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Article 82: [Certification - Promulgation - Entry into force]
1.
Laws enacted in accordance with the provisions of this Basic Law shall, after
countersignature, be certified by the Federal President and promulgated in the
Federal Law Gazette. Statutory instruments shall be certified by the agency that
issues them and, unless a law otherwise provides, shall be promulgated in the
Federal Law Gazette.
2.
Every law or statutory instrument shall specify the date on which it shall take
effect. In the absence of such a provision, it shall take effect on the fourteenth
day after the day on which the Federal Law Gazette containing it was published.

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Germany 1949 (rev. 2012)
VIII. The Execution of Federal Laws and the
Federal Administration
Article 83: [Execution by the Länder]
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Subsidiary unit government
The Länder shall execute federal laws in their own right insofar as this Basic Law
does not otherwise provide or permit.
Article 84: [Länder administration - Federal oversight]
1.
Where the Länder execute federal laws in their own right, they shall provide for
the establishment of the requisite authorities and regulate their administrative
procedures. If federal laws provide otherwise, the Länder may enact deviating
regulations. If a Land has enacted a law pursuant to the second sentence,
subsequent federal laws regulating the organisation of authorities and their
administrative procedure shall not be enacted until at least six months after
their promulgation, provided that no other determination has been made with
the consent of the Bundesrat. The third sentence of paragraph (2) of Article 72
shall apply accordingly. In exceptional cases, owing to a special need for uniform
federal legislation, the Federation may regulate the administrative procedure
with no possibility of separate Land legislation. Such laws shall require the
consent of the Bundesrat. Federal laws may not entrust municipalities and
associations of municipalities with any tasks.
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