court or federal tribunal of first instance and at least one federal court or federal tribunal of appeal shall be instituted.
Article 148
1. The President and the Ministers; the Chairman and members of the Senate; the Chairman and members of the House of Representatives; the President, Vice-President and members of the Supreme Court, the Attorney-General at that Court; the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and members of the General Audit Department; the President of the Circulation Bank and such officials, members of high government bodies and other authorities as indicated by federal law shall be tried also after their resignation and unless the federal law provides otherwise, by the Supreme Court in first instance and at the same time in the last resort for misfeasances and other crimes and transgressions to be indicated by federal law, committed during their time of office.
2. The federal law can reserve the cognizance of civil cases and civil penal cases against certain categories of persons and bodies, for federal courts or tribunals indicated by that law.
3. The cognizance of civil cases concerning regulations made by or in virtue of a federal law, may be reserved by federal law for the federal courts or tribunals indicated thereby.
4. In cases to be indicated by federal law, appeal for cassation can be made to the Supreme Court against judgements in last resort of other courts or tribunals but the Supreme Court.
Article 149
The organization, the competency and the procedure of the federal courts and tribunals are regulated by federal law.
Article 150
The Supreme Court exercises the supreme supervision on the activities of the other federal courts and tribunals in accordance with the regulations to be established by federal law.
Article 151
Subject to the provision in article 148 and without prejudice to the provision in article 50, justice is administered in the participant territories in civil cases and in civil penal cases, by courts and tribunals instituted by or in virtue of the laws of these participant territories.
Article 152
The organization, the competency and the procedure of the courts and tribunals instituted by or in virtue of laws of the participant territories are regulated by these laws.
Article 153
1. The Supreme Court exercises the supreme supervision of the activities of the highest judicial bodies of the participant territories in accordance with regulations to be established by federal law.
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