The Office of Constitutional Revision
The Office keeps the text. It maintains the consolidated Constitution, drafts the official summary, keeps the table of cross-references, and reports each year on what in the Constitution contradicts itself, has failed, or has never been used.
Article 317(1): the Office maintains the consolidated version, drafts and corrects the official summary, maintains the table of cross-references, and reports upon the coherence of this Constitution.
Article 317(2): the Office is constituted as an oversight office under Title IX, and Article 234 to Article 243 apply to it, its pool comprising persons qualified in law, in drafting, in translation and in plain language.
Publications of the Office
The consolidated text
Every amendment in force, consolidated within thirty days, with the superseded versions and the dates between which each was in force.
The official summary
Of the Constitution as a whole and of every article, in plain and direct language, carrying no legal force.
The table of cross-references
Every reference from one article to another, with the failures reported each year.
The coherence report
Contradictions, failed cross-references, provisions never applied, and provisions the courts have found unclear.
The historic record
The history of the Republic and the repealed constitutions, held with their dates.
The public register
The register in which all of the above is published, free of charge and without account.
This year's coherence report
An annual public report is required upon contradictions between provisions, cross-references that have failed, provisions that have never been applied, and provisions that courts have found unclear. Six findings stand in the current report, one of them closed by a judgment of the Constitutional Court.
No charge
Article 314(4): no version, edition, translation or format is made subject to a charge.
Article 316(1): a printed copy of the Constitution, with the official summary, is furnished free of charge to every dwelling in the Republic, and to every person upon request.