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6. Assessment of legal acts
The obligation to issue opinions about legal acts, both applicable legal acts
and draft legislation, by the entity acting as a national preventive mechanism stems
from Article 19(c) of the OPCAT.
In 2014, the representatives of the NPM received 12 draft legal acts for assessment and proposed amendments to the following six legal acts:
• assumptions for the draft Act amending the Juvenile Justice Act;
• Ordinance of the Minister of Health on the National Centre for the Prevention of Dissocial Behaviour;
• Ordinance of the Minister of Health on the manner of documentation of
coercive action;
• Act amending the Act – Penal Code and certain other acts;
• assumptions for the draft Act on video surveillance;
• Ordinance of the Minister of Health amending the Ordinance on detailed
rules for referring, admitting, transferring, releasing and holding juveniles
in public health care facilities.
All opinions on draft legal acts were published on the website of the Human
Rights Defender in the “National Preventive Mechanism” tab.
Furthermore, a representative of the National Preventive Mechanism Department attended a meeting of the Senate Committee on Human Rights, Rule of
Law and Petitions on 23 September 2014, during which amendments to the draft
Act amending the Act – Executive Penal Code (Senate paper No 706), were discussed.
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