The Commonwealth Register is a constituent organisation of the Parliament of Law.
| Commonwealth Register | |
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| Establishment of the Parliament of Law | |
| Employees | 182 |
| Service | Commonwealth Legal Service |
The Commonwealth Register publishes the federal law of the Commonwealth for the Parliament of Law. Its editors write each new law into the codes, so that the law on any one subject can be found in one place. Most of the work is done by drafting officers of the Commonwealth Legal Service, and the Register, with a staff of about 180 at Statute House in Oslola, is the smaller of the parliament’s two establishments. Since 2062, it has also published government data under the Commonwealth Register Act.
Laws reach the Register from the parliaments and, in the case of inter-ministerial legislation, from the Mandatory Ecclesia. Each is entered in the Active Legislation in its original text, and then written into the Registered Codes with old provisions and contradictions taken out. The editors are not permitted to change the meaning of a law, and if a republic assembly objects to a code, the original wording is restored, although there have been very few such cases.
Its publications include:
- Active Legislation, every federal law in its original text.
- Registered Codes, the laws arranged by subject.
- Legal Gazettes, plain explanations of the codes for each republic.
Of the three, the gazettes are read the most, and copies are sent to every municipal library. Reform of old laws is left to the Law Reform Commission of the General Chambers, and the Register has no part in it.