Magyar Közlöny (“Hungarian Gazette”) is a periodical, official journal of
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
. Before
2010 Hungarian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 11 and 25 April 2010 to elect the members of the National Assembly. They were the sixth free elections since the end of the communist era. 386 Members of Parliament (MPs) were elected in a combine ...
it was edited by the Cabinet of Prime Minister, after it belonged to the Editorial Board at the Ministry of Administration and Justice. It publishes measures and other documents.
Electronic version of Magyar Közlöny is regarded as trustworthy, with time stamp and with the electronic signature of the editor. Printed version is just for the aim to inform people about the changes.
Content
* Measures are published in Magyar Közlöny. These include
Constitution of Hungary
The Fundamental Law of Hungary (), the country's constitution, was adopted by parliament on 18 April 2011, promulgated by the president a week later and entered into force on 1 January 2012. It is Hungary's first constitution adopted within a dem ...
and its modifications, laws accepted by
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repr ...
, orders issued by the
Government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
, head of the
National Bank, Prime Minister and Ministers. Resolutions for the uniformity of law issued by
Kúria and decisions made by
Constitutional Court
A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether they conflict with constitutionally established ru ...
have to be taken into consideration during the usage of law. National Election Committee also uses this newspaper for publishing its stances and decisions made regarding electoral requests. Several decisions are also published here, most notably the decisions of
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade about the international law. Other segments include appointments made by the
Prime Minister
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or the
President
President most commonly refers to:
*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film and television
*'' Præsident ...
. Though resolutions of municipal governments ae also regarded as measurements, those are not published here.
* Magyar Közlöny contains only new measurements, old measurements in consolidated structure with old amendments are not published here. The sole exception is the Constitution, which may be ordered to be published in a consolidated way. It happened e.g. after the fourth amendment.
* Law or the Prime Minister may order the publishing of announcements as well.
* Orders, decisions and announcements issued by ministers or announcements from other bodies are published in Hivatalos Értesítő, which is published weekly 2 or 3 times as the Appendix of Magyar Közlöny.
History
Magyar Közlöny was first published on 4 January 1945 as a successor of earlier official newspaper, called
Budapesti Közlöny. First 15 volumes were printed in
Debrecen
Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, region and the seat of Hajdú-Bihar County. A city with county rights, it was the large ...
. Since that every issue is published in Budapest.
On the cover page the Coat of arm has been changed as well.
At the beginning it contained only measurements, but since 28 March 1945 it contained proclamations as well. (Currently these are included in Hivatalos Értesítő).
External links
magyarkozlony.huo
kozlonyok.hu/nkonline/index.php– Trustworthy content of Magyar Közlöny, downloadable as electronic document
Digitalizált Törvényhozási Tudástár
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1945 establishments in Hungary