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Asamblea Nacional de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Issues the instrument

Venezuela's legislature, and the only reachable index of Venezuelan law. Its database of laws in force gives, for each instrument, the Gaceta Oficial number and date, the vacatio legis, what it repealed, a condition flag reading 'Vigencia Total', and a PDF of the gazette page. It carries decretos constituyentes and decretos-leyes as well as its own Acts, so the 2015 income tax law, the 2020 Tax Code and the 2020 customs law are all here. With the Imprenta Nacional's gazette service unreachable, this is the nearest thing to the publisher of record that can be read.

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

www.asambleanacional.gob.ve

Cannot be cited for

Its PDFs are scans with no text layer - OmniPage output, jbig2 images, pdftotext returns nothing - so anything quoted from them is our own recognition and must carry extractMethod 'ocr'. The recognition reads the gazette's two columns out of order, drops article headings and whole numerals, and on at least one law invents text outright: the Ley Orgánica de Aduanas comes back with Chinese characters spliced into Spanish clauses. A negative claim must never rest on a reading taken from here. It must not be cited for the law as consolidated either: each PDF is one gazette issue, and where that issue reprints a single text the reprint date is the date of the last amendment, not a sweep. There is no working site search and no working pagination - every listing URL with a query string returns an empty response to both Firecrawl and a direct fetch - so an instrument can only be found by guessing its slug, and failing to find one here is not evidence that it does not exist.

Re-check every

180 days

Publication rhythm

Laws are added as they are sanctioned; the database itself is revised rarely and several entries carry timestamps from 2021 and 2022.

Re-check triggers

a reform of the Ley de Impuesto sobre la Renta or of the Código Orgánico Tributario · any regulation made under the Ley de Extranjería y Migración · a reform of the Ley de Nacionalidad y Ciudadanía · a reform of the Ley Orgánica de Aduanas

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