Constitutional Executive Branch Judiciary Legislatures Legal Guides Other Sources GUIDE: China

CONSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES

• 17 February 1976, Organic Law of Macau; Macau's future constitution, the "Basic Law", promulgated by China's National People's Congress on 31 March 1993, in effect 20 December 1999

EXECUTIVE ARM

• Government of Macao
• Provisional Municipal Council of Macau

COURTS AND JUDICIARY

LEGISLATIVE

• Global Legal Network: Global Legal Information Network (Law ) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations. See Portugal for entries before the year 2000
• Cerimónia de Transferência de Poderes (Gabinete de Coordençao da Cerimónia de Transferência / The Macau Handover Ceremony Coordination Office) Includes - in Chinese, Portuguese and English - the relevant official handover documents of December 1999:
• The Basic Law of The Macau Special Administrative Region of The People's Republic of China; see also copy at University of Macau
• Joint Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Portugal on the Question of Macau
• Cámara Municipal de Macau Provisória [Provisional Municipal Council of Macau]
• NATLEX (International Labour Organisation) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights; see China for current and Portugal for laws before 2000

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LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law )
• Multinational Collections Database: Macau (Law ) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• World Law Index: Macau (Australasian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Macau (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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GENERAL SOURCES

• Country Study: Macau () August 20, 1999
• Background Notes: Macau (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Consular Information Sheet: Macau (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: China (U.S. Dept. of State) includes Macau
• Governments on the WWW: Macau (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Macao (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: China (U.S. Dept. of State) includes Macau
• World Factbook: Macau (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Macau (Google); Macau (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Macau (University of Redlands)