Regulatory Legal Act as a Base Form of Implementing Exceptions in Law

Review. Law as a specific set of social norms performing the role of a social regulator needs exceptions in the same way as the rules themselves. Neglecting a diverse nature of social relations, facts, and human personality will ultimately lead to injustice. At the same time, exceptions in law must be set forth in a regulatory rule. An exception-norm is objectified in the outside real world in any meaningful legal form. In the legal system of Russia, with all its variety and specific character, the leading role belongs to such a form of law as a regulatory legal act (RLA). Therefore, the biggest part of exception norms finds their term in RLAs. Exception-norms are expressed in RLAs in different ways. Autonomous exception-RLAs may exist, although quite rarely. More often exception-norms are implemented in separate articles (provisions) of the RLA or in its structural elements: parts, titles, subtitles, paragraphs. Sometimes exception rules are given in notes or annexes to an RLA. A legislative reservation is the most commonly-used and convenient way of implementing an exception into the wording of an RLA. Despite certain difficulties, it is a reservation that is the most efficient way to combine a rule and an exception as a prescription of law. The acceptable synthesis of rules and exceptions that is achieved by means of a reservation allows a RLA to regulate social relations to the fullest extent.

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