State Act
Section 154
Art. 154 – The Administrative Tribunal is empowered to:– 1. Decide on appeals filed against the decisions of the administrator of the comunidades in non-contentious matter, as well as on those which pertain to the balance sheet of the annual income and expenditure of the comunidades; 2. Decide on the irregularities of the auctions of the comunidades, either noticed or informed by the administrator or alleged in complaints filed by private parties, in terms of this Code; 3. Grant permission to the comunidades to file suits in accordance with article 9, save in what is provided in the article 353, paragraph 3 of article 380 and article 388 and article 305 of the Portuguese Civil Procedure Code to withdraw, admit and compromise, as well as authorize the respective expenditure; 4. Decide complaints against the acts of the comunidades on the matters regarding derramas, easements, distribution of waters, usufruct of fallow lands or groves and of common pasture, save when it is related to the cases of verification and assessment of compensation; 5. Confirm the judgment of uncollected debts and annulment of dues to the comunidades and pronounce judgment on the questions of prescription; 6. To examine the annual accounts of the Pensioners’ Bank (Caixa de Aposentações).