitution  of  the  Republic of Lithuania, Articles 2
and  4  of  the Restitution of the Status of Catholic Church Act,
and  Articles  1  and  3  of the Law of the Republic of Lithuania
"On  the  Restoration of Houses of Prayer and Other Buildings for
Religious Communities",

			has established:

     The  representative  of  the  party  concerned  requests  to
dismiss  the  initiated legal proceedings of the case because the
Government  has  recognized  the  Resolution  in dispute null and
void.

     The Constitutional Court
			holds that:

     On  23  September  1994 the Government adopted Resolution No
881  "On  the  recognition  of  the Government of the Republic of
Lithuania  Resolution  No  146 of 28 February 1994 null and void"
(Official  Gazette  "Valstybės  Žinios", No 75 - 1415, 1994). The
Government   under  this  Resolution  recognized  the  disputable
legal  act  null  and  void.  The  annulment of the act of law in
dispute  shall  be  grounds  to  adopt  a decision to dismiss the
initiated legal proceedings.

     Conforming  to  the  fourth part of Article 69 of the Law on
the  Constitutional  Court,  the  Constitutional Court has passed
the following
			decision:	

     To dismiss the initiated legal proceedings of the case.