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Finlex is a website that publishes information on judicial affairs of Finland. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The website is owned by the Ministry of Justice of Finland and operated by Edita Publishing Oy . [ 3 ] Finlex offers a collection of Finnish laws and decrees, judgments of Finnish courts, international treaties concluded by Finland and government bills ...
Acts of Parliament form the main body of the law. In the typical procedure, the Finnish Government proposes a bill to the Parliament of Finland.When the act is amended and approved by the Parliament, the act is submitted to the President of Finland for presidential assent.
Note: Since English is not an official language in Finland, the English translations of Finnish legislation at finlex.fi [2] are unofficial but used by the Finnish Ministry of Justice ^ Ministry of Justice.
The Supreme Court of Finland (Finnish: korkein oikeus [ˈkorkei̯n ˈoi̯keus], abbreviated as KKO; Swedish: högsta domstolen, abbreviated as HD), located in Helsinki, is the court of last resort for cases within the private law of Finland (that is, civil and criminal cases).
The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers a person's legal belonging to a country and is the common term used in international treaties when referring to members of a state; citizenship refers to the set of rights and duties a person has in that nation.
Finnish Immigration Service (abbreviated Migri, [1] Swedish: Migrationsverket, Finnish: Maahanmuuttovirasto) is an agency under the Ministry of the Interior that implements Finland's immigration policy and provides information services to support political decision-making as well as national and international cooperation. [2]
In Finland a rekisteröity yhdistys (Finnish for registered association) or registrerad förening (Swedish) is a registered, non-profit organization.The abbreviations ry (also ry.) [1] (Finnish), rf (Swedish) or rs (Northern Sámi) are used as a suffix ending of the association's name, added when the association is officially registered.
This article is a list of political parties in Finland, which includes Finland's national-level political parties and excludes local and provincial parties (such as the parties of Åland).