Macau Law - Library of Congress
Macau
[alternate spelling: Macao]
Special Administrative Region of China
(formerly: Chinese Territory under Portuguese Administration)
CONSTITUTION
* 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
* Government of Macao
* Provisional Municipal Council of Macau
JUDICIAL
LEGISLATIVE
* GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations. See Portugal for entries before the year 2000
* Cerim€nia de TransferÕncia de Poderes (Gabinete de Coorden¡ao da Cerim€nia de TransferÕncia / The Macau Handover Ceremony Coordination Office) Includes - in Chinese, Portuguese and English - the relevant official handover documents of December 1999:
o The Basic Law of The Macau Special Administrative Region of The People's Republic of China; see also copy at University of Macau
o 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
* C?mara Municipal de Macau Provis€ria [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
LEGAL GUIDES AND MISCELLANEOUS
* GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
* Multinational Collections Database: Macau (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
* AsianLII: Macau, China (Asian Legal Information Institute)
* World Legal Information Institute: Macau (WorldLII)
* World Legal Materials from Asia: Macau (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
GENERAL SOURCES
* Country Study: Macau (Library of Congress) 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 (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) (U.S. Dept. of State)
* 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)
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