Directorate of Legislation, Gazette, Publication and Printing

The Directorate of Legislation, Gazette, Publication and Printing was established as Directorate under the Ministry of Legal Affairs and Constitutional Development Organization Act. The Directorate is charged with the mandate to draft all Government legislation and Subsidiary Legislation.

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

(a) drafting Government legislation including subsidiary legislation, as requested by GoSS and the State legislatures and executive branches;

(b) overseeing the progress of legislation and provision of legal opinions thereon;

(d) translating legislation and any other legal documents from English to other languages, as necessary;

(e) publishing written laws;

(f) reviewing, refining and improving the legislative drafting process in South Sudan;

(g) conducting research and proposing legal reforms; and

(h) performing any other duty or function that may be assigned to it, or which is reasonably related to the forgoing activities.

Services Rendered by the Directorate

The Directorate provide the following services:

Prepare Explanatory Notes to Cabinet and the Assembly.
Provide technical assistance in the drafting.
Provide technical opinion on Bills and regulations.
In consultation with leadership of the Ministry authorize publication of Acts of Parliament, and other legislative instruments.
Advise on the interpretation of existing and proposed laws.
Advise on law reform.
Supervise the printing and publishing of laws in the Official Gazette and issuing them in volumes.
Consolidate the principal Acts with the amendments.

Legislation Department

The Department Drafts:

Bills proposed by Concern Institutions after expressing an opinion on the Bills including subsidiary legislation.
Prepare Provisional Orders when the Assembly is not in session and provide an opinion so that the Provisional Order is not in violations on any matters affecting the Bill of Rights, the decentralized system of government, general elections, annual allocation of resources and financial revenue, penal legislation or alteration of administrative boundaries of the states.
Supervises the printing of laws and publication in volumes.
prepare proposals to reform laws.

Gazette Unit

The unit shall:

Gazette all laws, regulations, rules, and provisional orders were
publish legal and judicial announcements.
Gazette subsidiary legislation, republican decrees.

Publication and Printing Unit

The unit shall:

Print and publish the South Sudan Gazette and any other necessary government publications.
Publish written laws.
Print and publish the South Sudan Laws in volumes

Constitutional Affairs Unit

The unit shall:

Provide legal opinions and preparing technical drafting on to amend the Constitution
Harmonize state constitutions with the Constitution and any amendments to the Constitution and international agreements ratified by South Sudan.
Prepare legal opinions on constitutional issues.
Provide legal opinions on disputes within the scope of decentralized governance.
Supervise the editing and issuance of the Constitution.
Any other tasks assigned by the Minister or Undersecretary.

Constitutional Affairs Unit

Gazette, Printing and Publication Unit

The Republic of South Sudan