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Old Grandfather Procedure Amendment 2026

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Old Grandfather Procedure Amendment 2026

Passed and signed on 20 January 2026.

Preamble

Whereas; Much has been said about the epidemic of SimIlliteracy amongst the Senatorial class;

Whereas; Hopefully this shall remedy the matter, and serve as effective “Herd Immunity” for the judiciary.


Article 1 - Amendments

§1. Part 6 of the Courtroom Procedures Act 2025 shall be amended to include a new Article 28, titled “Article 28 - Handling changes of Procedure”. The current Article 28 of the Courtroom Procedures Act 2025 shall be renumbered to Article 29.

§2. The new Article 28 of the Courtroom Procedures Act 2025 shall be amended to include the following section: 

“§1. If this Act is changed while any trial(s), pre-trial(s) - or any other hearing(s) that follow the procedures stated by this Act - are in progress, then those trial(s), pre-trial(s), or hearing(s) will proceed using the version of this Act that was in force when they began.”

§3. The new Article 28 of the Courtroom Procedures Act 2025 shall also be amended to include the following section: 

“§2. If the trial, pre-trial - or applicable hearing that follows the procedures stated by this Act - has been resumed after a time of four (4) weeks or longer, the presiding Judge(s) may use their discretion on whether to follow the version of this Act that was in force when it began, or the current version of this Act.”

§4. The new Article 28 of the Courtroom Procedures Act 2025 shall also be amended to include the following section: 

“§3. The effects of this Article shall come into force immediately upon becoming law. The effects of this Article shall also come into force retroactively, as of 20/01/26 22:05.”

Article 2 - Implementation

§1. When amending the new Article 28§3 into the Courtroom Procedures Act 2025, the date and time of this bill’s passage into law should be amended to the end of that section, replacing the text “[date/time here]”. This shall be in the format of DD/MM/YY, 24 hour time, and using the UTC timezone.

§2. All Judges shall be formally notified of the passage of this bill into law, by the Speaker of the Senate, in the #governmint-announcements channel on the SimDemocracy Discord. It is then up to the discretion of the Judges to inform relevant parties of the passage of this bill into law, and its effects.

Explanatory

This bill ensures that trials/pre-trials/hearings initiated under a version of the CPA continue using that version of the CPA, if a new version is passed during those.

There’s an exception in the case of trials/pre-trials/hearings that have been resumed after a long break, that allows the presiding Judge or Judges to exercise their discretion over if they’d like to use the CPA as it was at the start of that, or if they’d like to use the current CPA.


TL;DR

Trials and Trial-like things should (in most cases) use the procedures they were started with.