Palestine Order In Council
The Constitution of Mandatory Palestine, formally known as the 10 August 1922 Palestine Order-in-Council, was the codified constitution of Mandatory Palestine. It was first published on 1 September 1922 in an Extraordinary Issue of the Palestine Gazette. The constitution, which was published approximately two weeks after the League of Nations approval of the Mandate for Palestine, officially replaced the British military occupation of Palestine, which had been in force since the end of World War I, with a civil administration. The constitution included the following terms: * Primary executive authority exercised by the British High Commissioner for Palestine * The creation of an Executive Council * The creation of an elected Legislative Council, operating at the discretion of the High Commissioner * The creation of civil and religious court system * Validation of existing British legislation In the months before the British departure from Palestine, the 1922 Order in Council wa ...
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