Main menu

 The main menu is always visible on the top bar of the Register of Legal Acts website. This menu allows accessing various pages of the website, choose its versions adapted for the disabled or mobile devices, and change language settings.

Home page

The home page of the Register of Legal Acts contains two sections: a simple search for legal acts and useful links.

A simple search is performed by entering keywords from the title of a legal act:

When searching for a legal act by a keyword from the title, Lithuanian characters may be entered by using the keypad icon on the right of the search box. In addition, the following search options are possible:

–    All words: legal acts that contain all the entered keywords will be displayed;

–    Any of the words: legal acts that contain at least one of the entered keywords will be displayed;

–    Exact phrase: legal acts that contain the exact fragment of the entered text will be displayed;

–    None of these words: legal acts that do not contain the entered keywords will be displayed.

The ‘Search’ button will open the search results featuring a list of legal acts matching the search parameters. The list of search results allows refining search options and/or shortening the list of search results by filtering according to the following parameters: ‘Group’, ‘Type’, ‘Agency’, ‘Enactment date’, ‘Date of entry into force’, ‘Status’, ‘Date of recording in the Register of Legal Acts’, ‘Eurovoc’.

The ‘Validity/Amendments/Drafts’ column contains the following information:

 - legal act is in force;
– legal act has not entered into force;
- legal act is invalid;
– link to the list of consolidated versions by date;
– legal act has been amended.

The ‘Title’ column may contain information about the current consolidated version of a legal act.

The comment ‘There are changes’ accompanying the information on the existing consolidated version indicates in red that a legal act has been amended, but a respective consolidated version is not yet available.

A search for a legal act may also be performed by consolidated versions:

After entering the keywords (phrase) in the search box, ticking ‘Search in consolidated versions’ and clicking on the ‘Search’ button, the list of consolidated versions of legal acts matching the search parameters is opened. The list of search results may be refined and/or shortened by filtering it according to the following parameters: ‘Type’, ‘Agency’, ‘Valid from’, and ‘Valid until’. The consolidated version in the list of search results is marked with a green bullet in the “Status” column.

Clicking on the ‘Advanced search’ button opens the legal act search page, where additional search parameters can be entered.

The ‘Useful links’ section contains links to various useful information:

Latest legal acts

The page of the latest legal acts contains a list of the most recent legal acts sorted into the groups provided for in the Register of Legal Acts (‘Legal acts of government institutions and agencies’, ‘Municipal legal acts’, ‘International documents’ and ‘Courts documents’) either by date of their registration with the Register of Legal Acts or by date of their entry into force. 

A separate card is provided for each group of legal acts. Based on the selected mode, the page lists the latest legal acts by date of registration within one month from the date of registration of the latest legal act in a given group.

You can use filtering to change the date interval of the displayed legal acts or to set a filter by date of entry into force. After filtering parameters have been changed and the ‘Update’ button is clicked, the list of results for the relevant group of legal acts will be updated.

The ‘Print/Save selection’ button opens a new window that displays a list of selected legal acts ready for printing or saving by using browser tools.

Search for legal acts

This page provides a tool for an advanced search for legal acts:

The special operation symbols ‘-’ and ‘+’ may be used for an advanced search by keyword from the title and/or text of a legal act:

1.     When the search option ‘All words’ is selected, the operation symbol ‘-’ entered before a keyword means that word combinations with this keyword will not be included in the search. For example, after entering ‘ministry -development’ (without quotations) in the search box ‘Word in the title’, the search is performed for the legal acts containing the word ‘Ministry’ (in any case) in the title, but excluding the word ‘development’ (in any case).

2.     When ‘Any of the words’ is selected, the operation sign ‘+’ entered before a keyword means that this keyword must be always included in the search.

The TAR identification code box on the legal act search form indicates the registration number of a legal act with the Register of Legal Acts.

The underlined words ‘President’, ‘Seimas’ and ‘Government’ to the right of the entry box of an institution allow quickly selecting the agency that has adopted a legal act, and the underlined words ‘Decree’, ‘Law’ and ‘Decision’ at the entry box of a type of a legal act allow quickly selecting the type of a legal act.