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Macau
[alternate spelling: Macao]
Special Administrative Region of China
(formerly: Chinese Territory under Portuguese Administration)
Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources
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
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
- 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:
- NATLEX (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights; see China for current and Portugal for laws before 2000
Legal Guides
- 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 Note: 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)
Last Updated: 12/18/2008