INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL PROVISIONS

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summary. The author examines concepts, views, goals and ways of interpreting the law, and gives the definition and implementation of the rules of interpretation regulations. Provides that the interpretation of the law refers to activities aimed at establishing their content, to the disclosure of the will ruling social forces expressed in them. Special attention is given to the judicial interpretation and its role in ensuring the consistency of enforcement, as well as the problem of interaction of legislation and judicial practice. Keywords: interpreting the law, judicial interpretation, judicial practice, legislation, consistency of enforcement, interpretation regulations. 1. Concept of the interpretation of legal provisions ТInterpretation of the law means realising and explaining it. Reasons for interpreting legal rules are various: a need for uniformity in the application of the same law by different people; the complexity and ambiguity of regulations; and contradictions between laws and other features of legislative texts. Shortcomings in legislation and defects in texts are also reasons for interpretation.The interpretation of legal provisions has to serve the purpose of a correct and uniform understanding and application of the law, and of identifying the essence of what is contained in the legislator’s verbal formulation.Interpretation is necessary to promote identification of the exact sense of legal provisions.Interpretation combines clarifying (for the interpreter) and explaining (for others) the sense of a law. Clarification and explanation are interconnected parts of the process of the interpretation of the law. Interpretation can begin as clarification but move on to explanation. The person who carries out the interpretation is called an interpreter.Interpretation of the law involves the process of thinking in order to establish the content of legal provisions, by finding out the meaning and sense of terms and expressions (the signs of a natural language) contained in regulations. Interpretation is an internal process of clarification that does not go beyond the consciousness of the interpreter. This characterises the gnoseological (informative) nature of interpretation. Clarifying legal provisions requires creative, intellectual and determined activity by the interpreter. The effect of the realization of the interpretation depends in many respects on the correctness, completeness