Country-wide policy
The State Publishes Editions of Its Statutes That Say on Their Own First Page They Are Not Consolidations
The Office of the Law Commissioner prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes and the Republic serves them as PDFs from gov.cy. The edition of the Aliens and Immigration Law, Cap. 105, is dated August 2024 and carries the amendments down to Law 111(I) of 2024. Its own legal notice then withdraws most of what a reader would take it to be: the edition does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term, because the sections were not renumbered and it was never approved by the House of Representatives; it is published for practical convenience and does not replace the text of the laws it brings together; and only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette are authentic. The English edition of the free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 says the same thing in English, and adds that it is a translation. What fills the gap is a commercial service: CyLaw, run by the Cyprus Bar Association, publishes consolidated texts that are materially more current than the state's own - its Income Tax Law carries the rate bands that apply from tax year 2026, where the Tax Department's own PDF of the same Act still prints the bands of 2008. The Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its readers to CyLaw for the consolidated text of its own founding Act rather than to anything the state publishes.
Topics it changes
- Visiting as a tourist
- Residency on passive income
- Residency as a retiree
- Residency through work
- Residency through investment
- Residency as a student
- Residency through marriage
- Residency through ancestry
- Becoming a citizen
- When you become a tax resident
- Access to healthcare
- Opening a bank account
- Driving and licence exchange
What it requires
- Read the Office of the Law Commissioner edition for the Aliens and Immigration Law and its Regulations, and treat its date as a cut-off rather than as the law today
- Expect the Bar Association's consolidation to be more current than the state's own, and say which one a figure came from
- Treat only the printed Official Gazette as authentic, which is what every one of these editions says about itself
At a glance
- What the state publishes
- Editions by the Office of the Law Commissioner, which disclaim being consolidations
The legal notice at page iii of the Cap. 105 edition of August 2024.
- Cut-off of the Aliens and Immigration Law edition
- August 2024, last amending Act 111(I) of 2024
Stated on the title page and in the legal notice of the edition served from gov.cy.
- Cut-off of the Regulations edition
- December 2017, last regulation of 1 February 2013
Stated on the title page of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations edition served from gov.cy.
- What is authentic
- Only the text published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic
Said in Greek in the Cap. 105 edition and in English in the Law 7(I)/2007 edition.
- Where the current text actually lives
- CyLaw, published by the Cyprus Bar Association, which is not a government publisher
The Health Insurance Organisation's own legislation page offers the Acts as enacted and sends readers to cylaw.org for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws of 2001 to 2022.
What the law says
«Εν τούτοις η παρούσα έκδοση δεν συνιστά ενοποίηση με την πραγματική έννοια του όρου, λόγω του ότι δεν έγινε αναρίθμηση άρθρων και δεν έτυχε έγκρισης από την Βουλή των Αντιπροσώπων. Εκδίδεται για λόγους πρακτικής διευκόλυνσης χωρίς να αντικαθιστά το κείμενο των ενοποιούμενων Νόμων. Αυθεντικά είναι μόνο τα κείμενα της νομοθεσίας που δημοσιεύονται στην έντυπη Επίσημη Εφημερίδα της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας.»Our translation - not official
However, this edition does not constitute a consolidation in the true sense of the term, because the sections were not renumbered and it did not receive the approval of the House of Representatives. It is issued for reasons of practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated. Only the texts of legislation published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic of Cyprus are authentic.
The disclaimer is the publisher's own, on page iii, directly under the list of the thirty-six amending Acts the edition brings together.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
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«Η παρούσα έκδοση του Γραφείου Επιτρόπου Νομοθεσίας, αποτελεί ενοποίηση του περί Αλλοδαπών και Μεταναστεύσεως Νόμου (Κεφ.105), με τις μεταγενέστερες τροποποιήσεις αυτού»Our translation - not official
This edition of the Office of the Law Commissioner is a consolidation of the Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105), with its subsequent amendments
Who publishes it, in the publisher's own words.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«The publication at hand by the Office of the Law Commissioner is an English translation and consolidation of Law 7(1) of 2007, as amended by Laws 181(1) of 2011, 8(0) of 2013, 67(1) of 2013, 77(1) of 2015, 28 (I) of 2017, 193(1) of 2020 and 96(1) of 2023. However useful the English translation of the Law is in practice, it does not replace the original text of the Law since only the text published in the Official Gazette of the Republic is authentic.»The same disclaimer in English, with the added point that the text is a translation. The amending Acts are printed in this reading as 7(1), 181(1), 8(0) and so on: the PDF's text layer reads the Roman numeral I as a digit, which is a fact about the publisher's own scan rather than about the citation.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
Practical notes
Every Greek quotation of Cap. 105 and of its Regulations on this site is taken from the Office of the Law Commissioner editions served from gov.cy, which are set in two columns with the amending Act printed in the margin. A sentence that runs past a marginal note cannot be quoted whole, which is why some quotations here stop short of the end of a subsection.
The Tax Department publishes its own PDF of the Income Tax Law and that edition still prints the rate bands introduced in 2008. The Bar Association's consolidation of the same Act prints a further paragraph of the Second Schedule applying from tax year 2026. The amending Act itself was not read for this record.