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Riigi Teataja, Justiits- ja Digiministeerium

Maintains the text in force

Estonia's state gazette, published by the Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs, and unusual in this corpus because its consolidated texts are official by statute rather than by convention. Section 1(1) of the Riigi Teataja seadus makes it the official online publication of the Republic of Estonia; section 2(1) says acts are published in it as official original texts; and section 3(1) says that alongside the original text it publishes the official consolidated texts - ametlikud terviktekstid - of Acts, presidential decrees, government, ministerial and Bank of Estonia regulations, Riigikogu resolutions, government orders and local authority regulations. Section 3(2) requires the publisher to add validity-period data to each consolidated text, which is why every act page here carries a line of the form 'Kehtiv sõnastus 30.09.2026 - 30.12.2026': the wording in force, with the day it took effect and the day a later redaktsioon replaces it. That makes the cut-off a published fact rather than an inference, and it also makes future law visible in advance, because a redaktsioon that starts in 2027 already exists at its own address. Each act is addressed as /akt/<id>, where the id is the publication date and sequence number of the redaktsioon, so a cited address is pinned to one wording rather than redirecting to whatever is current. The site also runs an abbreviation index at /api/v1/akt/lyhendid mapping each statute's Estonian abbreviation to its current redaktsioon id, and a full-text search at /api/v1/otsing/tervik-tekst, both of which were used to find instruments for this country.

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.riigiteataja.ee

Cannot be cited for

The English translations are not the instrument and must never be quoted as one. Section 6 of the Riigi Teataja seadus provides only that the Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs arranges translation 'to the extent determined by the minister responsible for the area', that translations are made available in Riigi Teataja, and that a sworn translator is competent to translate an Act into a foreign language; nowhere does the Act call a translation official, which is the contrast with sections 2(1) and 3(1), where it does use that word of the Estonian texts. Translations carry their own cut-offs and lag the Estonian redaktsioon. Two further traps. First, a subdivision of an Act can outlive the ground that created it: sections 198 to 200 of the Välismaalaste seadus still describe a residence permit for sufficient legal income, with no repeal marker and with amendments dated 2013 and 2017, although section 309-2(1) stopped the permit being granted on 1 July 2012 - so a repealed ground shows only as a bracketed note against a point number in the list of grounds, eleven chapters away from the sections that describe it. Second, the site is an Angular single-page application behind Cloudflare: a plain fetch returns a 62 kB shell and no law at all, so a reading must be taken through a renderer. It cannot be cited for anything that is not published in Riigi Teataja - agency practice, application procedures, money figures the agency publishes on its own pages - and it is not a source for what any instrument means.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Published continuously as acts are signed; the consolidated text of a statute is regenerated whenever an amendment enters into force, and the current wording states the day it stops being current. Every Estonian statute read for this country carries an end date within three to fifteen months of the reading, so a date-driven sweep is cheap and precise here.

Re-check triggers

30 December 2026, when the current wording of the Välismaalaste seadus, the Liiklusseadus, the Tulumaksuseadus, the Käibemaksuseadus, the Võlaõigusseadus and the Minister of the Interior's regulation of 12 January 2017 no 7 all expire · the autumn Government regulation setting the immigration quota for the following year, made under section 114(1) of the Välismaalaste seadus · the annual state budget act, which fixes the subsistence limit every residence-permit income threshold is a multiple of · any amendment to the Välismaalaste seadus or the Kodakondsuse seadus · 18 January 2033, when Union driving licences valid for more than fifteen years must have been exchanged under section 99(9) of the Liiklusseadus · a change of government

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