The Council of XII is nominated by the Grand and General Council, which designates the components, at the beginning of each legislature, from its members.
The Presidency is entrusted to the Regents, who do not have a vote, unless they are members by direct nomination.
The Council of XII appears in the statutes of the early 1600’s as a body of administrative justice; with the law n° 13 of June 5, 1932, its functions and competencies were reorganized as we know them today; namely, to examine third-instance appeals when the appeal sentence differs from that of the first-instance when dealing with voluntary jurisdiction, to consent the alienation of endowments when dealing with administrative justice, to pass judgement on appeals from whoever retains that his legitimate interests have been infringed on by an administrative act.
