Practice question · Put in order
Order the life cycle of a statute.
- Publication in the Official Gazette
- Parliament approves the text
- Vacatio legis runs
- Sanction and promulgation
- Entry into force, the norm binds
Hints
- Approval alone binds nobody, something must be made public first.
- The waiting period runs after publication, not before it.
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- Parliament approves the text
- Sanction and promulgation
- Publication in the Official Gazette
- Vacatio legis runs
- Entry into force, the norm binds
Why
Approval → promulgation → publication → vacatio → force. Each arrow is a legal threshold, not a formality: skip publication and the "law" binds no one.
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