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A
- Addressees of a provision or an Act
- Amend
- Amending Act
- Amendment
- Article
B
- Basic-unit
- Bill
C
- Commencement
- Consistency, formal
D
- Date of application of modification
- Date of assent or Date of enactment
- Date of entry into efficacy
- Date of entry into force
- Date of publication
- Definition unit
E
- Enacting clause
- End-matter
- Entry into force
F
- Front-matter
G
H
I
- Implementing Act
- Interpretation section
J
K
L
- Legislation
- Legislation, primary
- Legislation, secondary
- Legislative Act or Act
- Legislature
M
- Marginal, side or shoulder notes
- Modification
N
- Normative provision
- Normative reference
O
P
- Provision
- Purpose clause
Q
R
- Recitals
- Reference, Circular
- Reference, Dynamic
- Reference, External
- Reference, Internal
- Reference, Relative
- Reference, Serial
- Reference, Static
- Repeal
- Retroactive norm
S
- Section
- Short title
- Since-then (ex-tunc)
- Since-then (ex-tunc) amendments
- Statements of purpose
- Sunset clause
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Amendment Basic-unit

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This term is used in certain legal traditions to indicate the basic component of an Act. Here we use the term “basic-unit”. (See “basic-unit”.)

Amendment Basic-unit

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