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Justel, Service public fédéral Justice (Moniteur belge)

Maintains the text in force

Belgium's consolidated federal legislation, served from the Moniteur belge site at two stable address forms: an ELI of the shape /eli/<type>/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<numac>/justel, and the older /cgi_loi/change_lg.pl query carrying the dossier number. Each record prints the date the consolidation is updated to, lists its archived versions, and marks in the body which amending Act inserted which words, with the Act identified in footnotes under the article.

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.ejustice.just.fgov.be

Cannot be cited for

The site is behind a web application firewall. A direct request from this project is answered with a JavaScript challenge page and a support ID, never the document, and the Bright Data proxy is refused at the CONNECT stage; only the extraction service returns text, and even then it refused two records outright - the French text of the Wetboek van economisch recht and the Code des impôts sur les revenus by its dossier number - while serving the Dutch and ELI forms of the same instruments. It may not be cited for the income tax code at all: the record for the Code des impôts sur les revenus 1992 states that updating was suspended in 2002, shows the text as at 9 April 2010, and carries no text of the Code. Dutch and French are both authentic and a Justel record serves one of them; a quotation from one says nothing about the wording of the other. Several instruments are printed as parallel regional versions of the same article - federal, Flemish, Walloon, Brussels, German-speaking Community - so an article number alone does not identify a text. The consolidations are unofficial: the Moniteur belge as published governs. Nothing regional is here: decrees and ordinances of the Regions and Communities, which decide work authorisations and self-employment, are published elsewhere.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Consolidated as amending Acts come into force; each record prints the date it is updated to. The immigration Act is amended several times a year.

Re-check triggers

an amendment to the Loi du 15 décembre 1980 on the grounds of residence or on the single permit · an amendment to article 12bis or article 19 of the Code de la nationalité belge · a regional decree or ordinance replacing the professional card regime · the Code des impôts sur les revenus 1992 reappearing in consolidated form

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