Please see attached herewith a Bill of mine to update and improve Chapter 1 of the Lawbook.
The Bill brings Chapter 1 of the Lawbook in accordance with the present Charter by removing obsolete legal terms, providing for the affixation of Landsraad decisions to veto Imperial Decrees to the Lawbook, and clarifying that the term Imperial Decree includes decrees issued by the Steward or the Landsraad regnant. It also clarifies for the purposes of the Lawbook the components of Federal Law and provides them with terms.
AN ACT
To amend Chapter 1 of the Lawbook.
BE IT ENACTED by the authority of the Landsraad of the Imperial Republic of Shireroth here in the Palace of Zirandorthel assembled:
1. That the first chapter of the Lawbook is amended to read as in the Schedule to this Bill.
2. That this Bill shall have immediate effect upon passage in accordance with this Landsraad's Rules of Procedure.
SCHEDULE
Chapter 1: On the Lawbook
Section A: Contents and Affixations
1. This Book is the Lawbook. All laws made by the Landsraad shall be recorded in full in this Book.
2. All Treaties ratified by the Landsraad shall be affixed to this Book.
3. Decisions of the Landsraad to levy tax shall be affixed to this Book.
4. Decisions of the Landsraad to repeal or veto an Imperial Decree shall be affixed to this book.
5. Legislative agreements between the Landsraad and the Kaiser shall be affixed to this book.
6. For the purposes of this Section, "Imperial Decree" shall include decrees made by a Steward or Landsraad regnant.
Section B: Terms for Federal Legislation
1. A law made by the Landsraad shall, for the purposes of this Book, be referred to as an Act of Landsraad or as a Landsraad Law.
2. A law decreed by the Kaiser shall, for the purposes of this Book, be referred to as a Kaiseral Law.
3. The term Imperial Law shall, for the purposes of this Book, refer to laws made by the Landsraad as well as laws decreed by the Kaiser.
4. For the purposes of this Section, "Kaiser" shall include the Steward and the Landsraad regnant.