Publications Act (PubG) - Official Publication Organs (PUBG)

1. The official publication organs of the canton are

a) the Collection of Laws;

b) the Official Gazette.

1. The official publications are issued by the State Chancellery.

1. Official publications shall be made available in electronic form via the Internet.

2. Access is free of charge.

1. If the official publication organs are not accessible via the Internet or data security cannot be ensured for other reasons, they may be published by other appropriate means.

2. The publication in electronic form via the Internet shall be carried out as soon as possible.

1. The following can be accessed

a) the official publication organs at the State Chancellery and the State Archive;

b) the publications of the Federation pursuant to Article 18 of the Federal Act on the Collections of Federal Laws and the Federal Gazette of June 18, 2004, at the State Chancellery.

2. Access is free of charge.

1. Individual official publications can be obtained in printed form from the State Chancellery.

2. The government may establish a fee for obtaining them.

1. The State Chancellery ensures the authenticity, integrity, as well as the stable and permanent availability of official publications.

2. It implements the necessary measures and regularly verifies whether they comply with the current state of the art.

1. Official publication organs may contain personal data and particularly sensitive personal data pursuant to Art. 1 letters a and b of the Data Protection Act of January 20, 2009, if this is necessary for a legally required publication.

2. Publications containing particularly sensitive personal data are not made publicly accessible for longer than required and do not contain more information than necessary for their purpose.

3. The State Chancellery ensures the protection of particularly sensitive personal data upon publication. In doing so, it takes into account the state of the art.

1. The following decrees shall be published in the legal collection

a) Cantonal Constitution;

b) Cantonal laws;

c) Regulatory decrees of the Cantonal Council, the government, the departments, and the state chancellery, as well as the Cantonal Court, the Administrative Court, and the Insurance Court;

d) Inter-state agreements with constitutional or legal status and decisions of the Cantonal Council concerning the approval, amendment, and termination of such agreements;

e) Regulatory decrees

1. From organizations with cantonal participation and third parties requiring the approval of the Cantonal Council or the government;

2. From inter-cantonal bodies;

f) Decrees of religious communities recognized as public-law corporations concerning the fundamental principles of their organization;

g) Resolutions subject to referendum concerning new expenditures;

h) Declarations of general applicability of collective labor agreements;

i) Standard employment contracts.

2. The government may include additional regulatory decrees in the legal collection if there is a public interest in their publication.

1. Ordinances may only be published with the title and source of reference or citation if they

a) are published in another publication that is publicly and freely accessible in Switzerland, or

b) are unsuitable for publication in the official compendium due to their special nature. In such cases, publication is carried out in another suitable manner.

1. The Legal Code consists of the Chronological Legal Code and the Systematic Legal Code.

1. The Chronological Compendium of Laws (nGS) contains the enactments that have become legally valid in chronological order.

1. The Systematic Legal Collection (sGS) contains the revised, subject-matter organized, and continuously updated collection of legally valid enactments.

1. The State Chancellery may informally

a) correct editorial errors, provided that the meaning of the provision is not altered;

b) update information such as references, citations, or abbreviations in footnotes.

2. It may remove enactments that are no longer legally valid or are obsolete due to enforcement from the systematic collection of laws.

1. The State Chancellery corrects formulations in the chronological and systematic collection of laws that do not correspond to the decision of the enacting body and alter the meaning of the provision. The formal correction is not subject to a referendum.

1. The approval of the competent committee of the Cantonal Council is required for

a) the formal correction of the following enactments

1. Cantonal Constitution;

2. Cantonal laws;

3. Legislative enactments of the Cantonal Council;

4. Legislative enactments of organizations with cantonal participation and third parties requiring the approval of the Cantonal Council;

5. Decisions subject to referendum concerning new expenditures;

b) the updating and removal from the systematic collection of laws of enactments according to letter a of this provision, as well as of interstate agreements with constitutional or legislative status.

1. The electronic edition of the legal collection is authoritative. The chronological and systematic legal collections are equally binding.

