The Constitution of Mandatory Palestine, formally known as the 10 August 1922 Palestine

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, was the codified

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Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

. 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

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, officially replaced the British military occupation of Palestine, which had been in force since the end of

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, with a civil administration. The constitution included the following terms: * Primary executive authority exercised by the British

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* 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 was supplemented by the Palestine Order in Council, 1948, which gave the High Commissioner power to "by Order make such provision as appears to him in his sole discretion to be expedient for the Government of Palestine until the withdrawal of His Majesty from the Government of Palestine, or in contemplation of or preparation for that withdrawal", subject only to the oversight of the British crown.Palestine Gazette Extraordinary, No. 1650, February 27, 1948, p. 168 and Supplement No. 2, pp. 281–283.
/ref> This Order in Council was laid before Parliament on January 27, 1948 and came into effect on March 1, 1948. In Israel, most of its provisions were effectively replaced first by the

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of 1948, then by the Transition Law of 1949, and eventually by the

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. Today, part of the constitution remains in effect in

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and the

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