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Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – [email protected] Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry of Justice Lise Garkier Hendriksen – [email protected] Secretariat for Legal Information, Ministry of Justice

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Page 1: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Dates and time in Danish law&

planned time management in Lex Dania XML

Dan Bjerring – [email protected] Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry of Justice

Lise Garkier Hendriksen – [email protected] for Legal Information, Ministry of Justice

Page 2: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Dates and time in Danish law today

Page 3: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

The making of an act

The Parliament(Folketinget)

The Government

1st reading

2nd reading

3rd reading

Passage

committees

committees

Royal Assent

The Queen

Promulgation (publication in the Gazette)

Page 4: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Basic dates

Passage of bill

28 May 2004

Royal Assent (official date of signature)

9 June 2004

Promulgation / publication in Gazette

10 June 2004

Page 5: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

The coming into force

The date of the coming into force limits the period from which the act can (and shall) be enforced by the authorities: the judiciary, police, etc.

Usually stated explicitly in the act - e. g. 1 July 2004- Can however be provided in the act that the date of the coming into force wholly or partly is decided administratively by the minister of the particular field of law.

“§ 278. The act comes into force 1 July 2004. The Minister of Justice determines the date of the coming into force of chapter 4.”

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Date of coming into force

Passage of bill

28 May 2004

Royal Assent (official date of signature)

9 June 2004

Promulgation / publication in Gazette

10 June 2004

Coming into force

1 July 2004

Page 7: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Validity / application

The period of validity limits the period of time within which matters can be comprehended by the act - the act is applicable to matters taking place within this period of time.

Usually identical with the date of the coming into force

Often only a start date, not an end date, exists.- However, “sunset clauses” determining the day of repeal of the act do appear occasionally.

The start date can be a date set before the date of the coming into force, though it is regarded legally inappropriate.

“§ 278. The act comes into force 1 July 2004. § 278, subs. 2. The act is applicable from 1 January 2004.”

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Date of validity and date of the coming into force- identical

Passage of bill

28 May 2004

Royal Assent (official date of signature)

9 June 2004

Promulgation / publication in Gazette

10 June 2004

Coming into force and

validity/applicability

1 July 2004

Page 9: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Date of validity and date of the coming into force- not identical

Passage of bill

28 May 2004

Royal Assent (official date of signature)

9 June 2004

Promulgation / publication in Gazette

10 June 2004

Coming into force

1 July 2004

Validity/applicability

– can (and shall) be applied in matters taking place from

1 January 2004

Page 10: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Amendment of an act

An act can have provisions that amends or repeals other acts, wholly or partly

The amendments can be of whole sections, subsections or only single words

Ӥ 277. Act no. 966 of 23 October 2001 is amended by the following:

1. § 23 shall be worded as follows:

“§ 23. Bla blabla bla.”

2. In § 54 substitute “100.000 DKK” with “500.000 DKK”

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Date of coming into force - amendment

The date of coming into force of the amendments can differ from the day of the coming into force of the act in its entirety.

”§ 277. Act no. 966 of 23 October 2001 is amended by the following:1. § 23 shall be worded as follows:“§ 23. Bla blabla bla.”2. In § 54 substitute “100.000 DKK” with “500.000 DKK”

§ 278. The act comes into force 1 July 2004. § 278, subs. 2. § 277, no. 1, comes into force 1 January 2005.§278, subs. 3. § 277, no. 2, comes into force 1 June 2005.”

Page 12: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Various dates of the coming into force

Passage of bill

28 May 2004

Royal Assent (official date of signature)

9 June 2004

Promulgation / publication in Gazette

10 June 2004

Coming into force

1 July 2004

Coming into force of § 277

(Partly) 1 January 2005

(Partly) 1 June 2005

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Planned time management in Lex Dania XML

Page 14: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Lex Dania xml schema structure

LexDania.xsd

Retsinfo.xsd

Act.xsd Order.xsdBill.xsd

- defines the 5 building blocks (content encoding, addressing, meta data, structure, reference constructions)

- domain specific schemas defining meta data, titles, tables, graphics etc.

- defines the characteristics of each document type

Application schema level

Intermediary schema level

Meta-schema level

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Two kinds of dates

Time management is part of the meta data in the top of each document (application schema)

Single “physical” actionssignature, promulgation (official public notation) etc.placed directly in elements in the source of the

document

Dates referring to a period of timeenforcement, validity etc. placed in elements by reference to an id for a “start

date” and an “end date”.

