Twenty-Five Ways Into the Compulsory Scheme, and Every One of Them Wants a Job, a Study Place or a Permanent Address
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Jamaica on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
154 exceptions recorded across 56 countries · none match Jamaica to Slovenia · Access to healthcare
Slovenia runs a single compulsory health insurance scheme and article 15(1) of ZZVZZ lists twenty-five categories of insured person. Reading it against a residence permit is the useful exercise, because the list is built around work and around stalno prebivališče - a registered permanent address - rather than around lawful residence. Employment in Slovenia insures you (point 1); so does self-employment as a sole or main occupation (point 5), being a company director in that capacity (point 6), and being a foreign national educating or training here (point 14). Point 20 is the residual: a person with a registered permanent address who meets none of the other points and pays the contribution themselves. Everyone in the scheme also pays a flat obvezni zdravstveni prispevek on top of the ordinary contributions - 35 EUR in the Act, adjusted each 1 March by the health minister and published in the gazette, and 39.36 EUR from 1 March 2026. Until an entitlement exists, the bridge is the insurance every residence permit requires: article 33(3) of ZTuj-2 asks for cover of at least emergency services, and a long-stay visa applicant needs travel insurance of at least 30,000 EUR. Article 7 of ZZVZZ puts urgent treatment of foreign nationals from states with no agreement on the state budget.
At a glance
- How you get in
- One of the twenty-five grounds in article 15(1) of ZZVZZ
Employment, self-employment, a directorship, farming, education here, a pension, or a registered permanent address with self-paid contributions.
- Flat health contribution
- 39.36 EUR a month from 1 March 2026
Set by the health minister under article 48(4) of ZZVZZ and published in the Uradni list on 27 February 2026; the Act itself states 35 EUR as the base.
- How the flat contribution moves
- Once a year, on 1 March
Article 48 of ZZVZZ adjusts it by the growth of the average gross wage in the previous year on the Statistical Office's figures.
- Insurance a permit holder must have
- Cover of at least emergency services in Slovenia
Article 33(3) of ZTuj-2, which asks for ustrezno zdravstveno zavarovanje rather than for the compulsory scheme.
- Long-stay visa insurance
- At least 30,000 EUR of cover
Article 23(2) of ZTuj-2, which sets the sum insured for travel health insurance.
- If you are in neither
- Urgent treatment is paid from the state budget
Article 7 of ZZVZZ covers urgent treatment of foreign nationals from states with which no agreement exists, and of people staying temporarily for whom payment could not be secured.
Requirements
- One of the twenty-five grounds in article 15(1) of ZZVZZ, to be in the compulsory scheme
- Payment of the flat obvezni zdravstveni prispevek on top of the ordinary contributions
- Until then, the private cover article 33(3) of ZTuj-2 requires of every permit holder
In detail
The gap the list leaves
Article 15(1) was read in full. None of its twenty-five points covers a third-country national who holds a temporary residence permit, is not employed or self-employed in Slovenia, is not in education here and does not have a registered permanent address: point 20, the residual one, is open to people s stalnim prebivališčem. A digital nomad working remotely for a foreign employer, and a person resident on Slovene descent under article 48 of ZTuj-2 who does not work, are both outside the grounds as the Act states them. That is why article 33(3) of ZTuj-2 makes private cover a condition of the permit rather than an alternative to it.
