Ichkeria Digital Archive — CHRI-0070. One of the most important surviving administrative-legal documents of the early Chechen Republic. This is a facsimile of the state-published act and its attached regulation, not a photograph of the separate signed manuscript.
Archival identification
| Archive reference | CHRI-0070 |
| Document date | 26 August 1992 |
| Act number | 66 |
| Original presidential act type | Распоряжение Президента Чеченской Республики |
| Attached document | Положение о государственном учете нормативных актов Чеченской Республики |
| Issuing institution | President of the Chechen Republic, Dzhokhar Dudaev |
| Administrative authority | National Committee for Legal Reform under the President of the Chechen Republic |
| Place of issue | Grozny |
| Language | Russian |
| Primary edition | Сборник распоряжений и постановлений Президента Чеченской Республики. Grozny: Kniga, 1993; printed pages 30–33 (source PDF pages 16–17). |
| Evidence level | Contemporary institutional publication; independently signed original not examined |
Purpose and contents
Directive No. 66 approves a regulation establishing state registration of normative legal acts and assigns implementation and oversight responsibilities to presidential, ministerial and departmental offices and to the National Committee for Legal Reform.
The regulation provides for centralized collection and registration of legal acts, coverage of laws of Parliament, presidential acts, decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers and certain ministerial rules. It instructs issuing bodies to transmit copies of their normative acts to the Committee within ten days of adoption, describes record-keeping and retrieval arrangements, and provides for the Committee to maintain legal information funds. It is signed at the end of the publication by the Committee chairman, U. Imaev.
Russian facsimile (4-page PDF)
View or download Directive No. 66 and its attached Regulation (PDF). The PDF consists of carefully cropped portions of the 1993 institutional printing, preserving the printed Russian text and paragraph numbering.
Historical research significance
This regulation indicates that the Republic instituted a formal centralized procedure for registering normative acts. Identifying the register or the legal-information funds administered by the National Committee for Legal Reform could provide the basis for locating many missing presidential and parliamentary documents. Whether such a register survives and where it is held remain open research questions.
Archival note
The document has been reproduced from a contemporary institutional printed collection rather than an independent signed original. The publication date, the original directive date, and the distinct status of its attached regulation are recorded separately. This catalogue entry does not prove that every provision was subsequently implemented in practice.
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