Codex of Adammic Law

The Codex of Adammic Law is the official compilation and codification of all active legislation in the Empire of Adammia. It is compiled and published by the Office of State.

The Office of State was charged with creating the Codex by Imperial Decree XXIII, issued on 30 March 2014. The first edition was regularly updated until May 2015, when it was abandoned due to time constraints. The second edition was published on 19 July 2019. Since then it has been re-published annually, integrating the legislation passed by the most recent term of Parliament, with the most recent, third edition, being published on 24 September 2020.

The sources of the Codex are the Supreme Directive, Imperial Decrees and Acts of Parliament (formerly known as Acts of Council). It does not include legislation which appointed officials, claimed territory or made other such "one-off" actions. It presents legislation as amended by subsequent legislation, and does not include repealed legislation. It is intended to form a more easily-readable presentation of Adammic law, reflecting its current status and organised by topic, allowing for easier analysis of Adammic law. However, it disclaims that the original legislation, rather than the Codex, is what is ultimately interpreted in a court of law.

The Codex consists of fourteen chapters, which comprise a total of 106 articles.

Structure

Chapter I
- 1. Article
  - a) Section
    - i) Subsection
      - 1. Part

Fundamental law
- a) - b) Promulgation of the Supreme Directive
- c) - d) Entrenchment and amendment
Extent of sovereignty
- a) Macronational sovereignty
- b) Macronational privilege
- c) Claim of sovereign status
Miscellaneous provisions of state
- a) Full and short name
- b) Language
- c) Government system
- d) Demonym
- e) Foundation date
Dissolution and successor states
National symbols
- a) General provisions
- b) Flag
- c) National Anthem
- d) Coat of Arms
- e) National Sport
- f) National Animal
- g) Motto
- h) Patron Saint
- i) Civil ensign

Chapter II - Territory

Sovereign territory
- a) Definition
- b) Treaties of Annexation
Territorial divisions
- a) General provisions
- b) Country of Adammia
- c) Colonies
- d) Provinces
- e) Territories
- f) Regions
- g) Subdivisions
Jurisdiction
- a) Jurisdiction of Supreme Directive
- b) Jurisdiction of Acts and Decrees
- c) Application to citizens living abroad
Capital city
Lower subdivisions
- a) Counties
- b) - c) Municipalities
- d) Devolution to subdivisions

Chapter III - Citizenship

Types of citizenship
Full citizenship
Honourary citizenship
Rights of Citizens
Citizenship requirements and registration
- a) Basic requirements
- b) - c) Registration requirements and database
- d) Births
- e) Deaths
Expiry and termination of citizenship
- a) Expiry of honourary citizenship
- b) Downgrade from full to honourary
- c) Voluntary revocation
Gender rights
Protection of records
Order of precedence

Chapter IV - Founder's Rights

Chapter V - Monarchy

The Monarch's Status
- a) Head of State
- b) Primary title
- c) Full title
- d) Secondary title
- e) Exclusion from being Prime Minister
Legislative Powers of the Monarch
Executive Powers of the Monarch
- a) Titles
- b) Pardons
- c) Citizenship
- d) Office of the Emperor
Abdication
Succession and the Imperial Family
- a) Succession provisions
- b) - d) Definition of the Heir
- e) Heir's title
- f) Princes and Princesses
- g) Monarch's parents
- h) Monarch's spouse
- i) Unmarried consorts
- j) Imperial Family
Regency
Emergency situations
Orders of chivalry
- a) Order of Adammia
- b) Ordo Vladius
- c) Order of the Meerkat
Heraldry
Social media
Imperial Standard

