Search Results pay_legislation_rules_insert

Overview

APPS.PAY_LEGISLATION_RULES_PKG is a PL/SQL package belonging to the Oracle Payroll (PAY) schema, delivered under the Oracle E-Business Suite application layer. Its stated purpose, as recorded in the package header, is to provide the procedures required "for check to pay_legislation_rules." In practical terms, the package encapsulates logic that validates and tests legislation rule definitions against a supplied rule type, allowing calling code to determine whether a payroll legislation rule is satisfied or applicable before that rule is relied upon by downstream payroll processing.

The package is a long-standing component of the Payroll legislative framework. The header comment block records a creation date of 19-May-1999 by T.Battoo, with the initial version documented as 115.0 on 14-MAR-2001 and a follow-up change adding dbdrv lines on 21-DEC-2001. The header file itself, pylegrul.pkh, carries the identifier 120.0.12010000.1, indicating the object was carried forward into the 12.1.1 release line and remains present in 12.2.2 with no functional revisions of note. In the ETRM repository for 12.2.2 the package is owned by APPS and is classified as OTHER, meaning it is not exposed as a public, supported API but is instead an internal building block used by Oracle's own payroll code.

Key Procedures and Functions

• check_leg_rule — A function that accepts a rule type and returns a Boolean result. Its name and the package description indicate that it performs a check against the pay_legislation_rules definition for the supplied rule type, returning TRUE when the rule condition is met and FALSE otherwise. No parameter list beyond the single rule_type argument is documented, and the function has no documented output parameters; any additional behavior is internal to the package body and is not part of the recorded interface.

The header contains no further callable units. Because the package body is not reproduced in the ETRM excerpt, no additional procedures, private helpers, or exception handlers can be described with confidence.

Tables Accessed

The ETRM metadata for this object does not enumerate any tables referenced through APPS synonyms. Given the package description and function name, the operative data source is the PAY_LEGISLATION_RULES table (and, where relevant, the associated legislation rule and legislation code definitions) within the Payroll schema. The function reads these rows to evaluate whether a rule of the supplied type applies. No documented insert, update, or delete activity is recorded, consistent with a read-only validation utility. Any additional tables touched by the package body would be reached through APPS synonyms and are not listed in the available metadata.

Usage Notes

The package is referenced by one other package, which calls into check_leg_rule as part of its own payroll processing logic. It is intended to be invoked from PL/SQL — from Oracle Forms, from concurrent program logic, or from other payroll packages — rather than being exposed to end users directly.

Because the package is classified as OTHER and is not a documented public API, customers and partners should treat it as internal and subject to change between releases. Custom code that depends on check_leg_rule should be reviewed at each upgrade, particularly across the 12.1.1 to 12.2.2 transition, and should not assume a stable signature beyond the documented single rule_type argument and Boolean return. Where equivalent legislative validation is required in extension code, calling the supported payroll APIs in preference to this internal function is the safer design.