Article 121 [Community Governments]
(1.1) There is a French Community Government and a Flemish
Community Government, the composition and functioning of
which are established by law, adopted by majority vote as
described in Article 4, last paragraph.
(1.2) There is a German-speaking Community Government, the
composition and functioning of which are established by law.
(2) Without prejudice to Article 137, the Regional bodies
described in Article 39 include a Government for each
Region.
Article 122 [Incompatibility]
Members of each Community or Regional Government are
elected by their Councils.
Article 123 [Remuneration, Limited Immunity]
(1) The law establishes the composition and functioning of
Community and of Regional Governments. But for the case of
the German-speaking Community Government, this law is
adopted by majority vote as described in Article 4, last
paragraph.
(2) A law, adopted by majority vote as described in Article
4, last paragraph, determines those matters relative to the
composition and to the functioning of the French Community
Government, the Walloon Regional Government, and the
Flemish Community Government, which are regulated by their
respective Councils, either by decree or by ruling as described
in Article 134, according to the case. This decree and
this ruling described in Article 134 are adopted by a
two-thirds majority vote, provided that a majority of members
of the Council concerned are present.
Article 124 [Indemnity]
No member of a Community or of a Regional Government may
be prosecuted or pursued on the basis of opinions or votes
expressed by him in the line of his duties.
Article 125 [Accusation]
(1) All Council members benefit from those immunities
described in Articles 58 and 59 Regional and Community
Councils possess the right to accuse members of their respective
Governments and to confront the latter before the Supreme
Court of Appeal which alone may judge them, chambers
together, but for that which is statuted by law regarding the
exercising of civil suits by victimized parties and concerning
crimes and misdeeds which Regional or Community
Government members may have committed outside the line of
their duties.
(2) A law shall determine the cases of responsibility, the
sentences to be passed upon members of Regional or
Community Governments, in addition to the manner of
proceeding against them, either on the basis of the accusations
expressed by their Councils or on the basis of a civil suit
engaged by a victimized party.
(3) Those laws described in Paragraphs (1) and (2) must be
adopted by a majority vote, as described in Article 4, last
paragraph.
(4) Until covered by the law described in Paragraph (2),
Regional and Community Councils possess the discretionary
power to accuse a member of their Government, and the
Supreme Court of Appeal to judge the latter in those cases
described in penal law and through the application of penalties
stipulated therein.
Article 126 [Regional Secretaries of State]
Constitutional dispositions relative to Regional and Community
Government members, in addition to those executory laws
described in Article 125, last paragraph, apply to Regional
Secretaries of State.