Article 77

The Government may not, without delegated powers from the Houses, issue decrees having the force of ordinary law. When in extraordinary cases of necessity and urgency the Government adopts under its own responsibility provisional measures having the force of law, it must on the same day submit them for enactment to the Houses, which, if dissolved, shall be convened for this purpose and meet within five days. The aforesaid decrees shall lose effect from their inception if they are not enacted into law within sixty days from their publication. The Houses may, however, regulate by law any legal relationships arising from decrees that have not been enacted into law.