REGULATIONS ON EXECUTING AUTHORITY DECISIONS IN HUNGARY FROM WORLD WAR II TO THE CHANGE IN THE POLITICAL REGIME IN 1990

Abstract

During the times of World War II, legislations adopted in the era of pre-world war Hungary were effective with respect to administrative authority proceedings, except for extraordinary rules of law. There was no law regulating administrative authority proceedings in a general and complex manner, and the provisions of Act XXX of 1929 were applied as effective. Legislative development appeared to be halted in this area. However, this issue had a practical reason, because 1929 was the year marked as the year of the Great Depression, a global economic crisis, causing particularly severe consequences in Hungary. In this situation, it is not surprising that legislators were not very attentive to the issue of progressively regulating administrative authority proceedings. As a result of the Depression, changes were introduced with respect to authority proceeding regulations, but the primary aim of such changes was not to develop the proceeding in legal terms, but to make public administration affairs cheaper. Subsequently, upon Hungary barely having made its way out of the crisis and managing the crisis consequences, Europe already was getting close to the brink of World War II.