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Gaceta Oficial Digital de la República de Panamá

Issues the instrument

Panama's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here and carries its gazette number as part of its identity, which is how the Friendly Nations list, the migration decree-law and every decree amending them are identified.

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 publishes acts as enacted and never republishes the amended text, so it cannot be cited for consolidated law - and on Panama that bites hard: Decreto Ejecutivo 26 de 2009 alone substituted fifty-six articles of the 2008 regulation, and an article number inside an amending decree is an instruction to amend rather than the article of the resulting regulation. Worse, some issues are page images with no text layer: Gaceta 29335 of 2021 extracts only its contents page, which is why the current Friendly Nations property threshold cannot be stated. Anything quoted from a gazette must be checked for recognition damage first and declared as ocr where it is a reading of a picture.

Re-check every

30 days

Publication rhythm

Every business day. Migration decrees appear irregularly and without notice.

Re-check triggers

any reported migration, tax or banking decree · a change of Minister of Public Security · any news about the Friendly Nations list

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