Austria

Population Statistics

8,665,550

Total Population

1,299,833

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

30
sep

Austria National Council 2024

2024

26 September 2008

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Constitution of the Federal Republic of Austria (1930, last amended 2014)

Updated: June 2015

Article 87, paragraph 3 states:

Business shall be allocated in advance among the judges of the Court of justice for the period provided by Federal law on the organization of the courts. A matter devolving upon a judge in accordance with this allocation may be removed from his jurisdiction only by decree of the chamber competent, in case of his being prevented from the discharge of his responsibilities or his being unable to cope with his duties, due to their extent, within a reasonable time.

 

Article 88a states:

Federal Law may provide for posts of substitute judges assigned to a superior court of justice. The number of such posts may not exceed three per cent of the number of judge posts assigned to the subordinate courts of justice. The employment of the substitute judges in charge at subordinate courts of justice and eventually at the superior court itself shall be determined by the competent chamber of the superior court, defined by Federal Law. Substitute judges may be entrusted only with the substitution of judges of subordinated courts of justice resp. of judges at the superior court of justice itself and only if these judges are prevented from the discharge of their responsibilities or are unable to cope with their duties, due to the extent of these, within a reasonable time.

 

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Austria (1930, last amended 2014)