Country-level policy
Article 33(3) of ZTuj-2 is the provision that every other residence article points back to. It asks for a travel document whose validity runs at least three months beyond the intended stay; health insurance covering at least emergency services in Slovenia; and means of at least the basic amount of minimum income each month, or that subsistence be otherwise assured. For a permanent residence permit the travel document need only be valid. The same paragraph lists what may be shown as means - earnings, rights from employment or insurance excluding reimbursed expenses, income from property, income from capital and other sources, support from those legally obliged to maintain you, a scholarship, or funds in an account at a bank or savings bank in Slovenia or abroad - and that list is what makes the test satisfiable from abroad. The figure itself is not in ZTuj-2. Article 8(1) of ZSVarPre sets the basic amount of minimum income at 392.75 EUR and provides for it to be adjusted, and the government's decision of 24 February 2026 puts it at 507.43 EUR from 1 March 2026.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Jamaica
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Zavarovanci po tem zakonu so: 1. osebe, ki so v delovnem razmerju v Republiki Sloveniji; 2. osebe v delovnem razmerju pri delodajalcu s sedežem v Republiki Sloveniji, poslane na delo ali na strokovno izpopolnjevanje v tujino, če niso obvezno zavarovane v državi, v katero so bile poslane; 3. osebe, zaposlene pri tujih in mednarodnih organizacijah in ustanovah, tujih konzularnih in diplomatskih predstavništvih s sedežem v Republiki Sloveniji, če ni z mednarodno pogodbo drugače določeno; 4. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, zaposlene pri tujem delodajalcu, ki niso zavarovane pri tujem nosilcu zdravstvenega zavarovanja; 5. osebe, ki na območju Republike Slovenije samostojno opravljajo gospodarsko ali poklicno dejavnost kot edini ali glavni poklic; 6. družbeniki osebnih družb, družbeniki družb z omejeno odgovornostjo in ustanovitelji zavodov, če so družbeniki družb oziroma ustanovitelji zavodov poslovodne osebe, ki opravljajo poslovodno funkcijo kot edini ali glavni poklic; 7. kmetje, člani njihovih gospodarstev in druge osebe, ki v Republiki Sloveniji opravljajo kmetijsko dejavnost kot edini ali glavni poklic; 8. vrhunski športniki in vrhunski šahisti - člani telesnokulturnih in šahovskih organizacij v Republiki Sloveniji, ki niso zavarovani iz drugega naslova; 9. brezposelne osebe, ki prejemajo pri zavodu za zaposlovanje denarno nadomestilo; 10. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki prejemajo pokojnino po predpisih Republike Slovenije oziroma preživnino po predpisih o preživninskem varstvu kmetov; 11. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki prejemajo pokojnino od tujega nosilca pokojninskega zavarovanja, če z mednarodno pogodbo ni drugače določeno; 12. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, zavarovane pri tujem nosilcu zdravstvenega zavarovanja, ki med bivanjem v Republiki Sloveniji ne morejo uporabljati pravic iz tega naslova; 13. družinski člani osebe, zavarovane pri tujem nosilcu zdravstvenega zavarovanja, ki imajo stalno prebivališče v Republiki Sloveniji in niso zavarovani kot družinski člani pri tujem nosilcu zdravstvenega zavarovanja; 14. tujci, ki se izobražujejo ali izpopolnjujejo v Republiki Sloveniji, ki niso zavarovani iz drugega naslova; 15. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki so uživalci invalidnin po predpisih o vojaških invalidih in civilnih invalidih vojne, pravic po predpisih o varstvu vojnih veteranov, žrtev vojnega nasilja in udeležencev drugih vojn ter uživalci republiških priznavalnin, če niso zavarovane iz drugega naslova; 16. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki prejemajo nadomestilo po zakonu o družbenem varstvu duševno in telesno prizadetih odraslih oseb, če niso zavarovane iz drugega naslova; 17. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki prejemajo trajno denarno socialno pomoč in osebe, ki jim je Republika Slovenija priznala status begunca ali subsidiarno zaščito v skladu s predpisi o mednarodni zaščiti, če niso zavarovane iz drugega naslova; 18. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki so uživalci priznavalnin po predpisih o varstvu udeležencev vojn, če niso zavarovane iz drugega naslova; 19. vojaški obvezniki s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, ki so v civilni službi kot nadomestilu vojaškega roka; 19.a vojaški obvezniki s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji med služenjem vojaškega roka oziroma med usposabljanjem za rezervno sestavo policije; 20. osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v Republiki Sloveniji, če ne izpolnjujejo pogojev za zavarovanje po eni izmed točk iz tega odstavka in si same plačujejo prispevek;»The twenty-five grounds down to the residual one. Point 20 is the only route in for someone who is not working, studying or drawing a pension, and it asks for a registered permanent address. Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.
