Accounting of legislation as activity for ordering information about legislation

Abstract

In the article accounting of legislation as one of the activities, the content of which is ordering of information about legislation is being researched. Accounting of legislation is an activity that is not related to any changes in legislation (its quality in terms of content and / or form remains unchanged). The object of accounting of legislation is information about legislation, and the result is a new qualitative (orderly) state of information about legislation. Accounting of legislation is an activity related to the collection, fixation, classification, storage, maintenance in the control (actual) state of normative-legal acts, and providing information about them (text of the normativelegal act of official or information-reference character), which is carried out both by public authorities and other entities (enterprises, institutions and organizations, individuals).

Depending on where information about legislation is collected, fixed and stored, there are card, magazine and electronic accounting. In card and magazine accounting all information about normative-legal acts is stored on paper, and in electronic accounting -in electronic form (electronic servers, computer hard drives, CDs, etc.).

Depending on the subjects of accounting of legislation, there are official, semi-official and unofficial accounting of legislation. Official and semi-official accounting of legislation is carried by public authorities in accordance with their powers defined by normative-legal acts, and unofficial -by all other entities (legal entities and individuals) on their own initiative to meet their own needs or on a commercial basis. The result of official accounting of legislation is the ordering of the official texts of normative-legal acts, and the results of semi-official and unofficial - the ordering of the texts of normative-legal acts of information-reference character.