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- Addressees of a provision or an Act
- Amend
- Amending Act
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- Article
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- Bill
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- Commencement
- Consistency, formal
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- 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
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- Enacting clause
- End-matter
- Entry into force
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- Front-matter
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- Implementing Act
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- Legislation
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- Legislation, secondary
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- Marginal, side or shoulder notes
- Modification
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- Normative provision
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- Sunset clause
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End-matter Date of application of modification

Entry into force

Becoming part of the legal system (the set of existing legal provisions). In the civil law tradition the entry into force of an Act is usually a certain time after its publication in order to guarantee a period of adaptation. This period is called vacatio legis.

End-matter Date of application of modification

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