Course description
To ensure that the rule of law is effectively implemented and that democratic principles are upheld, legislators must write laws that do just that. Legislative awareness constitutes knowing the basic drafting principles and experience in this field. The legislative drafting has become the basis of economic, political, and social changes. Rcademy’s Legislation and Legislative Drafting Program is the finest way to learn about the modern worldwide best practices in all aspects of legislation, from policy arrangement through implementation and beyond. There will be consideration of every factor of the legislative action from a practical view, legal concept, and provision of regard to the political aspects of the people attending this course at Rcademy.
How do you draft a piece of legislation?
It is essential to write carefully, purposefully, and efficiently and not rush in the writing process to draft the legislation well. It is crucial to write carefully, as the bill is a piece of writing that shapes the community. In legislation drafting, your writing must also be transparent, purposeful, and intentional.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend?
The Legislation and Legislative Drafting Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:
- Policymakers
- Regulatory officials
- Government officials
- Public sector lawyers
- Legislative professionals
- People interested in administrative and constitutional law
- Private field lawyers with an interest in public law
Outcome / Qualification etc.
The objectives of The Legislation and Legislative Drafting Training Course by Rcademy are to enable professionals to:
- Understand the primary principles of an excellent legislative drafting
- Determine the rules of good delegation of legislative authority
- Understand how to create legislative inspection effectively
- Determine the suitable documentation models for all the levels of the legislative activity
- Apply the skills and knowledge gained to develop effective review and consultation models and mechanisms
- Understanding how to do good drafting with the use of clear, correct, and unambiguous expressions and the proper grammar
- Learn how to change legislative commands into legislative sentences for the creation of legislative drafts
- Determine the fundamental issues and considerations in preparing for an appropriate legislative draft.
- Understand how to analyze the legislative drafts proposals to ensure they align with the parliamentary standards and norms of legislative drafting
- Understand how to design a bill to ensure it matches the legislative drafting and how it should change to address modern society’s growing needs and issues.
Training Course Content
Module 1: Introduction to Legislation and Legislative Drafting
- The factors that make legislative and legislation drafting – Legislation and legislative expression – Legislative and drafting counsel
- Definition of legislation
- Categories of legislation
- Format and structure of acts and bills
- Classification of the primary legislation bills and acts
- Conventional design model of the actions and bills
- Purposes of drafts in parliamentary systems
- Drafting goals
- Historical growth of the legislative drafting
- Fundamental traits of this concept of drafting
- The theoretical framework of legislative drafting
Module 2: Writing of Legislative and Legislation Sentences
- Why grammar is vital in drafting
- The most common grammatical mistakes in drafting
- Understanding of the legislation’s grammatical terms
- Factors of legislative sentences
- Category of legislative sentences
Module 3: Legislation Drafting
- Basics of drafting
- Alternative approaches
- Arranging your draft
- Using plain English
- Dos and Don’ts in drafting
- Alternative methods of drafting
Module 4: Documentation of Legislative
- The process of documentation
- The life cycle of legislation
- Preparation of documents
- Document management and tracking
- Availability of the legislation
- Illustration notes and other resources
- Promulgation and publication
- Editorial correction and correction slips
Module 5: Quasi and Subordinate Legislation
- The basics of subordinate legislation
- Subordinate legislation scrutiny
- Subordinate legislation preparation
- Problems in the subordinate legislation
- Implementation of subordinate legislation
- Fundamentals of the quasi legislation
- Application of the quasi legislation
- Preparation of the quasi legislation
Module 6: Legislative Scrutiny
- Details of substantive scrutiny
- Principles of substantive scrutiny
- Primary legislation-technical scrutiny
- Strategy and classification of amendments
- Private member’s bills
- Shareholder’s Participation in scrutiny
- Local and private legislation
Module 7: Drafting of Legislative
- The general rules of drafting
- Specific challenges of the principles of drafting
- Parameters and potentials of plain language
- Construction canons
- Presumptions of constructions
Module 8: Review and Consultation
- Prior legislative scrutiny
- Post legislative scrutiny
- Consultation practice and principles
- Effect evaluation
- Practical benchmarking
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