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Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS), Bundeskanzleramt

Maintains the text in force

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.

Maintains the current text of the law as amended, so you can read a provision as it stands today rather than reconstructing it from amendments.

www.ris.bka.gv.at

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.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Regenerated on request, so the consolidated text is always current to the day. The underlying laws are amended several times a year: the Staatsbürgerschaftsgesetz lists amendments in 2025 and 2026, the Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz likewise.

Re-check triggers

an amendment to §§ 41 to 50a of the Niederlassungs- und Aufenthaltsgesetz, the settlement chapter · an amendment to § 10, § 11a or § 20 of the Staatsbürgerschaftsgesetz, which carry the residence periods and the renunciation rule · a new Fachkräfteverordnung or a change to Anlagen A to D of the Ausländerbeschäftigungsgesetz, which are the points tables · a change to § 9 of the Führerscheingesetz-Durchführungsverordnung, the list of states whose licences exchange without a test · the annual adjustment of the § 293 ASVG reference rates, which moves every income threshold in the NAG without the NAG changing

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