Gesetze im Internet, Bundesministerium der Justiz und Bundesamt für Justiz
Maintains the text in forceGermany's consolidated federal statute book, served as plain HTML with the whole Act on one page at a stable address built from its Bundesgesetzblatt number. Each Act carries a footer stating the amendment it is current to.
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.gesetze-im-internet.deCannot be cited for
The portal states that the texts are not official and that the Bundesgesetzblatt governs. It is served as ISO-8859-1 with the charset in a meta tag, so a fetch assuming UTF-8 destroys every umlaut. The English translations published alongside are explicitly non-binding and are never quoted here.
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Publication rhythm
Updated as amending Acts come into force.
Re-check triggers
an amendment to the Aufenthaltsgesetz · an amendment to the Staatsangehörigkeitsgesetz · a change to the residence or habitual abode rules in the Abgabenordnung
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