Macao Provisional Flag Law

At the "Imprensa Macau" web site, there is the document grants legal status to the flags of both Provisional Municipal Councils (órgăos municipais provisórios): Macau and Islands.

The law, is called: Regulamento Administrativo n° 6/1999, it was approved and published on December 20, 1990, and in effect from the same date. The articles and appendixes regarding the provisional municipal flags (article 16 and appendix XII) were abrogated by the "Regulamento Administrativo n° 32/2001" approved on 17-18 December, 2001 and in effect since January 1, 2002.

The 1999 Administrative rule states: http://www.imprensa.macau.gov.mo/bo/i/1999/01/regadm06.asp (look at the images at the bottom ot the page).

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(…) Artigo 16.° Bandeiras dos órgăos municipais provisórios 1. As bandeiras dos órgăos municipais provisórios de Macau e das Ilhas săo as constantes do Anexo XII ao presente regulamento administrativo. 2. Salvo disposiçăo em contrário, o prazo de utilizaçăo das bandeiras referidas no número anterior năo pode ultrapassar o dia 31 de Dezembro de 2001. (…)	(…) Article 16° Flags of the provisional municipal bodies 1. Flags of the provisional municipal bodies of Macau and the Islands are shown in the appendix XII attached to the present administrative regulation. 2. Except for disposals in the contrary, flags referred in the article before shall be used just until December 31, 2001.

The 2001 administrative regulation, as told above, abrogated both the article 16° and appendix XII, of the 1999 regulations in the following terms:

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(…) Artigo 45.° Logotipo 1. O logotipo do IACM é aprovado por ordem executiva. 2. (…) Artigo 46.° Revogaçőes Săo revogados: 1) O Anexo IX ao Regulamento Administrativo n.° 6/1999, referido no respectivo n.° 1 do artigo 13.°, na parte em que se refere aos logotipos da Câmara Municipal de Macau Provisória e da Câmara Municipal das Ilhas Provisória; 2) O artigo 16.° do Regulamento Administrativo n.° 6/1999 e o Anexo XII, nele referido; 3) (…).

(…) Article 45° Logotype 1. The logotype of the IACM [Institute for Civic and Municipal Affairs] shall be approved by executive order. 2. (…) Article 46° Shall be abrogated: 1. The Appendix IX of the "Regulamento Administrativo n°6/1999", referred in the number 1 of the article 13°, in the part regarding to the logotypes of the Provisional Municipal Council of Macau and the Provisional Municipal Council of the Islands. 2. The article 16° of the "Regulamento Administrativo n°6/1999", and the Appendix XII. 3. (…)

Manuel Gabino, 23 January 2006