{{Short description|First legal document of Peru}} The '''Provisional Regulations''' ({{langx|es|Reglamento Provisional}}) are the name given to an official document issued on February 12, 1821, by [[José de San Martín]] as [[Protectorate of Peru|Protector of Peru]], considered the first legal document of the newly born state.<ref name=Gob.pe>{{Cite news |title=202 AÑOS de la promulgación del REGLAMENTO PROVISIONAL expedida por GRAL. DON JOSE DE SAN MARTIN en la ciudad de HUAURA |url=https://www.gob.pe/institucion/munihuaura-huaura/noticias/698734-202-anos-de-la-promulgacion-del-reglamento-provisional-expedida-por-gral-don-jose-de-san-martin-en-la-ciudad-de-huaura |date=2023-02-10 |work=[[Gob.pe]]}}</ref> The 20-article long document replaced the [[Viceroyalty of Peru|system of government]] established by the [[Spanish Empire]], and applied to the territories occupied by the [[Liberating Expedition of Peru|Liberating Army]], which at the time were the province of [[Chancay]]—where San Martín's headquarters were set up in [[Huaura]]—and the intendancies of [[Intendancy of Tarma|Tarma]] (location of [[Cerro de Pasco|Pasco mine]]) and [[Intendancy of Trujillo|Trujillo]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=San Martín, el "territorio libre" de las intendencias de Tarma y de Trujillo y la Independencia del Perú |journal=[[Riva-Agüero Institute|RIRA]] |url=https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/9253485.pdf |last=O’Phelan Godoy |first=Scarlett |issue=1 |volume=8 |pages=39–77 |via=[[Dialnet (bibliographic database)|Dialnet]] |doi=10.18800/revistaira.202301.003 |year=2023 |trans-title=San Martín, the “free territory” of the intendancies of Tarma and Trujillo, and the Independence of Peru |issn=2415-5896}}</ref> These territories were organised in four [[Regions of Peru|departments]], each headed by a president: [[Department of Trujillo|Trujillo]], [[Department of the Coast|Coast]], [[Department of Huaylas|Huaylas]] and [[Department of Tarma|Tarma]].<ref name=Gob.pe/><ref>{{Cite news |title=El aniversario del manuscrito de Huaura, la primera constitución que tuvo el Perú |url=https://elcomercio.pe/eldominical/articulos-historicos/bicentenario-el-aniversario-del-manuscrito-de-huaura-la-primera-constitucion-del-peru-noticia/ |last=Paredes Laos |first=Jorge |date=2021-02-06 |work=[[El Comercio (Peru)|El Comercio]]}}</ref>
It was effective until the '''Provisional Statute''' ({{langx|es|Estatuto Provisional}}) was promulgated on October 8, 1821.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Los inicios del constitucionalismo peruano (1821-1842) |journal=[[PUCP|Pensamiento Constitucional]] |url=https://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/pensamientoconstitucional/article/download/3304/3146/0 |last=García Belaúnde |first=Domingo |issue=4 |volume=4 |pages=235}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Constitution of Peru]]
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==External links== *[https://www.congreso.gob.pe/Docs/sites/webs/quipu/constitu/1821a.htm ''Reglamento Provisional de 1821''], at the website of the [[Congress of Peru]]. {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Reglamento Provisional''}}
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