Chapter 18: Regulations Governing this Code


Article 86. Effective date and force of the Code.

86.1. Effective date. This (the fourth) edition of the Code comes into force on 1 January 2000.

86.2. Force of texts. The English and French texts of the Code are official texts and are equivalent in force, meaning and authority (see also Article 87).

86.3. Force of previous Rules and Codes. The rules governing zoological nomenclature contained in former editions of the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature and of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, and any amendments affecting the Code, have no force unless reaffirmed in this edition, and then only as herein expressed.

Recommendation 86A. New names and type fixations submitted for publication during 1999. To avoid proposals of new names or fixations of name-bearing types being invalid as a consequence of not being published before 1 January 2000 (when this edition of the Code comes into force), authors and editors of works submitted during 1999 are advised to ensure that the works will meet the requirements of this edition.


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FranciscoWelterSchultes   Art. 86.2
This is a good rule and has been useful for solving numerous problems (for example nomenclatural problems raised in the iczn-list mailing list) where the English and the French texts differed from each others, and where the French text was extremely helpful because it was either less ambiguous, or differed from the literal meaning of the English text and conformed more with the general intention of the Code. I would not recommend to replace 86.2 by a rule following which the English text should be superior to the French text.
2008-12-02 15:47:25

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