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Magyar Kozlony, Magyar Kozlony Lap- es Konyvkiado Kft.

Issues the instrument

The official journal of Hungary, and the only authentic text of Hungarian legislation. Section 25(1) of Act CXXX of 2010 provides that it is issued by publication as an electronic document on the government portal and that its text shall be regarded as authentic; section 25/A(1) has the responsible editor sign each issue with a qualified electronic signature and a time stamp, and section 25/A(4) forbids a published issue from being removed from the portal. Section 26(1) requires every statute except a local government decree to be promulgated in it. An issue is a single PDF containing everything promulgated that day: Magyar Kozlony 2023. evi 185. szam of 21 December 2023 runs to 1.7 million characters and carries the twelfth amendment of the Fundamental Law, Act XC of 2023 on the entry and residence of third-country nationals across pages 10447 to 10578, and twenty-odd other Acts. Issues are downloaded from magyarkozlony.hu through an opaque per-document path ending in /letoltes rather than by a readable number, so the address has to be found from the issue listing and cannot be constructed.

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

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Cannot be cited for

**It is the text as enacted and never the text in force.** Section 25(2) of Act CXXX of 2010 forbids a consolidated text from being published here at all, so an issue is evidence of what a provision said on the day it was promulgated and of nothing after that. The guest investor programme is the case that shows why both publishers are needed: this journal carries the 500,000 EUR residential property option and the two-year visa that the Parliament passed, and both were replaced within a year. **Read it for repeals, commencement rules and original wording; read the National Legislation Database for what the law says today.** It is also an awkward document to quote from: a single issue is a very long PDF of many unrelated Acts, so a short quotation is likely to occur in more than one of them, and the page furniture of the running head interrupts sentences at every page break. It cannot be cited for anything not promulgated in it - local government decrees go elsewhere under section 26(1), and ministerial communications of the kind the 2023 immigration Act relies on for the annual permit number and the excluded occupations are not statutes at all.

Re-check every

180 days

Publication rhythm

Issued on days when something is promulgated, which in practice is most working days and heavily at the end of a parliamentary session: issue 185 of 2023 was published on Thursday 21 December 2023 and carried more than twenty Acts at once. An issue, once published, never changes.

Re-check triggers

an issue promulgating an amendment to Act XC of 2023, Act I of 2007 or Act LV of 1993, where the original wording or the commencement rule matters · an issue promulgating a government decree under section 30(1)(c) of Act XC of 2023 naming the nationalities eligible for the guest worker permit and the National Card · a correction published under section 28 of Act CXXX of 2010, which is the only mechanism by which the words of an already promulgated statute can change

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