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legislation

Product of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating law by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body; publication type

EntityQ49371

Also known as law · act · piece of legislation · legislative act · statute · 法案

Subclass of: statute
, legal act
, regulation
+1 more
Part of: statutory law

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Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body. Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to as "legislation" while it remains under consideration to distinguish it from other business. Legislation can have many purposes: to regulate, to authorize, to outlaw, to provide (funds), to sanction, to grant, to declare, or to restrict. It may be contrasted with a non-legislative act by an executive or administrative body under the authority of a legislative act.

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