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This judicial institution comprises two kinds of organizations:
The first: non-judicial Bodies comprising:
- The Council’s Bureau composed of the President, the Government Delegate, the Head of the Judicial Inspection Organization and the Chamber Presidents. The duties of the said Bureau consist in assuring the smooth run of the administrative judiciary, its prestige and independence and it exercises the same functions as those of the Supreme Judiciary Council on personal matters concerning the magistrates.

- The Plenary Body of Justices, composed of all titular magistrates of the Council, meeting, under the chairmanship of its President, once a year in October, to take knowledge and discuss the report of its President on the business performance of the Council. At the same meeting, it shall submit its proposals in the field of legislative, organizational and administrative reforms.

- The Administrative Chamber, assuming the consultative functions of the Council, presided by the President of the Council or his delegate chosen from among the chambers’ presidents and in which all the Council’s magistrates shall participate with the exception of those attached to the government commissariat or the Ministry of Justice.
The second: The judicial Bodies comprising:

- The Litigation Council composed of the State Council’s president (or in his absence the president of the highest Chamber in rank), the Chambers presidents and three counselors selected by the President at the beginning of each year. It shall meet in the presence of its President and, at least, four of its members. It shall ipso facto examine the cases concerning the judges, those submitted in furtherance of the law and those referred to it by a resolution from the President or the Bureau upon request from the government commissioner or the president of the Chamber examining the case.

- The judicial Chambers, whose number is actually five, issue their decisions under the chairmanship of the Chamber’s president (or, in his absence, the counselor highest in rank) and the participation of two counselors one of whom is the rapporteur.

- The Disciplinary Board for judges composed of the President of the State Council, the Government Commissioner and the three Heads of the Chambers who are highest in rank. The trial before the Board takes place in camera and the decisions are issued by majority and are self- executory, not subject to any appeal even before the Court of Cassation.

- The Disciplinary Board for Justice Auxiliaries composed of three magistrates appointed by decision of the Minister of Justice after seeking the opinion of the Board’s Bureau. The position of Government Commissioner is entrusted to a judicial inspector appointed by the Head of the Judicial Inspection Authority.

 
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