National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus

The National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus is the registration system of all legal acts, which constitute the legislation of the Republic of Belarus.

The establishment of the National Register is carried out in accordance with the Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No.369 of July 20, 1998. “On the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus”.

The National Register is administered with the goals of:

• providing the unified system of the legislation of the Republic of Belarus;
• creating the standard databank of legal information and establishing the Fund of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus, updating them on paper and electronically (magnetic) carriers;
• providing timely information to state bodies, legal individuals and common or regular persons on the legislation of the Republic of Belarus;
• achieving inter-state legal information exchange.

• The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus;
• decisions of republican referenda;
• decrees, edicts and executive orders of the President of the Republic of Belarus;
• laws of the Republic of Belarus;
• treaties of the Republic of Belarus;
• decisions of the House of Representatives and the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus;
• decisions of the Government of the Republic of Belarus and executive orders of the Prime-minister of the Republic of Belarus;
• conclusions and decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Belarus;
• decisions of the Plenum of the Supreme Court and Plenum of the Supreme Economic Court;
• legal acts of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus and other state bodies directly subordinated to the President of the Republic of Belarus;
• normative legal acts of the National Bank, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, ministries and other republican bodies of the state administration;
• normative legal acts of the regional and Minsk city Councils of Deputies, regional and Minsk city executive committees and executive and administrative bodies of the lowest level; and
• other normative legal acts of the Republic of Belarus.

Legislative acts included in the National Register are placed into the Standard Databank of Legal Information, and are also published in the official print version of the National Register.

Publication and updates of the National Register are the responsibility of the National Center of Legal Information of the Republic of Belarus.

In accordance with the Edict of the President of the Republic of Belarus No. 124 of February 28, 2006, "On Bringing a Change to the Regulations on the National Register of Legal Acts of the Republic of Belarus", legal acts that have been included into the National Register are subject to official publication in the print edition and the electronic version of the National Register, with an indication of the registration number of the National Register.

The electronic version of the National Register is an exact copy of its print edition and is published on the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus, simultaneously with the publication of the corresponding print edition.

More detailed information about the National Register and its print version can be found on the National Legal Internet Portal of the Republic of Belarus (in Russian).