New Constitutional Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Normative Legal Acts

On February 17, 2011 the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Normative Legal Acts became effective. This new comprehensive law consisting of 18 chapters and 98 articles replaced the previous law on normative legal acts dated November 26, 1999.

This Constitutional Law determines the rules for drafting, adoption, officialization, publication, effectiveness, interpretation and systematization of normative legal acts. Besides the provisions on collision of normative legal acts, gaps in legislation, types of normative legal acts The Law also covers the issues such as general requirements for normative legal acts, structure of normative legal acts, norm creating process and state registry of normative legal acts.

The 5^th chapter of the Law is about realization of generally accepted principles and norms of international law and norms of the treaties which Azerbaijan is a party to in the normative legal acts of the Republic of Azerbaijan. There are also provisions about compulsory legal and linguistic and abuse expertise of normative legal acts.

"Structure of the opinion of compulsory legal expertise of draft normative legal acts and the "List of abuse factors in normative legal acts (and its drafts)" are annexed to the Law.