Legislation

Investment related law compendium

Selection of laws of Bosnia Herzegovina made freely available on the Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) Website. The FIPA is a government agency providing free information for foreign investors. Legislation on the site relates to foreign investment issues and deals with areas such as competition, business, employment, free zones, the Central Bank, foreign trade policy, customs policy and foreign direct investment in Bosnia Herzegovina. Laws are presented in English as PDF documents.

Macao Legislation

A selection of Macao legislation provided on the internet by the Government Printing Bureau. Macao is a special administrative region of China and a former Portuguese colony. The laws are provided in full, in Chinese and Portuguese. The Basic Law of Macao, codes, legislation and regulations are included along with treaties and inter regional agreements with China and Hong Kong.

Constitution of the Maldives

This section of the President of the Republic of the Maldives website provides a functional translation into English of the 2008 Constitution made freely available online in PDF. The document covers the powers of the state, the fundamental rights and duties of citizens, the role of the President, the Cabinet of Ministers, the legislature -the People's Majlis and the People's Special Majlis and the administration of local regions (Atolls).

Federal Register of Legislation

Website of the Australian Government's Legislation Register which provides access to Commonwealth primary and secondary legislation. The Legislation Register is managed by the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and contains the full text and details of the lifecycle of individual laws and the relationships between them. Legislation is available as amended (in both current and historical versions), and as originally passed. Bills and gazettes are also provided.

Lois et règlements

The Constitution and selected, codes, laws and treaties of Sénégal, as published on the official Government website. The laws and interface are presented in French, which is the official language of the Republic of Sénégal. There are codes covering a number of areas including telecommunications, environment, investment and forestry. A copy of the Constitution and other laws and regulations are also presented. All the legislation can be downloaded in full. The site can be viewed in French throughout

Constitution of Andorra

Full text copy of the Constitution of Andorra made freely available in English on the Consell General Principat d'Andorra (Andorran Parliament) website. The Constitution deals with the sovereignty of Andorra, rights and freedoms and the legislative procedure. It also sets out the role of the state bodies including the Coprinceps (the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell in Spain), the Consell General, the Executive Council (Govern),the Constitutional Tribunal, local government and the judiciary.

New Zealand Legal Information Institute

The New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII) is a joint project of the University of Otago, the Victoria University of Wellington and the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). It provides free access to decisions of New Zealand courts and tribunals, starting at various dates in the 1990s and 2000s; New Zealand acts in force (all dates); selected articles from six legal journals, the New Zealand Treaty Series (1944 - ); and publications of the New Zealand Law Commission. The content can be browsed or searched.

Laws of Gibraltar

The Laws of Gibraltar website is provided by the Government of Gibraltar and includes all consolidated primary and secondary legislation currently available and a database of all judgments published in the bound volumes of Gibraltar Law Reports, 1812 onwards. The Laws can be searched by title, keyword, legislation number, date or type of legislation and there is also an index of legislation by title, giving the law number, commencement date and topic. The Judgments database can be searched by keyword, title (party name) and/or case number and filtered by court and/or date.

Summaries of EU legislation

This section of the EU's Europa portal provides summaries of EU legislation in all policy areas. The information is arranged by subject, including agriculture, competition, employment and social policy, human rights, the internal market, regional policy and transport; these subjects are further sub-divided by specific area of law. Each section has an introduction to the policy, an outline of the legislation, details of relevant policy documents and information about future developments. Links are provided to the legal texts and official documents mentioned.

Consulta Online

Consulta Online is a website providing information about the Italian Constitutional Court, produced by Professor Pasquale Costanzo of the University of Genoa. The site has full-text decisions of the Constitutional Court back to 1970. The Italian Constitution also available, along with other constitutional laws. There are also links to related websites. The site is almost wholly in Italian only, but background notes about the Court, and copies of the Constitution, are provided in English, French, German and Arabic.

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