Chapter VI - Legislature

Powers and constituent parts
- a) - c) Name and composition
- d) - g) Powers
- h) Ex post facto laws
- i) Ban on laws which cannot be repealed in future
Ruling Council
- a) Composition
- b) Chair and Vice-Chairs
- c) - e) Meeting requirements
- f) Meeting procedures
- g) Voting
- h) Suspension
Nobility
- a) General provisions
- b) Archdukes and Archduchesses
- c) Dukes and Duchesses
- d) Nobles of subdivisions
- e) Counts and Countesses
- f) Lord Mayors and Lady Mayors
- g) Barons and Baronesses
- h) Inheritance
- i) Titles and styles
Election of Councilors and the Delegate of the Colonies
- a) Calling of elections
- b) Eligibility
- c) Nomination period
- d) - e) Provisions for uncontested elections
- f) Polling procedure (instant-runoff voting)
- g) Counting of ballots
- h) Delegate of the Colonies
- i) Dual residency for local election purposes
House of Citizens
- a) Composition
- b) Speaker and Deputy Speakers
- c) - e) Meeting requirements
- f) Meeting procedures
- g) Voting
General elections
- a) Calling of elections
- b) Nomination and eligibility
- c) Provisions for uncontested elections
- d) Polling procedure (D'Hondt method)
- e) Counting of ballots
- f) - g) Vacancies
Acts of Parliament
Meeting procedures of the Ruling Council
- a) - e) Agenda
- f) - i) Order
- j) Points
- k) - o) Motions
- p) - r) Meeting structure
- s) Observers
- t) Records
- u) Official chambers
Electoral law
- a) - c) Nomination forms
- d) Revocation of candidacy
- e) Duration of polling
- f) - j) Electoral offences
- k) Counting officials
- l) Declaration of results

Chapter VII - Executive and administrative

Office of State
- a) - b) Responsibilities
- c) - e) Chancellor
- f) Codex of Adammic Law
Role of the Imperial Government
- a) - b) General provisions
- c) Responsibilities
- d) Powers and constraints
- e) - g) Prime Minister
- h) Ministers and Deputy Prime Minister
- i) Extraordinary provisions
- j) Accountability
Structure of the Imperial Government
- a) Ministries
- b) - e) Cabinet
- f) - j) Locations of offices
- k) Imperial Civil Service
- l) Government agencies
- m) Government-owned companies
Cabinet Office
- a) - b) General provisions
- c) - d) Cabinet Secretary
Public finance
- a) Ministry of Finance
- b) His Majesty's Imperial Treasury
- c) Currency
- d) Calendar
- e) Fiscal year
- f) Supply
- g) Budget
- h) Emergency Appropriations
- i) - j) Government shutdowns
- k) Emergency reserves
- l) Imperial Bank of Adammia
- m) Imperial Companies Agency
- n) Imperial Land Registry
- o) National Employment Agency
Defence
- a) - d) State of War
- e) - h) Ministry of Defence defence policy
- i) Military of Adammia
- j) Grand Marshal
- k) Service branches
- l) High Command
- m) - n) Commissioned officers
- o) Units and sub-units
- p) Non-commissioned officers
- q) Enlisted personnel
- r) Mobilisation
- s) Orders and the chain of command
- t) - u) Military offences
- v) Summary dismissal and court martial
- w) Classified information
Military symbols
Law enforcement
- a) Adammic Police Force
- b) Responsibilities
- c) Composition
- d) - e) General powers
- f) - i) Search warrants
- j) - o) Use of minimal force and relationship with macronational law enforcement
Constable elections
States of Emergency
Citizenship and Information
- a) - b) Ministry of Citizenship and Information
- c) Imperial Institute of History and protected objects
- d) Imperial Institute of Geography and place-names
- e) Imperial Archive
- f) Imperial Statistics Office
Foreign affairs
- a) Ministry of Foreign Affairs
National development
- a) Ministry of National Development
- b) Foundation Day
- c) Other national holidays
- d) Sport
- e) National parks
- f) Adammic Imperial Space Agency
- g) Adammic Weather Office
- h) Transport Network Agency
- i) National Communications Agency
- j) National Gallery
- k) Adammic Express
- l) Adammic Online Broadcasting
- m) Imperial Mail
- n) Liaison with local government
- o) Government responsibilities relating to the climate emergency
Memes
- a) Ministry of Memes

