Enactment may refer to:
Law
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Enactment of a bill
A bill is proposed legislation under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature as well as, in most cases, approved by the executive. Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an '' ...
, when a bill becomes law
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Enacting formula
An enacting clause is a short phrase that introduces the main provisions of a law enacted by a legislature. It is also called enacting formula or enacting words. It usually declares the source from which the law claims to derive its authority. In ...
, formulaic words in a bill or act which introduce its provisions
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Enactment (British legal term) In the law of the United Kingdom, the term enactment may refer to the whole or part of a piece of legislation or to the whole or part of a legal instrument made under a piece of legislation. In ''Wakefield Light Railways Company v Wakefield Corporat ...
, a piece of legislation or a legal instrument made under a piece of legislation
Other
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Enactment (psychology) In relational psychoanalysis, the term enactment is used to describe the non-reflecting playing out of a mental scenario, rather than verbally describing the associated thoughts and feelings.
The term enactment was first introduced by Theodore Jaco ...
, in relational psychoanalysis, a playing out of a mental scenario
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Enactment effect The enactment effect, also called self-performed task effect (SPT effect) Cohen, RL (1981) "On the generality of some memory laws". ''Scandinavian Journal of Psychology'', 22:267-281. is a term that was created in the early 80's to describe the fact ...
, in linguistics, in which verb phrases are better memorized if a learner performs the described action while learning the phrase
See also
*Other steps after enactment of a bill
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Promulgation
Promulgation is the formal proclamation or the declaration that a new statutory or administrative law is enacted after its final approval. In some jurisdictions, this additional step is necessary before the law can take effect.
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, the formal proclamation that a new law is enacted after its final approval
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Coming into force
In law, coming into force or entry into force (also called commencement) is the process by which legislation, regulations, treaties and other legal instruments come to have legal force and effect. The term is closely related to the date of this t ...
, the process by which legal instruments come to have legal force and effect
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Reenactment (disambiguation)
Reenactment or re-enactment may refer to:
Legislation
* Consolidation bill, a bill that consolidates several Acts of Parliament into a single Act in the United Kingdom
* Repeal with reenactment, where a law is replaced with one more suitable
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