Constitution

Texts

Constitution 1922

Constitution 1949

Constitution 1989

Constitution 1990

Constitution 1994

Constitution 1997

Constitution 2011 in Hungarian – English – Italian

Religious Communities

National and international agreements

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Hungary on religious Armed Forces and the Border Police in 1994

Agreement between the state and Catholic episcopate 1948

Office in the Church 1959

Agreement between the state and Catholic episcopate 1950

Relationship between the state and the Catholic Church 1964

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Hungary on the re-establishment of diplomatic relations and the repeal of the Act signed in Budapest September 15, 1964 with the annexed Protocols, and two Appendices 1990

Agreement between the Holy See and the Republic of Hungary on the funding of public service activities and other purely religious (“Life of Faith”) carried out by the Catholic Church in Hungary, and on some issues of equity and Additional Protocol in 1997

Law 2013 amendment to the agreement with the Catholic Church in 1997

Agreement between the Republic of Hungary and the Holy See in 1997

Exchange of instruments of ratification of the Basic Agreement between the Holy See and Hungary

Association Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Hungary and the Hungarian Jewish Communities, 2000

Agreement between the State and the Reformed Church, 1998

Agreement between the Hungarian Republic and the Holy See as amended in 1999

Agreement between the Holy See and Hungary amending the financing of public service and other purely religious activities

Signature of the Agreement between the Holy See and Hungary in 2013

Ratification of the Agreement between the Holy See and Hungary in 2013 

Laws and decrees

Equivalence between faiths recognized and not recognized, 1947

Establishment of the State Office for Church affairs, 1951

Law of the Kingdom of Hungary on the freedom of religion in 1895

Freedom of conscience and religion of the churches 1990

Decree Law on Religious Associations in 1955

Decree-Law on the activities of the religious orders allowed

Decree-Law on the approval required to hold an ecclesiastical state n. 22/1957

Decree Law on the establishment of the State Office for Ecclesiastical Affairs no. 25/1959

Law on the right to freedom of conscience and religion, as well as churches, denominations and the legal status of religious communities in 2011 amended in 2013

Law 2013 amendment to the agreement with the Catholic Church in 1997 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Governmental Ordinance for the implementation of the Decree-Law no. 25/1959 on the establishment of the State Office for Ecclesiastical Affairs

Statutes and Internal Rules

Statute of the Hungarian bishops’ conference 2003

Statute of the Hungarian Islamic Community in 1988

Hungarian Reformed Church – Statute 1994

Hungarian Reformed Church – On the election and the vote for the ecclesiastical offices 1996

Hungarian Reformed Church – Church Service 2000

Hungarian Reformed Church – Activities of the ministers, pensions and care 2002

Hungarian Reformed Church – Church Service 1967 consolidated version 2005

Hungarian Reformed Church – on higher education institutions 2007

Hungarian Reformed Church – Law on Education, consolidated version , 2008

Reformed Church of Hungary. On the system of monitoring of the works of the church in the districts and parishes ( and related forms ) in 2012

Reformed Church of Hungary. On ecclesiastical discipline , the content and methods of pastoral service. Provision in 2000 , integrated in 2005, 2006, 2012 and 2013

Reformed Church of Hungary. On the spiritual ministry and the pastors of the Church . Act of 2013 (unified text)

Statute of organization and management of the parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2005

Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of 1992 as amended 1997

Lutheran Church – Church Service 2005

Lutheran Church – on the establishment of ecclesiastical bodies 2005

Lutheran Church – on the legal system of the Church in 2005

Lutheran Church – On the election and vote for the ecclesiastical offices 2005

Bodies And Church Properties

Confiscation, Restitution and Compensation of Properties of Religious Communities

Law on property of clerical possessions 1991

Law on the restitution of confiscated properties and compensation in 2011

Public notices on the restitution of church properties in 2011

Law on the Protection of Cultural Property in 2001 

Case Law

Hungarian Constitutional Court Judgment 4/1993 on the restitution of confiscated church properties

Constitutional Court Case on the Management of Religious Groups’ Registers 2013 

Sustenance of the Clergy and Financing of Religious Communities

Laws and decrees

Social insurance of the clergy 1959

Government Decree on the establishment of a fund for Ecclesiastical Affairs no. 170/1951

Government Decree on state subsidies to religious faiths of December 28, 1968

Financial Statements of Hungarian Lutheran Church 2014 

Individual and Collective Religious Freedom and Minorities

Religious Assistance

Lutheran Church – The military chaplaincy 2007 

Cemeteries

Catholic Church of Hungary. Cemeteries and burial of 1999, as subsequently amended

Funeral Regulations of the Catholic Church in Hungary

Municipal Regulation of the activities of cemeteries and burial in 2013 

Measures

Law on equality of citizens before the law in 1867

First anti-Jewish law entered into force May 29, 1938

The second anti-Jewish law entered into force May 5, 1939

Third anti-Jewish law entered into force August 18, 1941

On the Hungarian Jews who have suffered persecution and mitigation of the consequences of 1946

Law on Minorities Rights, 2011 

Teaching of Religion and Religious Schools

Laws and decrees

Law of September 26, 1920 relating to the regulation of access in the Universities of people of non- Christian origin. (Known as the numerus clausus)

Maintenance of non-state schools in charge of the State, 1948

Decree-Law No teaching of religion. 5 1949

Ministerial Decree for the implementation of the Decree-Law no. 5/1949 on the teaching of the religion of 6 October 1949, 1,101

On the functioning and use of public educational institutions 20-2012

Decree n. 229/2012 about freedom of education of Churches

Some rules of functioning of the Religious Schools 2013

Principles of public funding for religious education in 1997

Rules concerning the freedom of conscience and freedom of religion in public schools managed by the Churches until 2011 

Regulations, Decisions, Provisions, Ordinances, Circulars

Ministerial Order on the religious instruction of 24 March 1957, no. 21/1957 

Provisions of the Criminal Code

Codes

Criminal protection 1961 abstract

Criminal code 1978 abstract

Criminal code 1978 (English language)

Criminal code 1978 (Hungarian language)

Criminal Code, 2012 

Provisions of the Civil Code

Codes

Civil code 1960 abstract 

Emigration and work

Laws and decrees

Labor Code Act 1992 

Family

Laws and decrees

Decree no. 31/2006 on the protectionof minors and the administration of the guardianship authority

Fetal Protection Act 1992 consolidated version 2018 

Communication

Laws and decrees

Rules on Bible printing in 1992 

Museums, Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage

Laws and decrees

Law on the Protection of Cultural Property in 2001 as amended in 2014

Law on the protection of public documents, public archives and the protection of private archives, 1995 amended in 2012