Chapter VIII - Judiciary

Constitutional role
Court system
- a) Criminal courts
- b) Civil courts
- c) Imperial Law
- d) - e) Legal persons
- f) - h) Standard of proof
- i) Discovery
- j) Case naming formula
- k) - l) Double jeopardy
Overriding objectives
Grand Court
Appellate Courts
First Instance Courts
Judges
- a) Definition
- b) - c) Appointment of judges
- d) Panels of judges
- e) - h) General provisions
- i) Remedies and sentences
- j) Verdicts
Appeals
Juries
Attorney General
Court Offences
- a) - b) Perjury
- c) - e) Contempt of court
- f) Corruption in court
Criminal, civil and constitutional law
General procedure
Service
Orders and verdicts
- a) - b) Orders
- c) - d) Staying of orders
- e) Motions
- f) Dismissal of cases
- g) - i) Default verdict
- j) Ex parte proceedings
Court procedures - criminal
- a) - b) Indictment
- c) - d) Initiation of proceedings
- e) Pleas
- f) - g) Opening statements
- h) - j) Cross-examination
- k) - n) Jury and judge's decisions
- o) Power of Attorney General to assume responsibility for criminal prosecutions
Court procedures - civil
- a) - d) Petition for relief
- e) - g) Defendant's answer
- h) - i) Initiation of proceedings
- j) - k) Opening statements
- l) - n) Cross-examination
- o) - p) Judge's decision
Hosting of court sessions
Witnesses
Court scribe and records
Definitions
Judicial review
- a) Actions of the Imperial Government
- b) Actions of provincial local councils
- c) Actions of colonial governments
- d) Review of lower courts by higher courts
- e) Actions of the Monarchy
- f) Review of Imperial Decrees and Acts of Parliament
- g) - h) General provisions
Legal representation
- a) Appointment of representation
- b) Corporate representation
- c) Change of representation
- d) Privileged communication between clients and representatives

Chapter IX - Local government

Local Councils
- Composition
- Powers
- Accountability
Secession
Colonial governance
- a) General provisions
- b) Defence and foreign relations
- c) Citizenship
- d) Economics
- e) Titles
- f) Infrastructure
- g) Co-operation

Chapter X - Foreign affairs

Diplomatic recognition
International treaties
Terror organisations
Affiliation with the European Union

Chapter XI - Political parties

Registration
Membership
President
- a) General provisions
- b) Responsibilities
Elections

Chapter XII - Company law

Registration
- a) - b) Companies Register
- c) Office
- d) Directors
- e) Type
Taxation
- a) Company tax
- b) Taxable profits
- c) Annual reports
Imperial Warrant of Appointment

Chapter XIII - Criminal code

Protected items
GDPR compliance
Rebellion
Inchoate offences
- a) Accessory
- b) Attempt
- c) Coercion
- d) Conspiracy
- e) Incitement
- f) Solicitation
Climate emergency
- a) - e) Ownership of shares in polluting companies
- f) - g) Import of palm oil
Miscellaneous

Chapter XIV - Civil code

Standards
- Metric system
Defamation
- a) - b) General provisions
- c) Types of defamation (libel and slander, per se and per quod)
- d) Defences against defamation
Marriage
Land ownership
Employment

First edition

The first edition of the Codex, last updated in 2015, consisted of the following 32 articles, split over five chapters:

General
Fundamental law
Sovereignty
Symbols
Territory
Citizenship
Diplomacy
Monarchy
Nobility
Voting and the Office of State
Delegates and Colonies
Ruling Council
Political parties
National Government
Government agencies and companies
Public finance
Defence
Local government
Colonial government
Judiciary
States of Emergency
National Holidays and Events
State Media
Honours and Orders
Titles and Styles
National Treasures
Sports
Economic system
Companies
Employment
Censorship
Miscellaneous laws