2. In case of publication by reference, the edition referred to shall be authoritative.

1. Legally valid enactments shall be published at least five days prior to the commencement of enforcement.

2. If there is an urgent need for regulation, the publication may occur less than five days before the commencement of enforcement. A retroactive commencement of enforcement is permissible within the framework of constitutional requirements.

1. Decrees published after this decree are considered known and legally binding for the addressees from the commencement of their execution.

2. Decrees for which neither a commencement date nor an authority responsible for setting the commencement date has been determined shall become legally binding for the addressees five days after their publication.

3. The legal effect of decrees published according to Art. 9 para. 2 of this decree does not depend on their publication.

1. Enactments that are published late become legally binding for the addressees five days after their publication. Article 18 paragraph 2 of this enactment remains reserved.

1. In intergovernmental agreements and legislative enactments of inter-cantonal bodies, deviations from Articles 18 to 20 of this enactment are permissible.

1. The Official Gazette is published in electronic form on a publication platform accessible via the Internet.

2. The government may provide for additional content to be published on the publication platform.

3. The publication platform contains no advertising.

1. The Official Gazette Publishes

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| a) | the texts and official announcements of the canton and municipalities required to be published in the Official Gazette by specific legal provisions; | | |

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| b) | enactments subject to legal remedies; | | |

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| c) | notices of public consultations on legislative enactments of the canton; | | |

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| d) | the messages and draft enactments forwarded by the government to the cantonal council, which, pursuant to Article 9 of this enactment, are to be published in the statutory collection; | | |

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| e) | reports and proposals of the government concerning the content of initiative requests pursuant to [Art. 43](https://www.gesetzessammlung.sg.ch/data/125.1/en/art43), [53septies](https://www.gesetzessammlung.sg.ch/data/125.1/en/art53septies), and [59](https://www.gesetzessammlung.sg.ch/data/125.1/en/art59) of the Law on Referendum and Initiative of November 27, 1967[[5]](#enumeration_itemtext_content_fn_120865_2_5_c); | | |

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| f) | other reports forwarded by the government to the cantonal council if it decides to publish them in individual cases; | | |

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| g) | the reports and drafts related to legislative enactments of the cantonal council forwarded by the presidency of the cantonal council to the cantonal council; | | |

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| h) | the written reports submitted by the competent bodies of the cantonal council to the cantonal council regarding messages and drafts of the government according to letter d of this provision, if the body decides to publish them in individual cases; | | |

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| i) | agenda and brief minutes of the cantonal council. | | |

2. The State Chancellery may include additional information in the Official Gazette if there is a public interest in its publication.

1. The version published on the publication platform of the Official Gazette is authoritative.

1. The official gazette is deemed known upon publication.

1. The council shall publish the municipality's collection of laws in an appropriate manner.

2. The collection of laws may be published on an electronic platform.

1. The council designates the publication platform pursuant to Art. 22 of this decree, one or more newspapers, or a newsletter that is delivered to all households, as the official publication organ of the municipality.

1. If the publication platform is designated as the official publication organ, the edition published on the publication platform is authoritative as the official publication.

2. If the legal collection of the municipality is published on an electronic platform, the electronic edition is authoritative.

1. The official publication of the municipality is considered known upon its release.

1. Decrees in effect at the commencement of this decree shall retain their legal validity.

1. The collection of laws pursuant to the Law on the Collection of Laws and the Official Gazette dated December 21, 1953, as updated at the commencement of the execution of this decree, shall be continued as the collection of laws according to Art. 9 et seq. of this decree.

2. The following will be removed from the systematic collection of laws

a) Decrees that do not correspond to the types of decrees listed in Art. 9 para. 1. An exception is made for the removal of a decree if there is a public interest in its retention in the systematic collection of laws;

b) Decrees that are no longer legally valid or have been superseded by execution.

3. The government shall identify the decrees to be removed from the collection of laws pursuant to para. 2 of this provision and shall publish an appropriate list in the Official Gazette.

1. For decrees that continue in the legal code according to Article 31 of this decree, the electronic edition of the legal code shall be authoritative.

2. For decrees of the chronological legal code that are not accessible electronically, the printed edition shall remain authoritative.