Some of the laws approved by the National Assembly (AN) in 2023 have ended up in limbo, since they have not yet been published in the Official Gazette, so technically they have not entered into force nor can their compliance be required by either the authorities or the citizens, reported Acceso a la Justicia.
Following a review of the instruments approved by the parliament with a majority in favour of the government, 14 laws were approved, but four of them (28.57%) have not been subjected to the final procedure to consider that they are actually in force.
Access to Justice detailed that the laws not published in the Official Gazette are: Special Law for Agricultural Workers, the Law Approving the Agreement between the governments of Venezuela and Turkey regarding the Promotion and Reciprocal Protection of Investments, the Budget Law for the Economic Financial Year of 2024 and the Special Law on Annual Indebtedness.
On this, he explained that Article 215 of the 1999 Constitution states that “the Law will be promulgated upon publication with the corresponding “compliance” in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
For its part, Article 1 of the Civil Code states that “the Law is binding from its publication in the Official Gazette or from the later date that it indicates.” Meanwhile, the Law on Official Publications, whose Article 10 states that “laws and other legal acts of the State with general effects will enter into force from their publication in the Official Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
He also stressed that to date there has been no information on whether Nicolás Maduro vetoed these laws in whole or in part, or whether he signed them into law.
Regarding the Law approving investments between Venezuela and Turkey, they explained that the moment of its promulgation is at the discretion of the Executive, as established in article 217 of the Constitution.
They stated that “delays in the publication of laws approved by Parliament have been recorded for years, and although in 2023 the number of regulations that were lost following being approved by deputies was lower than that recorded in the previous period, when eight of these legal instruments suffered the same fate, the truth is that this practice and its dangerous effects remain in force.”
They stressed that these irregularities “reinforce the situation of defencelessness and legal insecurity” of citizens, since it generates uncertainty regarding the approved instruments.
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2024-07-19 14:12:16
