Legislation and Legislative Drafting Training Course

Why Select this Training Course?

To ensure that the rule of law is effectively implemented and that democratic principles are upheld, legislators must write laws that do just that. Legislative awareness constitutes knowing the basic drafting principles and experience in this field. The legislative drafting has become the basis of economic, political, and social changes. Rcademy’s Legislation and Legislative Drafting Program is the finest way to learn about the modern worldwide best practices in all aspects of legislation, from policy arrangement through implementation and beyond. There will be consideration of every factor of the legislative action from a practical view, legal concept, and provision of regard to the political aspects of the people attending this course at Rcademy.

How do you draft a piece of legislation?

It is essential to write carefully, purposefully, and efficiently and not rush in the writing process to draft the legislation well. It is crucial to write carefully, as the bill is a piece of writing that shapes the community. In legislation drafting, your writing must also be transparent, purposeful, and intentional.

How do legislation and legislative procedures and principles influence each other?

The legislative and legislation principles aim to guarantee people’s safety and welfare. They give a set of principles that a person should follow daily to prevent their actions from affecting another individual’s life.

The Legislation and Legislative Drafting Training Course by Rcademy will cover various goals of different sections of the legislative activity and how to achieve the field’s objective effectively. The training program will also focus on the current legislative field growth and how to implement them to promote the practice in the attendees’ local context. It aims to enhance the knowledge of the legislative and legislation principles and a broad awareness of what makes legislative quality and how one can achieve it. This Rcademy training course will give you the basic principles of drafting legislation by following the standard methods. In addition, it will help you better understand why legislative drafting is crucial in the parliamentary system.

Who Should Attend?

The Legislation and Legislative Drafting Training Course by Rcademy is ideal for:

• Policymakers
• Regulatory officials
• Government officials
• Public sector lawyers
• Legislative professionals
• People interested in administrative and constitutional law
• Private field lawyers with an interest in public law

What are the Course Objectives?

The objectives of The Legislation and Legislative Drafting Training Course by Rcademy are to enable professionals to:

• Understand the primary principles of an excellent legislative drafting
• Determine the rules of good delegation of legislative authority
• Understand how to create legislative inspection effectively
• Determine the suitable documentation models for all the levels of the legislative activity
• Apply the skills and knowledge gained to develop effective review and consultation models and mechanisms
• Understanding how to do good drafting with the use of clear, correct, and unambiguous expressions and the proper grammar
• Learn how to change legislative commands into legislative sentences for the creation of legislative drafts
• Determine the fundamental issues and considerations in preparing for an appropriate legislative draft.
• Understand how to analyze the legislative drafts proposals to ensure they align with the parliamentary standards and norms of legislative drafting
• Understand how to design a bill to ensure it matches the legislative drafting and how it should change to address modern society’s growing needs and issues.

How will this Course be Presented?

This Rcademy course will be presented using an interactive model to maximize the relevance of the attendees’ political, local, legal, and constitutional concepts. It will also incorporate case studies, and practical exercises in sessions with the findings shared in the post-program material distribution. In addition, the Rcademy training course will focus on a real-time legislative database and the associated resources from the government and parliament, and other chosen international resources. Finally, the Rcademy program will use interactive multimedia in teaching, which will assist in bringing the unit to life and improve the teaching methods to help participants make informed decisions that can become incorporated with their organizational rhythm.

What are the Topics Covered in this Course?

Module 1: Introduction to Legislation and Legislative Drafting 

• The factors that make legislative and legislation drafting
  – Legislation and legislative expression
  – Legislative and drafting counsel
• Definition of legislation
• Categories of legislation
• Format and structure of acts and bills
• Classification of the primary legislation bills and acts
• Conventional design model of the actions and bills
• Purposes of drafts in parliamentary systems
• Drafting goals
• Historical growth of the legislative drafting
• Fundamental traits of this concept of drafting
• The theoretical framework of legislative drafting

Module 2: Writing of Legislative and Legislation Sentences 

• Why grammar is vital in drafting
• The most common grammatical mistakes in drafting
• Understanding of the legislation’s grammatical terms
• Factors of legislative sentences
• Category of legislative sentences

Module 3: Legislation Drafting 

• Basics of drafting
• Alternative approaches
• Arranging your draft
• Using plain English
• Dos and Don’ts in drafting
• Alternative methods of drafting

Module 4: Documentation of Legislative 

• The process of documentation
• The life cycle of legislation
• Preparation of documents
• Document management and tracking
• Availability of the legislation
• Illustration notes and other resources
• Promulgation and publication
• Editorial correction and correction slips

Module 5: Quasi and Subordinate Legislation 

• The basics of subordinate legislation
• Subordinate legislation scrutiny
• Subordinate legislation preparation
• Problems in the subordinate legislation
• Implementation of subordinate legislation
• Fundamentals of the quasi legislation
• Application of the quasi legislation
• Preparation of the quasi legislation

Module 6: Legislative Scrutiny 

• Details of substantive scrutiny
• Principles of substantive scrutiny
• Primary legislation-technical scrutiny
• Strategy and classification of amendments
• Private member’s bills
• Shareholder’s Participation in scrutiny
• Local and private legislation

Module 7: Drafting of Legislative 

• The general rules of drafting
• Specific challenges of the principles of drafting
• Parameters and potentials of plain language
• Construction canons
• Presumptions of constructions

Module 8: Review and Consultation 

• Prior legislative scrutiny
• Post legislative scrutiny
• Consultation practice and principles
• Effect evaluation
• Practical benchmarking