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Macau
[alternate spelling: Macao]
Special Administrative Region of China
(formerly: Chinese Territory under Portuguese Administration)

Constitution | Executive | Judicial | Legislative | Legal Guides | General Sources

Constitution

• 17 February 1976, Organic Law of Macau; Macau's future constitution, the "Basic Law", promulgated by China's National People's Congress on 31 March 1993, in effect 20 December 1999

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Executive

• Government of Macao
• Institute for Civic and Municipal Affairs of the Macau

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Judicial

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Legislative

• GLIN: Global Legal Information Network (Law Library of Congress) offers searchable English-language abstracts of laws, decrees and regulations. See Portugal for entries before the year 2000
• Cerimónia de Transferência de Poderes (Gabinete de Coordençao da Cerimónia de Transferência / The Macau Handover Ceremony Coordination Office) Includes - in Chinese, Portuguese and English - the relevant official handover documents of December 1999:
  • The Basic Law of The Macau Special Administrative Region of The People's Republic of China; see also copy at University of Macau
  • Joint Declaration of the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Republic of Portugal on the Question of Macau
• NATLEX (International Labour Organization) database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights; see China for current and Portugal for laws before 2000

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Legal Guides

• GUIDE: Multinational Reference (Law Library of Congress)
• Multinational Collections Database: Macau (Law Library of Congress) provides bibliographic information on materials in our reference collection
• AsianLII: Macau, China (Asian Legal Information Institute)
• World Legal Information Institute: Macau (WorldLII)
• World Legal Materials from Asia: Macau (Cornell Legal Information Institute)

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General Sources

• Country Study: Macau (Library of Congress) August 20, 1999
• Background Note: Macau (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Consular Information Sheet: Macau (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) (U.S. Dept. of State)
• Governments on the WWW: Macau (Gunnar Anzinger)
• Human Rights in Macao (Amnesty International)
• International Religious Freedom Annual Reports: China (U.S. Dept. of State) includes Macau
• World Factbook: Macau (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency)
• WWW DIRECTORIES / PORTALS: Macau (Google); Macau (Yahoo); WWW-VL Asian Studies: Macau (University of Redlands)

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Last Updated: 04/02/2008