Constitutional law No. 294/1990 Coll., changed and amended by which are constitutional law No. 100/1960 Coll., ČSSR Constitution and constitutional law No. 143/1968 Coll., on the Czechoslovak Federation and by which election period is shortened of national committees that were constitutional-law framework of the local administration reform, when the system of national committees was cancelled and, in parallel, self-administration restored at the level of municipalities. The basic laws the implemented the reform of local administration were, first of all, law No. 367/1990 Coll., on municipalities (municipal establishment), law No. 90/1993 Coll., on the Capital of Prague, law No. 425/1990 Coll., on district authorities and, finally, law No. 368/1990 Coll., on elections to the boards of representatives in municipalities. These laws were, till November 11, 2000, also the basic legal regulations according to which Municipal District Prague 10 acted and decided, if we omit legal regulations of constitutional character, such as constitutional law No. 1/1993 Coll., the Constitution of the Czech Republic and constitutional law No. 23/1991 Coll., by which the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. On November 11, 2001 the new law on the Capital of Prague came into effect (under No. 131/2000 Coll.) as the consequence of the reform of public administration under process accompanying the introduction of the regional establishment.

The Capital of Prague originated on the basis of law No. 90/1993 Coll., on the Capital of Prague, namely, with effect from November 24, 1990. The Capital of Prague is a municipality and since January 1, 2000 also a region as provided for by constitutional law No. 347/1997 Coll., on the creation of higher territorial self-administrative wholes. You will find details about the position of the Capital of Prague, as the region, in law No. 129/2000 Coll., on regions (regional establishment).

The territory of the Capital of Prague is articulated into the so-called municipal districts that originated with effect of law No. 418/1990 Coll. at the places of former national committees or were established on the basis of that law. The relations between the Capital of Prague and municipal districts are provided for, at the one hand, by the law on the Capital of Prague, or special laws, at the other hand, by the Statute of the Capital of Prague that entrusts tasks to municipal districts above the framework of the law on the Capital of Prague in the field of independent competence (self-administration) and transferred competence (state administration). Within the extent provided for by the law and the Statute the municipal districts act in legal relations in their name and bear responsibility ensuing from those relations. As a juridical person, Municipal District Prague 10 acts through its bodies which are Municipal District Board Prague 10, Municipal District Council Prague 10, the Mayor of Municipal District Prague 10, the Authority of Municipal District Prague 10 and special bodies of Municipal District Prague 10 (that may be established only on the basis of special laws for the exercise of transferred competence). As its advisory bodies Municipal District Board Prague 10 may establish committees (it always establishes the Financial and Control Committees), Municipal District Council Prague 10 Commissions. There it applies that Municipal District Prague 10 is represented outwards by its Mayor, when he may perform the acts that require prior consent of Municipal District Board Prague 10 of Municipal District Council Prague 10 only after their prior approval.