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Consultoría Jurídica del Poder Ejecutivo

Issues the instrument

The legal office of the Dominican presidency, and the publisher of the Gaceta Oficial - its Consultor Jurídico signs the gazette as administrative director and certifies that a publication is official, which is the clearest statement in Dominican practice of what makes a text authentic. It also maintains the public register of laws and decrees, searchable at /api/consultas/search and serving each instrument at /api/document/<DocId> as the gazette pages it appeared in. The register was current to Gaceta 11263 of September 2026 when read.

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

www.consultoria.gov.do

Cannot be cited for

It cannot be cited for consolidated law: the gazette prints instruments as enacted and as amending, never the resulting text, and no Dominican body publishes a consolidated statute book. Worse, much of the archive is unquotable. Issues before roughly 2012 are page images whose recognition turns "año" into "aiio" and "los" into "10s"; some born-digital files from 2010 and 2011 - including Decreto 631-11 and the 2010 Constitution - carry a broken font encoding that renders "República" as "Repflblica". Anything from those years must be read from a ministry or agency transcription and declared as such. Its own collection of Dominican constitutions is linked from its consultation page and every file 404s.

Re-check every

30 days

Publication rhythm

Every business day. Laws and decrees appear in numbered gazette issues without notice.

Re-check triggers

any reported migration, tax, customs or nationality law · a tax reform bill reaching the Congreso Nacional · any constitutional reform · a change of Consultor Jurídico del Poder Ejecutivo

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