Online version of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989, on the website of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This web page also contains links to the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and information on the status of ratifications, declarations and reservations. The Convention can be viewed in English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
Online version of the official bulletin of Monaco made freely available on the Principality's official government Website. The journal is published weekly and contains the text of legislative materials including laws, ordinances, decrees and legal announcements. The site presents the journal from April 1998 onwards to date offering a facility to browse issues by date, subject topic or by type of document or legal instrument. A search form for free-text keyword queries is also provided.
Web page describing the law reform initiatives of Canada's Corporate and Insolvency Law Policy Directorate (CILPD), which is responsible for reviewing Canada's business and insolvency laws, regulations and policies. The CILPD forms part of the Marketplace Framework Policy Branch of Industry Canada. The site publishes a number of consultation documents, questionnaires and background research documents on subjects such as bankruptcy and insolvency law, corporate not-for-profit law and Canada's law on cooperatives. A list of the legislation currently under review is published.
The Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes is a legislative office providing services to the Minnesota State Legislature, and to other state offices and agencies. Services include drafting and amending bills and other legislative documents, drafting and adopting administrative rules, and editing and publishing the Laws of Minnesota. The services are described in detail under duties.
The Office of the Revisor of Statutes of Maine State Legislature is responsible for the drafting and editing of legislation for the state of Maine in the United States. The Revisor's Office also maintains a database of statutes, and publishes the statutes online. This site publishes two documents: the Revisor's Report which details non-substantive changes to the database of statutes (e.g.
Website offering free public access to Tasmania's Consolidated Legislation Online. The project is managed by the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania, and aims to improve the availability of the full-text of the legislation. The site publishes Acts consolidated to 1st February 1997 and new legislation since then, as well as statutory rules from the beginning of 1998. Users are offered plenty of guidance, help and background information to help them to differentiate between the sessional and historical versions of the legislation.
NetRegs aims to provide practical assistance to managers of small or medium sized businesses in Scotland and Northern Ireland to help them comply with their environmental responsibilities. Produced jointly by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency, it is designed specifically to help clarify and simplify the environmental legislation affecting manufacturing and service sector operations. The site provides guidance by environmental topic or business type.
Website of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. The Agency was set up by the European Union to serve the information needs of those interested in occupational health and safety issues in member countries. This section of the site provides access to directives, standards and guidelines along with other official documentation of the European Union. Full text legislation is linked to on the EUR-Lex database. There is also guidance to health and safety legislation of individual member countries with links to key texts provided on external sites.
Web pages of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, on the website of the State's Department of Health. The Task Force was formed in 1985, and convenes to consider important public policy issues to do with advances in medicine. A fact sheet on the website outlines the Task Force's mandate, and how its recommendations have had an impact on US legislation and court decisions.
Les Publications du Québec, the Québec government printer, provides Québec legislation for free on its website. Both statutes and regulations are available as amended ("revised"); the statutes are in English and French while the regulations are in French only. There is a search facility covering the revised legislation, as well as an alphabetical index by title of statute (with links to corresponding regulations). Copies of the Gazette officielle du Québec are also available back to 1996. The site can be viewed in French or English.
