The phrase "a draft statute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a preliminary version of a law or legal document that is still subject to revision or approval.
Example: "The committee reviewed a draft statute before presenting it to the legislative assembly for consideration."
Alternatives: "a proposed law" or "a preliminary bill".
In the autumn of 1871, Levski and Angel Kanchev published the Instruction of the Workers for the Liberation of the Bulgarian People, a BRCC draft statute containing ideological, organisational and penal sections.
Unfortunately, in the ongoing negotiations on the draft statute for such a court, the Clinton Administration seeks to preserve a Security Council veto over the prosecutor's docket and to deny the prosecutor the authority to initiate investigations without a Security Council or state complaint.
In a 1964 panel discussion regarding the draft statute, Abe Goldman, the Copyright Office's General Counsel, left no doubt about the meaning of §44(a).
In the article supporting the draft statute, Harlow argues that "a corporation may be directly responsible for the deaths of the employees, consumers, and members of the general public with whom it interacts".
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief except for people like Sen. Johnson, for whom "the story that a lawless president might try to rescue an undeserving Congress from a poorly drafted statute was irresistible," in the words of Nicholas Bagley of the University of Michigan. .
Moreover, the "complementarity" principle in the draft statute insures that effective prosecutions within a functioning national legal system like ours will not be overridden by the court.
This was confirmed to me by his minister of justice, who is working on the draft statute.
This agreement was particularly evident in regard to the draft statute o the Free Territory of Trieste.
The principle that the international court should complement, not supplant, national courts is key to the draft statute and is not in dispute in the United Nations negotiations.
The draft statute is also ambiguous about the legal test to be applied: whether the reporting must objectively be in the public interest or whether it is sufficient for the journalist to reasonably believe it to be so.
