O.N. Ordina. Revisited the Codification of Administrative Legislation

Abstract: Lawmaking cannot come to an end at a certain stage by virtue of development of social, economic and political relationships that require legal regulation. Dynamism of the sources of the Russian administrative legislation, its changing and improving, passing of new acts, making amendments to those and reversal of obsolete laws make it necessary to organize the entire set of the existing administrative regulations into a definite scientifically grounded system. That is why during recent years the systematization by which the activity of the relevant governmental authorities in terms of regulation of the legislation is usually meant is of great importance in Russia in the context of forming of the new system of the sources of the Russian administrative legislation. Codification is the main form of systematization aimed at creation of new consolidated or integrating acts regulating social relations in a new way and replacing the previous legislation or creating absolutely unknown acts missing in the legal system. From the moment of adoption of the Russian Constitution in 1993 there appeared the necessity to revise the entire existing administrative law matters with a view to clear out a large quantity of actually dormant but formally still not void administrative acts and to create the new ones consolidating the separated existing regulations. Administrative legislation is uncodified to the utmost extent. Currently there exist a large number of non-interrelated rules of the administrative laws that are contained in different sources adopted by the authorities of different levels. Interaction and coordination of these rules are not regulated, often resulting in contradicting and duplicating. For the purpose of implementation of the principle of democratism it would be expedient to separate the whole group of the rules regulating the administrative legal status of citizens as an independent section and to issue a unified codified act covering these matters.