| 单词 | sunset law |
| 释义 | > as lemmassunset law C5. attributive. Originally and chiefly North American. Designating legislation, or a legal or regulatory requirement, which stipulates that a programme, measure, agency, etc., be terminated or disbanded at the end of a fixed period unless formally renewed; esp. in sunset clause, sunset law, sunset provision. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [adjective] > terminating at fixed period sunset1974 1974 Corbin (Kentucky) Times-Tribune 14 July 8/2 Legislatures..have responded to the public's dissatisfaction with self-perpetuating programs by proposing sunset laws. 1982 Times 25 Feb. 7/8 It is not a wilderness protection Bill..but a wilderness sunset Bill, that would end wilderness protection. 1994 Amer. Spectator Oct. 85/3 Term limits, balanced budget amendments, sunset legislation, and the like are all worthy band aids. 2001 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 1/1 As a concession, he agreed to a ‘sunset clause’ so that the power to detain without trial would lapse after five years. 2016 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 28 Oct. 13 Clinton's top aides acknowledge she remains concerned with the nuclear deal's sunset provisions. < as lemmas |
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