SO 2017-57 Legislative Archive labelling and linking Act 2017

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If a document has become effective, and it has not been amended or repealed yet, it shall contain, in bold and green letters the following word: "ENACTED".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If a document had at one time effect, yet it has been repealed, it shall contain, in bold and red letters the following word: "REPEALED".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

Could you specify that the label is not in the topic title please? This is because if the title starts with the label, then the file numbers get all out of sequence. Also, it seems to me that Article 8 is rather superfluous: the law is universal, except when it makes exceptions.

Also, I would like to mention that this could also just be an amendment to the Legislative Archive act... But I'm fine with it as a stand-alone as well.

I agree with the Right Honourable Abdoa's points.  In addition, I ask that Article 7 be clarified as I do not understand its purpose nor its implementation.

I like the color-coding idea, but I would suggest formatting titles as such:
{File Number} {Title} [{Label}]

In other words, the current format would be maintained except that the label would be appended (rather than the proposal, which would prepend the label), and they would be color coded based on the label.

Also, I would also suggest that this proposal be formatted as an amendment to SO#2016-10 so that we could also amend the Legislative Archive Act to reflect how it actually was implemented.

Yes, good idea with amending SO 2016-10 (especially since the only nation who has ever maintained the Legislative Archive is myself, and I've never been MoJ, since no one else ever seemed interested at the beginning, so I took it upon myself as Chair of Parliament, which frankly from a certain point of view makes just as much if not more sense, as the MoJ only needs to know the enacted laws, whereas the Chair needs to keep track of all file-numbers).