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The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.
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«Poleg prispevkov iz prejšnjega odstavka se Zavodu plačuje tudi obvezni zdravstveni prispevek v višini 35 eurov za posamezni koledarski mesec ne glede na število dni zavarovanja v koledarskem mesecu.»The flat contribution and its base figure, payable whole however few days of the month you were insured. Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.
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The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.
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«nujno zdravljenje oseb neznanega prebivališča, tujcev iz držav, s katerimi niso sklenjene mednarodne pogodbe, ter tujcev in državljanov Republike Slovenije s stalnim prebivališčem v tujini, ki začasno prebivajo v Republiki Sloveniji ali so na poti skozi državo in zanje ni bilo mogoče zagotoviti plačila zdravstvenih storitev, kakor tudi za druge osebe, ki po določbah tega zakona niso vključene v obvezno zdravstveno zavarovanje in niso zavarovane pri tujem nosilcu zdravstvenega zavarovanja;»What the state budget carries. It is the floor under anyone who is in no scheme at all. Quoted from the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation. The page carries the warning that such a text is only an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability; it is the only text of this Act kept current, because the last official consolidation is older than the amendments the Act now carries.
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The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.
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«Višina obveznega zdravstvenega prispevka od 1. marca 2026 znaša 39,36 eura.»The amount in force. The Act states 35 EUR and the minister publishes the adjusted figure each February.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«Tujec, ki želi prebivati v Republiki Sloveniji, mora imeti veljavno potno listino, katere veljavnost je najmanj tri mesece daljša od nameravanega prebivanja v Republiki Sloveniji, ustrezno zdravstveno zavarovanje, ki krije vsaj nujne zdravstvene storitve na območju Republike Slovenije, in zadostna sredstva za preživljanje v času prebivanja v državi oziroma mu mora biti preživljanje kako drugače zagotovljeno, mesečno najmanj v višini, kolikor znaša osnovni znesek minimalnega dohodka v Republiki Sloveniji.»The insurance and means conditions every residence permit shares, which is what a newcomer relies on before an entitlement exists.
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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«Zavarovalna vsota, za katero tujec sklene zavarovanje, ne sme biti nižja od 30.000 eurov.»About this source
The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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Practical notes
Read off ZZVZZ in the state legal information system's unofficial consolidation number 42, dated from 21 May 2025, off the health minister's published figure of 25 February 2026, and off articles 23 and 33 of ZTuj-2 as officially consolidated on 18 June 2025.
The last official consolidation of ZZVZZ is ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006. Twenty years of amendments, including the one that created the flat contribution, exist only in the unofficial consolidation.
The observation about who falls outside article 15(1) is read off the twenty-five points themselves. We did not read the Act on residence registration, which decides when a foreign national's registered address is a stalno prebivališče, and that is the question the point turns on.
- consolidatesZakon o zdravstvenem varstvu in zdravstvenem zavarovanju (ZZVZZ), neuradno prečiščeno besedilo št. 42
Pravno-informacijski sistem Republike Slovenije · consolidated to 2025-05-21
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The Slovene state's legal information system, run by the government's legislation service. It is the only place that keeps the current text of an Act when the National Assembly has not made a recent official consolidation, which is most Acts: it publishes a neuradno prečiščeno besedilo, numbered in sequence, each carrying the list of instruments it incorporates and, usually, a Datum začetka uporabe - the date from which that version applies. pisrs.si is an Angular single-page application, so the text appears only once JavaScript has run and it is readable by the extraction service and not by an ordinary request; the stable human address is https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id={ZAKOnnnn}, and https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?sop={YYYY-01-NNNN} resolves the same gazette identifier the Uradni list uses. Three file forms of each consolidation are served from https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/{id} as HTML, DOCX and PDF, and the identifiers for them are printed in the page itself. There is also a search API that answers an ordinary POST without the proof-of-work the site applies elsewhere: POST https://pisrs.si/api/filter/filter with a body of the shape {"nazivZbirke":["Register predpisov"],"besedilo":{"word1":"\"<title>\"","word1InTitle":true}} returns the ZAKO identifier, the SOP and the dates for every matching instrument, and nazivZbirke "Neuradna prečiščena besedila" lists every consolidation of it with its stNpb. From 1 March 2026 it is also where the Uradni list itself is published.