Reading: What does it mean when a law is codified at iazeemi.com
Codification is the process of bringing together a legal act (or several related acts) and all its amendments into a single new act.
encoding can take 2 forms:
- vertical: when an original act and its amendments are incorporated into a single new act; or
- : where 2 or more original acts covering related topics, and any amendments to them, are merged into a single new act.
- consolidation
- consent procedure
- query procedure
- ordinary legislative procedure
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Unlike the case of consolidation (i.e. the unofficial simplification of a legal act that incorporates its modifications), the new act goes through the full legislative process (for example, ordinary legislative procedure, consultation procedure or consent) and replaces the acts that are being codified.
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