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Date Published: 21/04/2023

ARCHIVED - Spain was a lawless state for about 20 minutes this week

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The Official State Bulletin accidentally announced that the Spanish Constitution, the Penal Code and other basic laws had been repealed

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Spain was a lawless state for about 20 minutes this week

Spain’s Official State Gazette (Boletín Oficial del Estado or BOE) repealed the Spanish Constitution and other basic laws for about 20 minutes yesterday morning, Thursday April 20, by accident.

A glitch in the system meant the words “disposición derogada” or ‘repealed provision’ to be published next to such laws as the Criminal Code, the Civil Code, the Civil Procedure Act, the General Social Security Act, the Public Sector Legal Regime Act, the revised text of the Bankruptcy Act, the Law regulating social jurisdiction and the revised text of the Workers’ Statute.

Of course, just because it stated this on the website, doesn’t mean it was legally binding, and in reality all the affected laws and the constitution were still in force.

The error was detected this morning, at 9am by the company Iberley, which handles the legal database for labour, tax and accounting consultation.

Ángel Gandoy, commercial director of the company, acknowledged that the organisation cannot afford this type of incident. “We found that the main rules of the legal regulations had been repealed. We think it was a computer error, but a very serious one. The truth is that the BOE cannot afford such errors.”

The error has now been fixed and law and order restored.

Image: BOE / Iberley

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