Law on Making Legislation (Amended)

立法法（修订版）

ກົດໝາຍວ່າດ້ວຍ ການສ້າງນິຕິກຳ (ສະບັບປັບປຸງ)

Document No.: 6/NA
Issued by: 老挝国会 National Assembly (ສະພາແຫ່ງຊາດ)
Date issued: 2021-11-16

Summary

This Law stipulates the formulation activities and categories of normative legal documents, aiming to regulate the legislative process and ensure the uniformity and legality of legal instruments. This Law applies to the drafting, amendment, and repeal of all types of normative legal documents, clarifying their hierarchy and legal effect, so as to ensure the coordinated operation of the national legal system.

Articles

Article 1

Article 1: Purpose
This Law prescribes the principles, rules, and procedures for the creation of legal normative documents, in order to make the creation and improvement of legal normative documents efficient, transparent, and uniform throughout the country, ensuring that the content of legal normative documents is of quality, rigorous, easy to understand, enforceable, and consistent with the actual situation of the country, capable of aligning with regional and international standards, and contributing to the construction of a rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Article 2

Article 2. Creation of Legal Normative Documents
Legal normative documents refer to legal documents that regulate social relations, have general binding force or specific binding force, and are created, approved, and promulgated by competent central and local state authorities.
The creation of legal normative documents refers to the process of activities carried out by competent central and local state authorities in drafting legal normative documents, from preparation, data collection, and drafting, to review, approval, and promulgation of legal normative documents.
The creation of legal normative documents includes the improvement of legal normative documents. The improvement of legal normative documents refers to the supplementation, deletion, or modification of inconsistent principled content.

Article 3

Article 3: Types of Normative Legal Instruments
Normative legal instruments are divided into two types as follows:
1. Normative legal instruments with general binding force;
2. Normative legal instruments with specific binding force.

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