TFL Vsebine / Pravni letopis

Za konec zakonodajnega postopka v širšem pomenu besede sta potrebni še razglasitev in objava zakona. S tem postane zakon obstoječ, eksistenten. Slovenska ustava določa, da morajo biti zakoni objavljeni, preden začnejo veljati. Začetek veljavnosti je postavljen na petnajsti dan po objavi, če sam zakon ne določa drugače. Tedaj zakon dobi obvezno pravno moč. Ta trenutek je ustavna ureditev v Sloveniji pred drugo svetovno vojno označila za začetek obvezne moči, po drugi svetovni vojni pa za začetek veljavnosti. Zakonodajna praksa v zadnjem obdobju je uvedla še oznako začetek uporabe.

To finalise the legislation procedure, the law has to be promulgated and published to come into existence. According to the provisions provided by the Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia, laws have to be published before they enter into force. The beginning of validity is set on the fifteenth day after the publication, unless the law itself states differently. Only at that point the law gets legal force and effect. In the period before Second World War, this moment was described as the “beginning of compulsory power” (the law comes into force), after 1945 the term changed to “beginning of validity”. Legislative practice in the recent period introduced yet another term – “the beginning of the application of the law”.

The Binding Power of Law Through Three Periods of Recent Slovenian Legal History