Bundesgesetzblatt authentisch ab 2004, Bundeskanzleramt
Issues the instrumentThe 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.
An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.
www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/BgblAuthCannot 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.
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