declaração de retificação
Published 4 November 2026, 18:37
declaração de retificação — declaration of correction
An official correction to a document already published in the Diário da República: the authority acknowledges an error in the text and says how the passage in question should read: "where it says this, read that". It introduces no new rules but corrects the text retroactively, from the date the original document was published.
Where you come across it. Diário da República, Series 1 and 2; in the legislation database it appears as a separate act referring to the one being corrected.
Reading the correction without the original document is pointless: the meaning only becomes clear when you read the two together. There is a time limit for such corrections, so an error spotted late is fixed with a new act rather than a declaration.
Official website: diariodarepublica.pt