Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court on Sunday ruled unconstitutional an article regulating the election of independent members of the Shura Council (upper house), as well as the law on the composition of the Constitutional Assembly, the state-run al-Ahram online reported.

The Shura Council will be dissolved after a new People's Assembly (lower house) is elected, said the verdict.

Islamists-dominated Shura Council has assumed the legislative power temporarily, as the People's Assembly was dissolved last year due to the unconstitutionality of the law articles that ruled the electoral process.

The court also voided the Emergency Law, saying that it included exceptional measures that could be taken by the president during the emergency state.

The verdict was issued amid intensive security measures outside the court due to the possible tensions between supporters of Islamist-oriented President Mohamed Morsi and his opponents.