1. Collection of laws
The compilation of laws (or regulations) refers to the activities of sorting and compiling normative legal documents into books according to certain purposes and standards, and systematically sorting and classifying them. The compilation of laws does not change the contents of normative legal documents and does not process legal norms. Therefore, the compilation of law does not belong to the creation of law, but is mainly a technical sorting and classification activity, which is the main difference between legal compilation and codification.
There are many kinds of legal collections. There are official and unofficial ones. Officially compiled laws are mainly laws compiled by law-creating organs at all levels; Unofficial legal collections are usually compiled by relevant state organs, institutions of higher learning, research institutions, social organizations, enterprises and institutions according to the needs of work, study or teaching and scientific research. The carrier form of legal compilation is self-printing and official publication.
2. Codification of laws
Legal codification refers to the legal creation activity of sorting out, reviewing, supplementing and modifying all normative legal documents belonging to a certain class or part of law, or compiling a new systematic law on this basis. If the purpose of this legal codification activity is to formulate a code, it is called codification. Therefore, the legal edition is different from the legal edition. It is not a purely technical activity, but an important legal creation activity, and this activity can only be carried out by the relevant national legislature.
3. Legal cleanup
Legal clean-up, also known as legal clean-up, refers to the activities of the relevant legislative organs or authorized organs of the state to review, clean up and sort out the normative legal documents within a certain period and scope according to the unified arrangements of the state or the provisions of the law, and re-determine their legal effect. According to China's practice, there are two kinds of legal cleaning: one is a planned legal cleaning activity arranged according to the national unity; The other is according to the law, that is, after a new law or regulation is promulgated, all relevant laws and regulations related to the new law should be cleaned up to determine whether the relevant laws and regulations are still valid and revised.
Legal clean-up activities are the exclusive activities of state organs that formulate laws and regulations. The main purpose of legal cleaning is to re-determine the legal effect of the cleaned laws and regulations according to certain cleaning purposes and standards. As a result, legal clean-up activities may have three legal effects: first, it is explicitly abolished; The second is to make changes; The third is continuous and effective. Repealed laws and regulations should be promulgated step by step through legal procedures; For those that need to be amended, the relevant regulatory authorities are instructed to make amendments according to certain requirements (purpose, time limit, etc.). ); For those that continue to be effective, it is generally necessary to clearly confirm that they continue to be effective.