A Yearly Ordinance Rations Five Kinds of Permit, and the One for 2025 Arrived Thirteen Days Before the Year Ended

Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.

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Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.

We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

Austria's consolidated federal law, served from ris.bka.gv.at at two stable address forms. A whole law is GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=<n>, and a single provision is NormDokument.wxe with the same Gesetzesnummer plus &Paragraf=<n>. The whole-law page prints its own date on its face as "Fassung vom <dd.mm.yyyy>", generated on request, so the consolidation date is whatever day you read it; the single-provision page says "tagesaktuelle Fassung" instead and adds the list of every earlier version of that provision with the amending BGBl number. Each law's front matter lists every amending act in order. There is a companion OGD search interface at data.bka.gv.at/ris/api/v2.6/Bundesrecht which returns the Gesetzesnummer for a title and is how an instrument is located rather than guessed at.

Standing: Maintains the text in force

Cannot be cited for: The consolidations are unofficial: the authentic text is the one published in the Bundesgesetzblatt, and for that the BgblAuth collection is the source, not this one. Every provision is rendered twice on the same page - once with its abbreviations ("§ 53 Abs. 2 Z 5") and once with them spelled out ("Paragraph 53, Absatz 2, Ziffer 5,") - which is an accessibility rendering and not a drafting feature, so a quotation that spans the join will contain the same sentence twice and a quotation must be taken from one rendering. Numbered list items carry the same doubling ("- 1. Ziffer eins"), so a quotation crossing an item boundary carries that furniture with it. It may not be cited for Land law at all: the nine Laender publish separately, and naturalisation fees and much of what a resident actually meets are Land matters. It carries no case law; that is a different RIS application (Judikatur) not read here. A Verordnung is only here if it is in force today - a Gesetzesnummer whose ordinance has expired answers GeltendeFassung with a 404, which looks exactly like an address that never existed.

We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.

We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source

The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.

We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source

The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.

We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source

The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.

We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source

The authentic electronic Bundesgesetzblatt, published on the same host as the consolidated collection but a different application. A document is at /Dokumente/BgblAuth/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>/BGBLA_<year>_<part>_<number>.pdf, with an .html form beside it; the PDF carries the Bundeskanzleramt's electronic seal and the promulgation date on its first page. The collection is searchable by title or full text at Ergebnis.wxe?Abfrage=BgblAuth, and the result list prints BGBl number, promulgation date and short title in one table - which makes it the right place to establish that an instrument of a given name has or has not been promulgated.

Standing: Issues the instrument

Cannot be cited for: It starts in 2004. Anything older is in the scanned Bundesgesetzblatt collection, which is a different application and was not read. It is the authentic text as promulgated and carries no amendments: an ordinance read here says what it said on the day it was signed, and whether it is still in force is a question for the consolidated collection. It may not be cited for the current text of anything amended since. A search over it bounds a claim about what has been promulgated and nothing more: an absence in the result list is an absence in that collection from 2004 onwards, not in Austrian law. The PDFs use German legal abbreviations - a bare "Z" for Ziffer - which the project's fragmentation heuristic reads as broken text; the readings are intact and the one taken for Austria is cleared in reading-reviews.json.

We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source