Subsidiary law

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Ancillary laws are laws that supplement or modify another law that regulates a legal matter in fundamental respects. The subsidiary laws each deal with a special annex matter .

Germany

Criminal ancillary laws

In German criminal law , in addition to the basic criminal code, there are a number of “ancillary criminal laws”. These can contain their own catalog of penalties and fines, such as the Economic Criminal Law 1954 , or just specify provisions of the Criminal Code, such as the Subsidies Act . The individual "criminal law ancillary laws", which are classified in the reference list of the Federal Law Gazette under item 453, are often also included in ancillary criminal law as a whole.

Further subsidiary laws

Outside of criminal law, the term "ancillary law" is less common. However, laws in other areas of law can also have a secondary legal character. Thus, for example in private law , the Commercial Code as a special private law of merchants and thus as a by-law for the Civil Code to be understood. In turn, laws on transport law or securities law can be understood as subsidiary laws to the HGB .

In social law, some legal sources that supplement individual books of the codifying social code are also of secondary legal character, e.g. B. the Housing Allowance Act , the Federal Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act or the still valid provisions of the Reich Insurance Code .

Also introducing laws , such as the draft Law or EGGVG , feature alongside statutory regulation properties.