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Retsinformation, Civilstyrelsen

Maintains the text in force

The Danish state's common legal information system, run by Civilstyrelsen under the Ministry of Justice. It serves every Act, consolidated Act, ministerial regulation, circular and guidance document at a stable ELI address of the form https://www.retsinformation.dk/{pubMedia}/{year}/{number}, where pubMedia is lta for Lovtidende A, retsinfo for documents published on the service itself and mt for Ministerialtidende. Each document is offered in three representations off that address: the bare address, which is a JavaScript shell; /pdf, which is the publisher's own typeset PDF with a real text layer; and /dan/xml, which is the LexDania source. A consolidated Act prints on its first page the consolidation it supersedes, every amending Act folded into it, and a paragraph-by-paragraph list of the amendments it does NOT incorporate because the minister has not yet set their commencement date. The XML carries a metadata block with the accession number, the signature date, a Status field reading Valid or Historic, and a Change block naming each amending instrument.

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.retsinformation.dk

Cannot be cited for

The address itself serves a 4.8 KB React shell and no text; a reading taken from it is page furniture, not the law. The XML representation of older documents can be metadata only: Danmarks Riges Grundlov, the Constitution that Danish naturalisation rests on, has a record with a title and a status and no text at all, and its /pdf address answers 404. The free-text parameter of the public search API is ignored, so the service can be filtered by document type and ministry but not searched by word from outside the browser. A document marked Historic may still be operative: the 2014 regulation listing the countries whose driving licences exchange without a test is marked Historic because the 2016 regulation repealed it, and the 2016 regulation's own transitional provision keeps its list in force. The StartDate and EndDate fields in the XML are record-keeping dates and are not the validity period of the instrument - they must not be read as a commencement or a repeal. The service publishes what has been enacted and nothing about how an agency applies it: the Positive List, the unemployment level that opens one of the salary routes, the driving-licence exchange list and the annually adjusted amounts are all published elsewhere by the administering body.

Re-check every

45 days

Publication rhythm

Published continuously as Lovtidende appears. The Aliens Act was amended by six Acts in the twelve months after its last consolidation of 25 September 2025.

Re-check triggers

a new lovbekendtgørelse of udlændingeloven, which currently stands at nr. 1183 af 25. september 2025 · the commencement on 1 January 2027 of the collective-agreement salary route added to udlændingeloven § 9 a, stk. 2, nr. 15 by lov nr. 765 af 8. september 2026, and the publication of the country list it depends on · a new or amending cirkulæreskrivelse om naturalisation, the conditions for Danish naturalisation being in that circular rather than in indfødsretsloven · a new kørekortbekendtgørelse, or any amendment to bekendtgørelse nr. 203 af 4. marts 2016 touching the exchange of foreign driving licences · a new lovbekendtgørelse of kildeskatteloven, or an amendment to §§ 48 E-F on the researcher and key-employee flat rate · an amendment to sundhedsloven § 7, which ties the right to health care to registration in the Folkeregister

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