Almanac of law. Issue 15 (2024), pages 370–374.

DOI: 10.33663/2524-017X-2024-15-370-374

Okuniev I. S.
Compliance with the conditions of validity of legal acts as a criterion for their effectiveness

One of the main tasks of participants in law-making activities is to assess the effectiveness of adopted legal acts, their improvement and adaptation to the actual needs of a person, society, state. However, the lack of a clear understanding of the criteria for the effectiveness of legal acts and their content make it difficult for participants in law-making activities to perform these tasks. Among the criteria for the effectiveness of legal acts that are insufficiently studied in the modern doctrine of law is the observance of the conditions for the validity (validity) of these acts, which determines the relevance of its theoretical study.

The purpose of this article is to study the content and essence of the legal construction of “compliance with the conditions of force (validity) of legal acts” as a criterion for their effectiveness.

The question of determining the conditions of force (validity) of legal acts as a criterion of their effectiveness is investigated. Conceptual approaches to the definition of these conditions are analyzed on the example of various legal acts. On the basis of the results of scientific achievements and doctrinal provisions made in the field of legal acts, an attempt was made to determine the general conditions for the validity (validity) of legal acts. General requirements, the observance of which is necessary for the validity (validity) of any legal act, are that: the content of the legal act cannot contradict the Constitution and laws of Ukraine; the content of a legal act cannot contradict the interests of the state and society, its moral principles; the legal act must be adopted on the grounds provided for by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine; the legal act must be adopted (committed) within the powers (competence) provided by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine; the legal act must be adopted in the manner prescribed by the Constitution and laws of Ukraine; the legal act must be adopted in the form established by law; the will of the person (body) adopting the legal act must be free and correspond to his inner will; the legal act should be aimed at the real occurrence of legal consequences caused by it.

The problems of invalidity of legal acts and their effectiveness are quite closely related. Their relationship is that, as a rule, only a valid (valid) legal act can be effective. A legal act that is or is recognized as invalid does not give rise to any legal consequences. That is why, the criterion for the effectiveness of any legal act is compliance with the conditions of its validity (validity) when it is adopted.

Key words: legal acts, validity, reality, invalidity, conditions in force, conditions of reality.

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Igor Sergiyovych Okunyev,
Doctoral student of the Department of Theory of State and Law
of the V. M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law
of the NAS of Ukraine,
Candidate of Law
ORCID: 0009-0001-8133-1797