SO 2017-57 Legislative Archive labelling and linking Act

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Legislative Archive labelling and linking Act 2017

An Act to make further provisions based on SO 2016-10, The Legislative Archive Act.

WHEREAS Our Region has a Legislative Archive, serving to make public all measures that from the Corpus of Our Law;

AND WHEREAS it has no provision made for the labelling of these measures;

WILLING to make such provisions;

BE IT ENACTED by Us, by and with the advice of Parliament, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

Chapter One: the labelling
Article 1
This Act shall apply to all public documents that are to remain in the Legislative Archive.

Article 2
The label of any such document shall give the status of that document. The label shall be placed at the front of the document, before any of its actual texts.

Article 3
If a document has become effective, and it has not been amended or repealed yet, it shall contain, in bold and green letters the following word: "ENACTED".

Article 4
If a document has become effective, and it has been amended after it first becoming of effect, it shall contain, in bold and orange letters the following word: "AMENDED".

Article 5
If a document had at one time effect, yet it has been repealed, it shall contain, in bold and red letters the following word: "REPEALED".

Article 6
If a document has another status not mentioned, that status will be stated in bold and orange capital letters.

Chapter Two: the linking
Article 7
Immediately following the label of any document in the Legislative Archive, links, when necessary, shall be provided to other documents, whether effective or not, that in any way do amend or repeal the document. The reason of linking shall be given as well, a way as shown hereunder, or in a similar way:

[Name amending document, url link including] – Amending [provision X of] this Bill.

Chapter Three: final provisions
Article 8
The Minister of Jurisprudence shall have the responsibility to follow these regulations.

Article 9
This Act may be cited as "[The] Legislative Archive labelling and linking Act 2017".

Monday the 24th day of July, 2017
The Rt. Hon. Nassau-Windsor MP LSM, President of the Union

Status: on drafting table, no co-sponsors