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Articles of law on religious rituals

Article 46
Religious rituals shall be performed in the religious structures.
Religious rituals may also be executed outside the religious structures in places accessible to the citizens, without approval, with the previous announcement to the public administration authority responsible for internal affairs, in line with the law regulating the right to public assembly.
If the religious ceremonies are executed at the request of the citizens (family saint day, wedding, baptism, confirmation, circumcision, confession, consecration, etc.) it is not necessary to report them as stipulated in Paragraph 2 of this Article, unless these ceremonies are executed in a public place.

Article 47
Religious servants exercising a religious ceremony or religious affair may receive a compensation, that is, reward for the religious ritual from the person at whose request the ritual or the affair is being executed, on the basis of the autonomous regulations of the religious community.
The religious community shall keep a record of the revenues referred to in Paragraph 1 of this article, in line with the law and the autonomous regulations of the religious community.
The records referred to in paragraph 2 of this article may not include data on the identity of the person who requested the performance of a religious ritual.

Source: The Law on Freedom of Religion or Beliefs and Legal Status of Religious Communities of Montenegro.

D 20 October 2022    ANikola B. Šaranović

CNRS Unistra Dres Gsrl

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