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Statutory Instruments (Regulations)

Statutory Instrument
2021, No. 9

RMB Moderation Regulations 2021​

Made 11 February 2021 00.58 GMT+1
Coming into force immediately

The Moderation Committee, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(a) of the RMB Moderation Act 2019, makes the following regulations,
  1. These regulations may be cited as the RMB Regulations 2021. These regulations shall come into force immediately. RMB Moderation Regulations 2020, also known as RMB Regulations 2020, are repealed.

  2. Posters shall refrain from making:

    1. Triple posts. three posts in a row;

    2. Roleplay. posts which make an attempt at roleplay or make declarations in an in-character perspective;

    3. Hate speech. posts utilising derogatory language on individuals on account of characteristics such as, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, and disabled status;

    4. Threats. posts which contain threats of violence or violent acts against anyone or any nation;

    5. Defamation. defamatory posts;

    6. Malicious links. posts containing links to inappropriate, gruesome, or illegal contents;

    7. Sensitive content. posts expressing apology or jokes about the following and the persons who committed the following: genocides, mass-murders, and other atrocities;

    8. Quote editing. posts editing a quotation with offensive or malicious intentions;

    9. Spam. posts whose contents are meaningless and unsolicited;

    10. Flaming. posts aggressively insulting, swearing at or verbally abusing another person on the board;

    11. Sexual contents. posts containing sexting, sexual role-play, or other communications of a sexual nature;

    12. Recruitment. posts advertising regions; or

    13. Offense solicitation. posts which prompt, incite or further any kind of behaviour prohibited in these regulations.

  3. Defamation definition. For the purposes of these regulations, a 'defamatory post' is a post which constitutes defamation.

    1. Defamation is an (1) unproven statement of fact (2) made to a third party that (3) damages a person's reputation (4) in a way which would more than non-trivially lower one's estimation of or deter third parties from engaging with that person.

    2. 'Statement of fact' means a statement that can be falsified in a European court.

    3. Defamation does not include, however, statements which are:

      1. made in good faith and under a reasonable assumption of veracity,

      2. mere vulgar abuse,

      3. made with honest belief in their truth on a matter of public interest, so long as a reasonable person could believe such statements,

      4. made with the consent of the person being described, or

      5. disseminated without knowledge of the statement or without reason to believe that the statement is defamatory.

    4. Claims of defamation must be made within 20 days between the initial making of the defamatory statement and the origination of a claim against the maker.
 
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Statutory Instrument
2021, No. 11

Event (Sponsorships) Regulations 2021​

Made 15 February 2021 8:20 GMT–5​
Coming into force immediately​

The Delegate, in exercise of executive discretion, makes the following regulations and issues them in the form of statutory instrument pursuant to section 3 of the Statutory Instruments Act 2017:
  1. These regulations may be cited as the Event (Sponsorships) Regulations 2021 and come into force immediately.

  2. To have an event officially sponsored:

    1. The host nation must have been resident in Europe for at least 30 days.

    2. The event must be open to European residents, provide an expected start and end dates, a clear set of rules, and disclose the nations organising it.

    3. The event must not have explicit sexual contents of any nature; express racist, fascist, homophobic or other undesirable beliefs; or prevent people from participating without a reason justifiable by the event's rules.

  3. The sponsorship of the event may be revoked if any of the requirements specified in this regulations are found to have been violated or if the behaviour of the host nation or any of the event organisers damages or would likely damage the reputation of the region.
 
Statutory Instrument
2021, No. 30

Voting (Security Council) Regulations 2021​

Made 10 October 2021​
Coming into force immediately​

Whereas the Delegate has power to vote discretionarily in Security Council under section 3 of the Foreign Policy (World Assembly) Act 2018:

And whereas the Delegate believes that a clear statement of voting policy would best preserve the spirit of European neutrality:

The Delegate, in exercise of executive discretion, makes the following regulations and issues them in the form of statutory instrument pursuant to section 3 of the Statutory Instruments Act 2017:
  1. These regulations may be cited as the Voting (Security Council) Regulations 2021 and come into force immediately.

  2. Except as where is authorised by statute, the Delegate shall vote on Security Council proposals, if ever, only at either the direction recommended by voting WA members in Europe after approximately two days have elapsed or the recommendation of the Cabinet or the Founder.

  3. Nothing in this regulation shall be construed to derogate from powers granted or exercisable under primary legislation.
 
Statutory Instrument
2025, No. 18

Election Regulations 2025​

Made 3 October 2025 22.48 EDT
Coming into force immediately​

The European Council, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(a) of the Commission (Elections) Act 2020, makes the following regulations,
  1. These regulations may be cited as the Election Regulations 2025. These regulations shall come into force immediately. The Election Regulations 2020 are repealed.

  2. "Scheduled election date" shall mean dates at which elections are scheduled by section 5(b) of the Commission (Elections) Act 2019. In these regulations, the words "forum post" shall mean a post to Europe's NationStates subforum in a specially created election disclosures thread.

  3. Candidates shall be required to disclose via regional message board post, their account on Europe's Discord and a link to their forum account by the scheduled election date.

  4. All candidates shall be required to disclose via forum post, by the scheduled election date:—

    1. previous involvement in other regions, including former positions, terms, and the names of nations which held those positions;

    2. any involvement in military operations in NationStates, the organisations with which they were involved;

    3. previous authorship of World Assembly resolutions (including failed resolutions), authorship of NationStates Issues, and other NationStates-wide engagements; and

    4. their account of Europe's Discord.

  5. Candidates and their affiliates, when sending campaign telegrams related to elections to the Commission, shall not send such telegrams to non-electors.

This is not part of the regulations. The only change made here was to include disclosure of Discord accounts on the forum.
 
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