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enactment

noun act, bill, charter, codification, dictate, edict, establishment, fiat, law, legislation, lex, measure, ordinance, plebiscitum, regulation, rule, ruling, statute, statutory law
Foreign phrases: Leges suum ligent latorem.Laws should bind their own proposer. Jus constitui oportet in his quae ut plurimum accidunt non quae ex inopi nato. Laws ought to be made with a view to those cases which occur most frequently, and not to those which are of rare or acciiental occurrence. Leges figendi et refigendi consuetudo est periculosissima. The practice of making and remaking the laws is a most dangerous one. Quod populus postremum jussit, id jus ratum esto. What the people have last enacted, let that be the settled law.

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'In the second phase we will be implementing our own fisheries enactment - Sabah doesn't have our own fisheries enactment and the federal government is the one calling the shots.

Sabah govt to ban fishing trawlers in bid to protect environment

Enactment of a law is a rare phenomenon and is the work of Parliament and State Legislature."

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The researchers observed small changes in nonmedical prescription opioid use prevalence after medical marijuana law enactment (4.32 to 4.86 percent; adjusted odds ratio, 1.13; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.06 to 1.20).

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Prior to its enactment, the bill hurdled the third and final reading at the Senate in February 2019, with all 18 senators present voting for its passage.

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5.4 million jobs were created since January 2017, with more than half of that job creation occurring since the enactment of tax reform.

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He said that the Parliament will become strengthen and process of enactment of effective legislation will possible with the formation of Standing Committees.

Opposition assures Speaker NA its cooperation in enactment of legislation

He said the Parliament would become strengthen and process of enactment of effective legislation would be possible with the formation of standing committees.

NA speaker for bipartisan role for enactment of effective legislation

He said that Standing Committees were the important components of the Parliament and their early completion was necessary for prompt enactment of legislation.

Speaker stresses need for legislation on national issues

He said that the standing committees were important components of the Parliament and their early completion was necessary for prompt enactment of legislation.

NA Speaker stresses need for legislation on important national issues

The judges had taken up an application seeking contempt of the court's order proceedings against CM Murad Ali Shah and Chief Secretary Muhammad Rizwan Memon for allegedly failing to implement the court's earlier orders for the enactment of rules regarding the transfers, postings and tenures in the police force.

SHC seeks detailed reply on contempt of court plea against CM, chief secretary

Earlier, the Constitution said a President was elected for a term of six years but it has been restricted to five years after the enactment of the 19th Amendment.

President seeks SC determination on expiry date of his term of office

" "The key words are 'lump sums' and 'post enactment identification.' It means that there is simply a lump sum allocated and the legislator takes part in the execution of the budget after (post) its enactment by identifying the projects for which such lump sum shall be used.