Page 16: Dates and time in Danish law & planned time management in Lex Dania XML Dan Bjerring – dbj@jm.dk Legislation Technique Division, Law Department, Ministry

Example: The act on annual accounts- meta data concerning the whole document

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=“ACT M.Retsinfo_1.0.xsl" ?><Document xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=“ACT

M.Retsinfo.LexDania_1.0.xsd">

<Meta id="ThisDocument"><DocumentTitle>Act on annual accounts</DocumentTitle><DocumentId>AD000903</DocumentId><Number>448</Number><Year>2001</Year><DateOfPublication>2001-06-08</DateOfPublication><AnnouncedIn>Lovtidende A</AnnouncedIn><Ministry>Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs</Ministry>

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Meta data concerning the whole document - continued (1)

<PlaceOfSignature>Given on Christiansborg Castle,</PlaceOfSignature>

<DateOfSignature>2001-06-07</DateOfSignature>

<Seal>Under Our Royal Hand and Seal</Seal>

<Sign id="Sign_01"/>

<Signature REFid="Sign_01">Margrethe R</Signature>

<Sub-Sign id="Sign_02"/>

<Signature REFid="Sign_02">Ole Stavad / Minister of Economic and Business Affairs</Signature>

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Meta data concerning the whole document - continued (2)

<Change id="Change_01"/><Ref_Type REFid="Change_01">2</Ref_Type><Ref_Accn REFid="Change_01">A20030030230</Ref_Accn><Ref_Af REFid="Change_01">2003-04-30</Ref_Af>

<EditorialNote id=“EditNote_01"/><Ref_Type REFid=“EditNote_01">0</Ref_Type><Ref_Text REFid="EditNote_01">Following documents contain provisions on the coming into force of this document:</Ref_Text>

<EditorialNote id="EditNote_02"/><Ref_Type REFid="EditNote_02">5</Ref_Type><Ref_Accn REFid="EditNote_02">B20010109105</Ref_Accn><Ref_Af REFid="EditNote_02">2001-12-21</Ref_Af>

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Meta data concerning the whole document - continued (3)

<Concerns id="Concern_01"/><Ref_Type REFid="Concern_01">5</Ref_Type><Ref_Accn REFid="Concern_01">B20010109105</Ref_Accn><Ref_Af REFid="Concern_01">2001-12-21</Ref_Af>

<DateEffective id="Effective_ThisDocument"/><StartDate REFid="Effective_ThisDocument">2001-06-09</StartDate>

<AccessionNumber>A20010044830</AccessionNumber><DocumentType>ACT MAIN</DocumentType><Rank>A</Rank>

</Meta>

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Meta data for single provisions- with diverging dates of enforcement or validity

<Meta id="Ref_P167" REFid="P167"><DateEffective id="Effective_P167"/><StartDate REFid="Effective_P167">2001-07-07</StartDate><EndDate REFid="Effective_P167">2002-07-07</EndDate>

</Meta>

<Meta id="Ref_P168" REFid="P168"><DateEffective id="Effective_P168"/><StartDate REFid="Effective_P168">2001-07-07</StartDate>

</Meta>

<Meta id="Ref_P129S1" REFid="P129_S2"><DateEffective id="Effective_P129_S2"/><StartDate REFid="Effective_P129_S2">2001-07-07</StartDate><EndDate REFid="Effective_P129_S2">2002-07-07</EndDate>

</Meta>

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Versions of documents today

Amendments to acts are always passed as the very content of an act or as part of another act

Consolidated acts (a new version of an act and its later amendments) are made on the initiative of the ministry administrating the act in question

All 4 documents below are separately officially published

Act with amendments (1)

Original act Consolidated act

Act with amendments (2)

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Versions of documents in xml

Exact mark up of different dates of the coming into force and validity enables us to (in principle):

- show automatically generated versions of documents with the exact valid content on a chosen date

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Problems identified

How small units one can change by acts of amendments?

- most likely, we will not be able to handle all kinds of amendments as they occur today, e.g.:

“2. In § 11, § 36 and § 125 substitute “100.000 DKK” with “500.000 DKK””

Sufficiently qualified “mark up” personnel in the different authorities, ministries etc.?