Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the public-law appeal against the cantonal statute was admissible and timely.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The appeal was admissible and filed in time because no cantonal review instance was available and the 30-day period ran from the law's official entry into force.
Extrahierte Begründung
A general normative act may be challenged directly; exhaustion was satisfied because the constitutional court mechanism was not yet in force. The filing on 29 June 2004 was timely after the law's entry into force on 1 September 2004.