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Slov-lex, Ministerstvo spravodlivosti Slovenskej republiky

Maintains the text in force

The Slovak state's own legal information system, run by the Ministry of Justice, which publishes the Zbierka zákonov Slovenskej republiky and keeps every instrument as a series of point-in-time versions. Three addresses serve the same corpus and they behave differently. www.slov-lex.sk is the live portal: a legacy address such as /pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/ answers HTTP 301 to redir.slov-lex.sk and again to /ezbierky/pravne-predpisy/SK/ZZ/2011/404/, which is an application page. static.slov-lex.sk is a complete static mirror at predictable addresses and is the one to read: /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ is the version history, /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.html is the version in force from that date, and /static/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/{YYYYMMDD}.print.html is the same text without the navigation. The third is the PDF, at /pdf/SK/ZZ/{year}/{number}/ZZ_{year}_{number}_{YYYYMMDD}.pdf, and for an instrument of any age it is the one with legal force: each version's header prints either Obsah dokumentu je právne záväzný or, for older instruments, Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter, and the HTML page says in terms that its content is informative and that the legally binding content is in the PDF. Version dates are the date the version took effect, so finding the text in force on a given day means reading the history page rather than guessing an address.

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.

static.slov-lex.sk

Cannot be cited for

**The HTML and the PDF are two manifestations of one document and only one of them can be quoted at length.** The static HTML is captured with the portal's own copy-to-clipboard icons between every block, which survive extraction as image markdown; a quotation that crosses a paragraph boundary therefore carries exclamation marks the publisher never wrote, and in the residence Act that is every lettered list. The PDF has no such furniture and extracts as clean single-column text, but it breaks a sentence wherever a footnote block or a running header falls: section 20(2) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z., section 27(1) of the same Act and section 7(3) of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. are each cut in half by a footnote, and section 23a(1)(e) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. is cut by a page break with the forty-hour limit on one page and the eighty-hour limit on the next. A quotation has to be taken from whichever side of the break its sentence survives on and cut short rather than stitched. **The informative-versus-binding line is not where its age suggests.** The PDF of Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z. prints Obsah tohto dokumentu má informatívny charakter on its own first page, so for that instrument neither manifestation is the promulgated text. It cannot be cited for anything the Collection does not carry: the register of occupations with a labour shortage by region, kept under section 12(ad) of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z. by the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family; the annexes to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which the portal serves as separate downloads rather than as part of the text; how much of that regulation's ceiling of 3,000 national visas remains at any moment, which nothing requires anyone to publish; the business plan template the Ministry of Economy publishes under section 32(5)(a) of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z.; and the practice of the Office for Slovaks Living Abroad in assessing national consciousness under Act No. 474/2005 Z. z. It is also not the place to read a figure that an opatrenie moves: Act No. 601/2003 Z. z. still prints 178.92 EUR in its own section 2(a), and the amount in force is in the ministerial measure, which is a separate instrument with its own address.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

A new version of an instrument appears on the day an amendment takes effect, and the address is that date. Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. was versioned 2025-09-01, 2026-05-15, 2026-06-12, 2026-07-15 and 2026-10-01 inside thirteen months; Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. stood still from 2022-04-01 to 2026-06-11 and then moved twice in five weeks.

Re-check triggers

a version of Act No. 404/2011 Z. z. appearing under a date later than 2026-10-01, in particular one touching sections 15, 21 to 34, 43 to 52, 63 to 67, 111 or 123 · a version of Act No. 40/1993 Z. z. appearing under a date later than 2026-07-15, in particular one touching section 7 or section 9 · an opatrenie of the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family on the subsistence minimum taking effect on 1 July of any year, which moves every multiple in the residence Act at once · an amendment to Vyhláška No. 499/2011 Z. z., which has not been amended since it took effect on 1 January 2012 and still fixes the border funds at 56 EUR a day · an amendment to section 21b of Act No. 5/2004 Z. z., which carries the 45 per cent ceiling on an employer's third-country staff and the 15 and 20 working day periods · an amendment to Government Regulation No. 521/2021 Z. z., which carries the ceiling of 3,000 national visas and the lists in its annexes · a version of Act No. 145/1995 Z. z. after 2026-09-01 touching items 20, 24, 63, 242 or 247, which carry every fee in these records · an amendment to Vyhláška No. 42/2016 Z. z., which has not moved since 2016 and caps the basic payment account at three euros a month

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