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Министерство на правосъдието

Applies the rule

The justice ministry, which runs the Citizenship Council and every naturalisation, release and restoration file, and which hosts a consolidated statute service at /home/normdoc/<id>. That service answered with a clean consolidated Закон за българското гражданство current to ДВ бр. 55 от 16 юни 2026 г., and it uses the same document identifiers as the commercial site lex.bg.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

justice.government.bg

Cannot be cited for

A curated subset, not a statute book: it carries the acts the ministry works with and answers HTTP 500 for everything else, including the Aliens Act and the Asylum Act. The site also serves an incomplete certificate chain, so a plain client rejects it. It is not an official consolidation and must not be cited for any instrument the Ministry of Justice does not administer.

Re-check every

45 days

Publication rhythm

The consolidated texts are updated within weeks of an amendment; the copy read on 2026-10-10 already carried a June 2026 change.

Re-check triggers

any amendment to the Закон за българското гражданство · a new ordinance under chapter five of that Act · a change to the Bulgarian-language ordinance made under article 12(1)(5)

Facts resting on this publisher · 6