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Legilux, Journal officiel du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

Maintains the text in force

Luxembourg's official legal publisher, run by the Service central de législation. It issues the Journal officiel and, separately, textes coordonnés. Everything is addressed by ELI, and the address that matters is on the data host rather than the site: legilux.public.lu is an Angular single-page application that answers every address with the same 2,118-byte shell, while data.legilux.public.lu serves the documents. The live forms are data.legilux.public.lu/eli/<type>/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/<id>/jo/fr/{html,pdf} for an act as published and .../consolide/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/{html,pdf} for a consolidation, where the date must be an exact consolidation date - any other date answers 404. Codes are addressed differently again, as /eli/etat/leg/code/<name>/<YYYYMMDD>/fr/pdf. The same host answers an Accept: application/rdf+xml request for any ELI with the record's metadata, and there is a SPARQL endpoint at data.legilux.public.lu/sparqlendpoint which is how a consolidation date is found rather than guessed: ?v jolux:isMemberOf <work ELI> ; jolux:dateApplicability ?d returns every consolidation of an act.

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.

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Cannot be cited for

The consolidations are documentary. The Journal officiel as published is what has legal force, and the Code de la sécurité sociale prints that on its own notes page. The two manifestations of one consolidation are not the same document: the HTML carries the change markers and the amending-act headings - 'Art. 78. (L du 21 avril 2023)' - and breaks sentences with marker digits like '145 > quinze heures 145 <', while the PDF prints clean article text and drops both the markers and the headings. A quotation has to be taken from whichever one the sentence survives in. The consolidations also carry defects of their own: article 33 of the Act of 29 August 2008 is printed twice over in both manifestations, once as the original single sentence and once again as paragraph (1) with the same words. It cannot be cited for the income tax Act at all - it holds consolidation metadata for the Act of 4 December 1967 up to 1 February 2026 but serves no document for any consolidation after 2011, so the only current coordinated text of it is the tax administration's. Code recueils are PDF-only, and two of them set the publisher's own apparatus inside the text column: the Code de la sécurité sociale prints source references like 'L. 27.7.92' mid-sentence, and the Code de la route prints case-law annotations frozen at 2 September 2013 alongside articles consolidated to 2026. The Legilux record of the loi d'adaptation fiscale of 16 October 1934 tags its expression as French while the text it serves is German from beginning to end.

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60 days

Publication rhythm

The Journal officiel publishes continuously. A consolidation appears within weeks of an amendment taking effect, and its applicability date is in its own address. The immigration Act was consolidated at least four times between July 2024 and June 2026.

Re-check triggers

a new consolidation of the loi du 29 août 2008 appearing under a later /consolide/ date · an amendment to article 78 of the loi du 29 août 2008, which carries the permitted sources of income for the private-reasons permit · a new consolidation of the loi du 8 mars 2017, which would show whether the article 89 ancestor deadline has been moved past 31 December 2025 · an amendment to article 84 of the arrêté grand-ducal du 23 novembre 1955 on the transcription of foreign driving licences · a replacement of the règlement grand-ducal du 5 septembre 2008, whose resources benchmarks still name a law repealed in 2018

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