Vittorio Emanuele III
By the grace of God and by the will of the Nation
King of Italy
By the grace of God and by the will of the Nation
King of Italy
The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies approve;
We sanction and promulgate the following:
Article 1
Associations, Bodies and Institutes established or operating in the Kingdom and in the colonies are obliged to inform the Public Security Authorities about the constitutive act, the statute and internal regulations, and must provide a list of names of their members and social partners, in addition to any other information about their organization and activities as often as they are requested by the aforementioned Authorities for the sake of public order and security.
The obligation to communicate this information is the responsibility of all those who have direct or representative functions in the Associations, Bodies or Institutes in their central and local offices, and must be fulfilled within two days of notification of the request.
Offenders will be punished with arrest for not less than three months and with a fine between 2,000 and 6,000 lire.
Knowingly providing false or incomplete information carries a penalty of imprisonment for not less than one year and a fine between 5,000 and 30,000 lire, in addition to disqualification from Public Offices for five years.
In all cases of omission, false or incomplete statements, the Association may be dissolved by the Prefect's Decree.
Article 2
Without prejudice to the sanctions referred to in Article 1, officials, employees, civil servants and military personnel of every order and rank of the State, as well as officials, employees and servants of provinces and municipalities, or of Institutes subject to the Law on the Protection of the State, Provinces and Municipalities, who also belong (even as low-level members) to Associations, Bodies or Institutes operating within or outside the Kingdom — even partially — in a clandestine or occult manner, or whose members are still bound by secrecy, are hereby dismissed or removed from their rank or employment and are otherwise fired.
The aforementioned officials, employees, civil servants and military personnel are required to declare whether they belonged or belong (even if as low-level members) to Associations, Bodies and Institutes of any kind constituted or operating within or outside the Kingdom, if they are specifically requested to provide such declarations. In the case of state employees, the declaration is to be made to the Minister; in all other cases report to the prefect of the province.
Officials, employees, civil servants and military personnel who fail to comply with this request within two days of notification shall be liable to a salary suspension for a period of not less than fifteen days and not more than three months. In cases where false or incomplete information is knowingly provided, the penalty of salary suspension will be for not less than six months.
We order that the present declaration, with the seal of the State, be inserted in the Official Book of Laws and Decrees of the Kingdom of Italy, dispatching it to anyone who is forced to observe it and to observe it as State Law.
Given in Rome on this day of November 26, 1925
Vittorio Emanuele
Mussolini.
Seen by the Minister of Justice: Rocco.
