In his article, the author deals with the characteristics of the administrative divisions in Slovenia, when it was a part of the first Yugoslav state, during the period from 1929. (when the king established his dictatorship), up until April 1941, when the war broke out. As the author stales, all levels of authority underwent considerable changes at that time. Together with the renaming of the country into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the country was also divided into new administrative units - the banovinas. and the Slovene part of Yugoslavia incorporated into the Dravska Banovina. In 1929. the jurisdiction and organisation of the Ban's Office and lower authorities were defined for the next ten years to come, and with the new legislature in 1933/34, the same manner of organisation also came into force for the rural and urban municipalities. This was followed by the merging of properties on a municipal level. The constitution imposed by the king in 1931 renewed a parliamentary system which was more of a sham than a democracy, and the constitutional decrees on the autonomy of the banovinas were never implemented. Therefore, during the entire time of its existence, the Ban's Council of the Dravska Banovina (1931-1941) was merely an advisory agency of the ban. Despite these limitations, however, it strived to extend its powers and to contribute to the social, economic, cultural and educational development of Slovenia.