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Imprenta Nacional de Costa Rica - Diario Oficial La Gaceta

Issues the instrument

The state printing house, which publishes La Gaceta and its Alcances. A Costa Rican instrument is law from the day it appears here, and for this project it turned out to be the only route to Costa Rican primary text that the fetcher can actually store.

An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.

www.imprentanacional.go.cr

Cannot be cited for

Every issue is the text as enacted on that date, and nothing in it says it has since been superseded - the same trap as citing a decree's original text when a consolidated one exists, in another form. An issue also never changes, so re-reading one is pointless; what changes is that a later issue carries an amendment. And an issue is a whole-day compilation of hundreds of unrelated acts, so a citation to the issue alone identifies nothing: it must name the act and the article.

Re-check every

90 days

Publication rhythm

Every working day. A past issue is immutable, so the cadence below is a sweep for new issues carrying amendments rather than a re-read of anything already held.

Re-check triggers

a reform to Ley 8764 or to the Reglamento de Extranjería · a new Directriz General de Visas · an instrument extending or closing the Ley 9996 benefit window

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