Outdated provisions and wording will be removed from the Law on Referendums

ArmInfo. Amendments to the Law "On Referendum" and the accompanying legislative package were discussed at the November 12 meeting of the RA National Assembly Committee on State and Legal Affairs.

Presenting the package, Deputy Minister of Justice Tigran Dadunts noted that the proposed amendments are technical in nature.

In particular, it is envisaged to exclude outdated provisions and wording from the aforementioned laws. Thus, it is proposed to remove the words "Official Bulletin of the Republic of Armenia" from several articles of the law, replacing them with the general wording "official publication."

As a result of the amendments proposed in the package, problematic and outdated provisions will be edited, and provisions enshrined in legislative acts will be updated. will be fully consistent with each other, as well as with the requirements of the Law "On Regulatory Legal Acts."

Commission member Nona Hovhannisyan positively assessed the proposed amendments and urged her colleagues to vote for them.

The package received a positive conclusion from the commission and will be considered at the plenary session of parliament, which begins on November 17.