Circular of the General Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on Ensuring Regulations and Normative Documents Clean-up in This Municipality

Circular of the General Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government on Ensuring Regulations and Normative Documents Clean-up in This Municipality

Hu Fu Ban Fa [2010] No.23

June 7, 2010

To all District and County People's Governments, all relevant Commissions, Offices and Bureaus (Administrations) of the Municipal People's Government, and all relevant units:

To establish socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics in 2010 is the overall goal of legislative work in the new period put forward at the 15th Party Congress. The timely clean-up of municipal regulations and normative documents in accordance with the principle of unified legal system ensures the on-schedule realization of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics in 2010, assures the formation of more scientific regulations and normative documents in this Municipality, and promotes unification and harmony of those documents with laws and rules, so as to better serve this Municipality's economic and social development. As required by the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Some Issues Relating to Regulations Clean-up (Guo Ban Fa [2010] No. 28) and the Provisions of Shanghai Municipality on Formulation and Filing of Administrative Normative Documents (Order of the Municipal People's Government No.26), the following Notice is hereby made on regulations and normative documents clean-up in this Municipality upon the approval of the Municipal People's Government:

I. Regulations Clean-up
Each district/county people's government, department of the Municipal People's Government and relevant unit shall clean up in a centralized manner all the government regulations that are currently effective, find out and conscientiously solve the problems of apparent inconsistency, inappropriateness and incompatibility existing in regulations, especially the problems of being inconsistent with the upper laws, and handle them by different categories under different circumstances depending on their importance and urgency.
1. Clean-up Division
In accordance with the principle of who drafted, who clean up, each district/county people's government, department of the Municipal People's Government and relevant unit shall put forward clean-up proposals for the government regulations they drafted. In case that one regulation is implemented jointly by several departments, the relevant department may also put forward the clean-up proposal. (See appendix I for list of the currently effective government regulations and clean-up division in this Municipality).
2. Clean-up Focus
(1) Regulations that are inconsistent with the upper law.
A. The upper law on which regulations are based has been repealed or revised.
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