Interpretation of law as a special legal form of state bodies activity: concepts, signs, types

Abstract

The Paper provides a general theoretical description of the interpretation of law as a special legal form of activity of state bodies, in particular, its concepts, features and types are revealed. It was noted that in the activities of the competent state bodies, the official interpretation receives a legal form.
 Interpretive legal form is a complex, multifaceted, penetrating all basic forms of creation and implementation of law, the work of competent public authorities and their officials to clarify and explain the content and goals of legal norms. It is characterized by general features of legal forms of activity, including: regulation by material and procedural rules of law, the ability to lead to legally significant consequences, connection with the consideration of legal cases, limitation and specificity of the subject composition, legal manipulation nature, formality (documentation).
 For the vast majority of public authorities, regardless of belonging to one or another subsystem, the interpretive form of activity is not the main one, and even more so, a prerogative. Rather, it is given an auxiliary, secondary role to ensure the optimal functioning of this body in conditions of legal certainty. It is actually an authentic normative interpretation, when the content of the norm is interpreted by the body that established it, that is, the author of the norm. In this case, interpretative powers are derived from normative ones. However, for some public authorities, interpretation activity is one of the priority legal forms; in this case, we are talking about a legal normative interpretation.
 Like other legal forms of state activity, the interpretive form has a procedural nature. Intellectual-volitional actions, taking into account the sequential nature of their implementation, can be divided into the stage of official interpretation. At the same time, a significant similarity between the stages of law-making and the stages of interpretation of legal norms was noted. The normative basis of legal interpretation activity needs significant improvement and detailing in order to avoid misunderstandings and abuses during its implementation.