Decepticon Registration Act

The Decepticon Registration Act required Decepticons to register.

Fiction

2005 IDW continuity

The Decepticon Registration Act was put in place by Senator Proteus as a response to the rapid growth of the Decepticon movement just before the war, and came with a promise that if 10,000 Decepticons willingly registered themselves under the Act, the Senate would recognize them as a formal political party. It failed to get off the ground as most Decepticons didn't trust their intentions and instead began protesting against the D.R.A., calling it an arbitrary method of recognizing them that only served as a distraction. This was unfortunate for the Senate, who had been planning on brainwashing all those who registered into docile members of society, causing Proteus to hatch a nefarious plan to boost the Decepticons' trust in the Senate in order to gather more registrants. Patternism

In the end, Proteus' plans fell through and he gave up on the registration idea without going through with his promise. Once Zeta Prime took charge of the government, he brought back the Decepticon Registration Act with a twist: this time registration was compulsory. An Intimate Beheading This sparked new anti-D.R.A. riots during which Ironfist witnessed the Decepticon insignia for the first time in his life—three days later, Zeta Prime was assassinated. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4

This gets contradicted by "Autocracy", where there's open war more than three days before Zeta is killed.

The AllSpark Almanac

The Decepticon Registration Act was enacted by Ultra Magnus in the boiling tensions that led to the Great War. It had its detractors, including Mirage. The AllSpark Almanac II