Now comes His Majesty The Emperor, SIDNEY IV, with his Court of Lords
assembled, to proclaim as follows.

WHEREAS the Government of His Majesty possesses large amounts of duly and
        lawfully gathered information, and

WHEREAS it is in the interest of His Majesty to convey said information to
        his subjects as well as foreign citizens, and

WHEREAS for said conveyance to be effective, the form and manner of
        presentation is of the utmost importance,

Emperor SIDNEY IV hereby proclaims and enacts the

        INFORMATION MODERNISATION ACT 2004

for publication in Chapter 1 of the Royal Code of Laws.


Let it be recorded:

    Section 1.  Citation.

        This Act shall be cited as 1 RCLP or as the Information
        Modernisation Act 2004.

    Section 2.  Information of His Majesty's Government.

        `Information' shall be all information gathered and required
        by the Government in order to more properly rule, maintain, and
        educate His Majesty's subjects and foreign citizens in all affairs
        of The Empire.

    Section 3.  Standards of Publication.

        (1) All Information published by agents of the Government shall
            be in a form befitting the purpose of publication and of
            the grace of His Majesty.
        (2) Information published on the public Internet shall comply with
            the present web standards (or at the publisher's option, later
            versions thereof), specifically:
                (a) XHTML 1.1,
                (b) CSS 2, and
                (c) WAI-AAA WCAG 1.0.

    Section 4.  Enactment.

	    This Act shall take effect immediately.

Upon this duly recorded Act now read before my Court of Lords, I set my
hand thereto and order that the Royal Seal be affixed thereupon.

PROCLAIMED AND ENACTED THIS 1 JANUARY 2004.

(signed)
SIDNEY IV