Description
The JASPI database of the Ministry of Justice gives you access to:
- laws and other legislative acts
- full-text consolidated versions following each amendment
- international treaties, agreements and other sources of law (published in the Collection of Legislative Acts)
- judicial decisions and opinions of the courts (published in the Reports of Judicial Decisions of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic)
- decisions, opinions and findings of the Slovak Constitutional Court
- selected decisions of regional and district courts
- information on legal experts, translators and interpreters
JASPI also contains:
- laws and other legislative acts published in the Collection of Legislative Acts since 1945
- up-to-date texts of laws, public notices and other legal provisions
- texts of opinions and decisions of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic since 1961
- documents of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic since the establishment of the independent Slovak Republic (1st January 1993)
- selected decisions of regional and district courts
- information on legal experts, translators and interpreters
The JASPI database is an open, non-commercial system designed to give citizens free access to comprehensive legal information provided by the State. The purpose of the project is to provide fast and user-friendly access to legal information.
The ‘legislation workflow’ information system has two functional applications.
- Bills are produced by the ‘Legislation Editor’ application, whose main function is to create draft bills, draft amendments and draft multi-amendments. The ‘Editor’ automatically creates structured legal documents (XML structure) according to the Slovak Government's approved legislative drafting rules. Users can view the consolidated version of a legal document with the amendments to it highlighted. The final output is an XML structured document. The bill is then published in the ‘Legislation Portal’ application in various formats.
- The portal follows the legislative processes of all types of legal documents. Special attention is paid to the inter-departmental consultation procedure, which also involves public consultations (comments may be submitted by anybody). Users of the portal can search easily for legal documents via several criteria, and can also be alerted by email or RSS feed with changes to the legislative stage or publication of a new draft in their chosen areas. The aim is to make the legislative process more transparent and accessible to everyone.
Legal instruments
Primary legislation (acts)
- constitutional acts (always primary)
- acts (primary or derived from constitutional acts)
Secondary legislation (below the level of an act)
- government regulations – always secondary
- legal provisions laid down by central government bodies – always secondary
- legal provisions laid down by local government bodies (authorities) – primary or secondary
- legal provisions exceptionally issued by bodies other than government bodies – always secondary
In this system of legal provisions, where a given act has precedence this basically means that all the other legal provisions must flow from the act, be compatible with it and not contradict it. This means that in practice, in a situation where a legal provision lower down the hierarchy contradicts a higher-ranking provision, it is the higher-ranking one that must be acted on.
