COMARC/A Format for Authorities Data

PDFCOMARC/AOctober2022

243 Authorized access point – conventional name/title for legal and religious texts

This field contains the authorized access point for a conventional name/title for legal and religious texts of a prescriptive nature, issued under a given jurisdiction (usually a country) or a church. The authorized access points for legal and religious texts are usually formed by the name of the jurisdiction or church and the conventional title.

Subfields & repeatability

FIELD/SUBFIELDREPEATABILITY
243Authorized access point – conventional name/title for legal and religious textsnr
aEntry elementnr
tConventional titlenr
9Language of the base access pointnr

Indicators

INDICATORVALUEMEANING
1Not defined
2Form of name indicator
1Name entered under country or other geographical name
2Name entered under other form

Value "1" of the second indicator is used for jurisdictional geographical names.

Value "2" of the second indicator is used for church names.

SUBFIELDS

Subfield 9 is described in the Control Subfields chapter.

243a Entry element

The entry element of the name of jurisdiction, under which all laws and other legislation are issued. The subfield is mandatory.

243t Conventional title

Authorized form of a conventional title for the text being catalogued.

NOTES ON FIELD CONTENTS

The field contains the preferred form of a conventional name/title formulated in accordance with the national descriptive cataloguing rules or subject system.

RELATED FIELDS

443VARIANT ACCESS POINT – CONVENTIONAL NAME/TITLE FOR LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS TEXTS
543RELATED ACCESS POINT – CONVENTIONAL NAME/TITLE FOR LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS TEXTS
743AUTHORIZED ACCESS POINT IN OTHER LANGUAGE AND/OR SCRIPT – CONVENTIONAL NAME/TITLE FOR LEGAL AND RELIGIOUS TEXTS

EXAMPLES

  1. 243⊔1aPortugal tLeis, decretos, etc.
  2. *

    106⊔⊔a2
    243⊔1aFrancija tUstava (1791)
  3. *

    106⊔⊔a2
    243⊔1aLjubljana (Slovenija ; mestna občina) tStatuti