Foreign domestic legislation
Foreign domestic legislation relates to any reference to a legislative document (Act, Statute, Code, etc.) that is not an International Instrument, EU Legislation, UK Legislation, or US Legislation.
For UK, US and EU legislation, see the following pages: UK legislation US legislation EU legislation.
Care must be taken to distinguish foreign domestic legislation from International Instruments.
Foreign domestic legislation may be referred to in OUP law documents using acronyms, short titles or other key words. It is necessary to include the full title in the XML markup.
In most instances, references to Acts and Laws in a case report (or other OUP law content) whose jurisdiction is not the UK or USA, is to the acts and laws of that jurisdiction and therefore can be identified as foreign domestic legislation.
The jurisdiction of the case is therefore normally also the jurisdiction of the referenced legislation.
A case from one jurisdiction may refer to a piece of legislation from another. Care must be
taken to apply the correct jurisdiction code. For example, a reference to the French Civil
Code in a Madagascan case report must include country="FR" in the markup of
the reference.