Bill 112.

Summary.

The bill amends Article 1 of Law 99 of December 23, 1998 to name the comarca of San BIas the comarca Gunayala. The proposed wording identifies the comarca of San BIas as having been created by Law 2 of 1938 and declared an Indigenous Reserve by Law 20 of 1957. The proposed change concerns the name by which Article 1 designates the comarca, while retaining in that article the references to its creation and its declaration as an Indigenous Reserve.

The bill then directs public and private institutions to use the name comarca Gunayala. It extends that designation to every legal provision, decree, resolution, text, or public or private document. The rule would therefore apply both to the documents of institutions and to the instruments and writings listed in the article, whether public or private. The name specified for those uses is the same name introduced into the proposed wording of Article 1 of Law 99 of December 23, 1998.

Article 3 again expressly identifies the amendment to Article 1 of Law 99 of December 23, 1998. It also provides for the repeal of any provision contrary to the proposed law. That repeal clause accompanies the change of name and the rule requiring use of comarca Gunayala in the instruments mentioned in the bill. The clause identifies the provisions to be repealed by reference to their inconsistency with the proposed law, without listing further provisions individually.

Finally, Article 4 provides that the law would take effect on the day after its promulgation. That provision sets the point from which the new designation in Article 1 and the use of comarca Gunayala by institutions and in public and private documents would apply. In the order of its articles, the bill addresses the amendment of the legal designation, use of the name in provisions and documents, repeal of contrary provisions, and commencement of the law.

The subject matter relates to public institutions that issue legal provisions, decrees, and resolutions, and to private institutions that prepare texts or documents identifying the comarca Gunayala. It may also concern people and organizations connected with the comarca and with references to the comarca of San BIas in public or private documents. The laws expressly referenced are Law 99 of December 23, 1998, Law 2 of 1938, and Law 20 of 1957; the place named in the proposed amended provision is the comarca of San BIas, which it would designate as the comarca Gunayala.