# Article 27 of the Constitution of Brazil - Jurisdiction: Brazil (BR) - Article: 27 - Chapter (as indexed): Chapter II: – Social - Source document: Brazil Constitution - Canonical (HTML): https://www.portablelaw.com/provision/a4f698e2-844e-459b-a9ed-22a3967cbe0d - This document: https://www.portablelaw.com/provision/a4f698e2-844e-459b-a9ed-22a3967cbe0d/md - Constitution: https://www.portablelaw.com/countries/561c3433-2160-4ca0-8e5a-8f5e9dbd522c ## Verbatim text ```` promulgation of this a mendment, shall draft legislation for the protection of public service users. a rticle 28. t he current public employees on probation are ensured of the period of two years of effective exercise to acquire tenure, without prejudice to the assessment referred to in paragraph 4 of article 41 of the f ederal c onstitution. a rticle 29. a s of the promulgation of this a mendment, the compensation, salaries, remuneration, retirement pay, pensions, and any other types of remuneration shall comply with the limits arising from the f ederal c onstitution, receipt of excess being forbidden under any circumstances. ar ticle 30. th e bill of supplementary law mentioned in article 163 of the fe deral co nstitution shall be submitted by the ex ecutive br anch to the na tional co ngress within one hundred and eighty days, at most, of the promulgation of this am endment. a rticle 31. t he public employees of federal governmental entities and of entities owned by the fe deral Government, the local administration employees, and the members of the uniformed police force of the former f ederal territories of a mapá and Roraima, who, subject to the presentation of proof, were regularly exercising their functions and rendering services to those former te rritories at the time they were transformed into States; the uniformed policemen who were appointed by virtue of a federal law, and paid by the Union; furthermore, the civil servants in these States whose employment status has already been acknowledged by the Union shall be included in a special job class to be terminated within the federal government services, being ensured of their specific rights and advantages, and the payment of remuneration differences, under any circumstances, being forbidden. p aragraph 1. t he members of the uniformed police force shall go on rendering services to their respective States, in the quality of detailed personnel, subject to the legal and regulatory provisions which govern the corps of their respective uniformed police forces, with due regard for the compatibility between the duties of their function and their rank in the hierarchy. p aragraph 2. t he civil servants shall go on rendering services to their respective st ates, in the quality of detailed personnel, until they are placed in a federal governmental agency. ar ticle 32. T he Federal Constitution shall henceforth include the following article: “Article 247. The laws provided for in item III of paragraph 1 of article 41, and in paragraph 7 of article 169, shall establish special criteria and guarantees for the loss of office of a tenured public employee who, by virtue of the duties of his effective post, performs exclusive activities of s tate. Sole paragraph. In the event of insufficient performance, the loss of office shall only take place by means of an administrative proceeding in which the adversary system and ample defense are ensured.” miolo_constitution_versao_camara.indd 250 17/6/2010 15:01:11 Constitutional Amendments 251 ar ticle 33. fo r the purposes of article 169, paragraph 3, i i, of the fe deral c onstitution, untenured servants are those who were admitted into a governmental entity, an associate government agency, or a foundation, without having taken an entrance examination consisting of tests, or tests and presentation of academic and professional credentials, after the 5th of o ctober, 1983. a rticle 34. t his c onstitutional a mendment shall come into force on the date of its promulgation. b rasília, June 4, 1998. THE DIRECTING BOARD OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES: Michel Temer, p resident – Heráclito Fortes, f irst vice- p resident – Severino Cavalcanti , s econd vice- p resident – Ubiratan Aguiar, f irst s ecretary – Nelson Trad, s econd s ecretary – Paulo Paim, t hird s ecretary – Efraim Morais, f ourth s ecretary. THE DIRECTING BOARD OF THE FEDERAL SENATE: Antônio Carlos Magalhães, p resident – Geraldo Melo, f irst vice- p resident – Júnia Marise, s econd vice- p resident – Ronaldo Cunha Lima, f irst s ecretary – Carlos Patrocínio , s econd s ecretary – Flaviano Melo , t hird s ecretary – Lucídio Portella , f ourth s ecretary. p ublished in the Official Journal , June 5, 1998. miolo_constitution_versao_camara.indd 251 17/6/2010 15:01:11 Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil 252 Constitutional amen D ment n o. 20, 1998 Alters the social security system, establishes rules for the transitional period, and makes other provisions. t he d irecting b oards of the c hamber of d eputies and of the f ederal s enate, under the terms of paragraph 3 of article 60 of the f ederal c onstitution, promulgate the following Amendment to the constitutional text: a rticle 1. t he f ederal c onstitution shall henceforth be in force with the following alterations: “Article 7. ................................................................................ .................................................................................................. X ii – family allowance paid to each dependent of low-income workers, under the terms of the law;..................................................................................................XXXIII – prohibition of night, dangerous, or unhealthy work for minors under eighteen years of age, and of any work for minors under sixteen years of age, except as an apprentice, for minors above fourteen years of age; ................................................................................................ ”“Article 37. .............................................................................. .................................................................................................. pa ragraph 10. re ceiving retirement pensions arising from ```` ## What this means (mechanical reading aid, not legal advice) - The index files this text under article 27 of the Constitution of Brazil. - The index files it under the chapter heading “Chapter II: – Social”. - The passage runs to about 874 words. - Read plainly, it mentions assembly and association — it protects gathering together or joining a group, union or party (the words used: “associate”); it mentions pay and pensions — it sets pay, salary, allowance or pension terms (the words used: “salaries”); it mentions police powers — it sets out what the police or other security services may do (the words used: “police”). - **Caveat:** The row’s stored title is a body fragment, not a heading (“the n ational c ongress, within one hundred and twenty days of the”), so it is not used as the provision’s title here. - **Caveat:** The index gives this passage an article number but stores a body fragment where a heading would be, so the number could not be cross-checked against the text. 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