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Its consolidated texts are explicitly not authoritative, and the site says so on every one of them**: "Opozorilo: Neuradno prečiščeno besedilo predpisa predstavlja zgolj informativni delovni pripomoček, glede katerega organ ne jamči odškodninsko ali kako drugače." - an unofficial consolidated text is merely an informative working aid for which the body accepts no liability. It is nevertheless the only current text of most Slovene Acts, because the official consolidations are years behind, so the right handling is to cite it and say what it is rather than to prefer a stale official text. This is the third time this corpus has met the problem, after Belgium's database frozen in 2002 and Czechia's informativní znění. **It cannot be cited for the text as enacted**: for that, go to the Uradni list item the consolidation lists. **It is not reliably readable.** The pages are rendered by the extraction service, and on 10 October 2026 two of them - ?id=ZAKO4697, the Income Tax Act, and ?id=ZAKO6655, the Act on employment of foreign nationals - came back as nothing but a loading spinner on four attempts across two hours, while larger pages on the same site rendered fully. A 223-byte reading from this publisher is a failed render, not a short document. The Income Tax Act was recovered from its consolidation PDF at /api/datoteke/integracije/358727643 instead. **The page interleaves furniture with the statute**: every article heading is followed by case-law labels ("Sodna praksa Vrhovnega sodišča") and bare CELEX numbers, and the markdown escapes list markers, so a quotation taken across an article boundary will contain text the legislator never wrote.
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- issuesVišina obveznega zdravstvenega prispevka
Uradni list Republike Slovenije
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The official gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, where an instrument gains force. Every Act, amending Act, government decree, ministerial rulebook and Constitutional Court decision is published here, and so is the uradno prečiščeno besedilo - the official consolidated text, which the National Assembly confirms by resolution under article 153 of its own rules of procedure and which then appears as a numbered item of a numbered issue. Two address shapes serve the same material and both answer an ordinary request without JavaScript. /glasilo-uradni-list-rs/vsebina/{YYYY}-01-{NNNN} is the item, where the number is the SOP identifier the state legal information system also uses, so an identifier found there resolves straight to the gazette text; a human-readable slug may follow the identifier and is optional. /_pdf/{YYYY}/Ur/u{YYYY}{NNN}.pdf is the whole issue as a PDF. From 1 March 2026 the gazette is published through pisrs.si instead, and single items from the new arrangement are served at https://pisrs.si/api/uradni-list/objava/u{YYYY}{NNNN}.pdf as one-item PDFs with a text layer. Readings for this corpus were taken directly rather than through the extraction service, because the item pages are ordinary HTML and the service adds nothing.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: **It issues; it does not maintain.** The gazette prints an instrument as it was published on the day and never updates it, so an amending Act and the Act it amends are two separate items and neither tells you what the law now says. The only current text of an Act is an official consolidation, and those are made when the National Assembly decides to make one: for the Aliens Act that is ZTuj-2-UPB15 of 24 June 2025 and current, but for the Citizenship Act it is ZDRS-UPB2 of 20 March 2007 and ten years behind ZDRS-E, for the Income Tax Act it is ZDoh-2-UPB7 of 28 February 2011, for the Health Care and Health Insurance Act ZZVZZ-UPB3 of 11 July 2006, and for the Act on employment of foreign nationals ZZSDT-UPB4 of 7 June 2021 with two amending Acts after it. **Never cite an official consolidation as the law in force without checking the amending Acts published since it**, and never treat the absence of a later consolidation as evidence that nothing changed. The site also prints, on every item page, that what it shows is archival under article 33 of the Act on the Official Gazette and that issues published after 28 February 2026 are on PISRS: "Prikazana vsebina je v skladu s 33. členom ZoUL arhivska. Izdaje uradnega lista, izdane po 28.2.2026, so dostopne na PISRS". It cannot be cited for anything published after that date.
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