Legislative Scrutiny is a system for assessing the effectiveness of statutes. Legislative scrutiny will be different according to the moment when it is carried on. There are different ways of scrutinizing a bill or statute.

General Issues About Legislative Scrutiny

Legislative scrutiny is a mechanism for determining whether a particular juridical instrument is effective for accomplishing the ends for which it is or will be created. There are three ways of undertaking legislative scrutiny: before, during and after the enactment of a particular norm.[1]

Legislative Scrutiny in the World

There are different ways of carrying out legislative scrutiny. They will vary according to the country where they are performed.

In the United States there are legislative scrutiny agencies, as the Government Accountability Office.

In Spain this will depend on the region where this scrutiny is carried out, for instance, in the Basque Country there are special norms about legislative scrutiny of public policies.[2]

In Chile there are diverse ways of assessing the effectiveness of norms, an example of which are parliamentary evaluations.[3]

References

  1. ^ Ulrich Karpen, La Evaluación de las Consecuencias de las Leyes, en Anuario Iberoamericano de Justicia Constitucional, Nº 8, Trad. por Brage Camazano, Joaquín, Madrid, 2004[dead link]
  2. ^ Josu Osés Abando, Evaluación Legislativa y Parlamento, Revista Debate, Nº 15 "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2011. Retrieved April 24, 2011.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ Alvaro Paul Díaz and Sebastián Soto Velasco, Legislar con Eficiencia: La Importancia de Evaluar las Leyes, Revista Actualidad Jurídica, Nº 19, p. 585[dead link]
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