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Rechtsinformationssystem

Official web pages of the Legal Information System of the Republic of Austria, co-ordinated and operated by the Austrian Federal Chancellery. At present, five sections of the Legal Information System are available on the Internet free of charge: database of Austrian federal law, database of state law, the case law, with full-text of the rulings, of the Administrative Court and of the Constitutional Court, and the norm list of the Administrative Court (the list of citation of regulations). The full-text of the Federal Law Gazette is available, from the 1983 edition onwards.

Recueil systématique du droit fédéral (Confoederatio Helvetica)

Official compilation of the laws of the Confederation of Switzerland, available in French, German and Italian versions. This collection of texts of Swiss federal law is available free of charge. Texts are available mainly in PDF format, with some HTML. The main listing is alphabetically by title. There are also lists of internal law (constitutional, penal, private, educational and social, defence, transport, health, economy), a list of international agreements, and a list of selected public law texts. The site includes a search engine.

Oikeusministeri: Ministry of Justice, Finland

Web pages of the Finnish Ministry of Justice in Helsinki. The pages are in Finnish, and some pages are in English or Swedish. The Ministry is responsible for legal policy, statute policy and the administration of justice in Finland. Particular duties of the Ministry include the drafting of laws, safeguarding the work of the judiciary, the punishment of offenders, and participating in the making of EU legislation. An organisational chart is included in English, and current legal news items are also available.

North Carolina General Statutes

Collection of General Statutes for the US State of North Carolina, on the North Carolina General Assembly website. A table of contents lists statutes in chapter number order with links to texts in HTML, PDF and RTF formats. The statutes are updated to 2007. A free text search box with tips on searching is also provided.

Utah Code and Constitution

This section of the Utah State Legislature website provides full text access to the Utah Code in HTML format with the option to download individual Code titles in zipped WordPerfect file format. A full text version of the Utah Constitution is also provided along with the Official Report of The Proceedings and Debates of the Convention Assembled to Adopt a Constitution for the State of Utah. A page providing information on titles due for recodification in the current year is also given.

Boletin Oficial del Estado

The Spanish official gazette, the Boletin Oficial del Estado (BOE), publishes legislation. Since January 2009, the electronic version has had official authentic status. The Boletin is available on this website from 1995 onwards. The site also has a 'Legislacion' page with current codes, a database of laws from 1960 onwards and a historical archive of official gazettes from 1661 to 1967.

Iowa Law

Section of the Iowa General Assembly website providing the Code of the US State of Iowa (current and historical versions), Iowa acts (1993 - ) and the current texts of the Iowa Constitution, Administrative Code and Court Rules. A compilation of all Iowa election laws is also available. The Administrative Code is accompanied by the Iowa Administrative Bulletin (1997 - ), which publishes official notices about changes to the Code. All the laws on the site are both searchable and browseable.

Irish Statute Book

Online collection of Irish statutes passed by the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament) covering the years 1922 to 2010. The service is freely provided by the website of the Irish Attorney General. The information is organised in three sections- Acts of the Oireachtas 1922-2010, Statutory Instruments 1922-2010 and a chronological listing of statutes from 1922-2005. The first two sections are arranged by date.

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