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Sunset provisions have been used extensively throughout legal history. [2] The idea of general sunset provisions was discussed extensively in the late 1970s. [3] Sunset clauses with an effective extension review process have been argued as a safeguard of democracy to ensure emergency provisions, such as state of emergency, remain temporary. [4]
Clauses limiting the duration of such laws are often called "sunset" clauses. [ 1 ] Temporary laws are commonly given temporal validity by the inclusion of an expiration date at which the law ceases to be in effect unless it is extended.
The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution of 1996; and in South Africa's first non-racial elections in 1994, won by the African National Congress (ANC) liberation movement.
He became known for proposing the "sunset clauses" covering the 5 years following a democratic election, including guarantees and concessions to all sides, [1] and his fierce non-racialist stance. After the elections of 1994, he became Minister for Housing in Nelson Mandela 's government.
(The Center Square) – Despite recently proposing her own, Mayor Lisa Brown is asking the Spokane City Council to claw back a sunset clause on former Mayor Nadine Woodward’s temporary tax increase.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunset_clause&oldid=19382819"This page was last edited on 22 July 2005, at 16:41 (UTC). (UTC).
The Umstead Coalition sued the Department of Environmental Quality for changing a single word from Wake Stone Corp.’s permit to mine next to Umstead State Park.
This title has 25 sections, with one of the sections (section 224) containing a sunset clause which sets an expiration date, of 31 December 2005, for most of the title's provisions. On 22 December 2005, the sunset clause expiration date was extended to 3 February 2006. Title II contains many of the most contentious provisions of the act.