The Directorate of Legislation, Gazette, Publications and Printing, shall exercise all powers reasonably necessary to fulfil the following functions of the Ministry—

• Drafting Government legislation including subsidiary legislation, as requested by National and the State legislatures and executive branches;
• Overseeing the progress of legislation and provision of legal opinions thereon;
• Printing and publishing the South Sudan Gazette and any other necessary government publications;
• Translating legislation and any other legal documents from English to other languages, as necessary;
• Publishing written laws;
• Reviewing, refining and improving the legislative drafting process in South Sudan;
• Conducting research and proposing legal reforms; and
• Performing any other duty or function that may be assigned to it, or which is reasonably related to the forgoing activities.