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  2. Codification (law) - Wikipedia

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    Rules and regulations that are promulgated by agencies of the Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government are published in the Federal Register and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations. These regulations are authorized by specific legislation passed by the legislative branch, and generally have the same force as statutory law.

  3. Abortion law - Wikipedia

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    Abortion has existed since ancient times, with natural abortifacients being found amongst a wide variety of tribal people and in most written sources. The earliest known records of abortion techniques and general reproductive regulation date as far back as 2700 BC in China, and 1550 BC in Egypt. [5]

  4. Law - Wikipedia

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    In The Concept of Law, H. L. A. Hart argued that law is a "system of rules"; [35] John Austin said law was "the command of a sovereign, backed by the threat of a sanction"; [36] Ronald Dworkin describes law as an "interpretive concept" to achieve justice in his text titled Law's Empire; [37] and Joseph Raz argues law is an "authority" to ...

  5. Copyright law of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The publisher of any publication in Ireland must deliver within one month of publication copies of the work to the National Library of Ireland, the British Library, and the libraries of Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University, the University of Limerick, and of the four constituent universities of the National University of Ireland; these nine bodies do not need to request such copies.

  6. United States administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."

  7. Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment ...

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    It is an important part of UK labour law, protecting employees whose business is being transferred to another business. [3] The 2006 regulations replace the old 1981 regulations (SI 1981/1794) which implemented the original Directive. [4] The law has been amended in 2014 and 2018, and various provisions within the 2006 Regulations have altered. [5]

  8. Censorship in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    In due course, regulations regarding censorship in the UK are indirectly enabled in Ireland. In terms of press freedom, Ireland is noted highly on the Press Freedom Index. The country is ranked Good over the last five years, and is currently in 2024 ranked eighth. [3]

  9. Penal laws (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    In Ireland, the penal laws (Irish: Na Péindlíthe) were a series of legal disabilities imposed in the seventeenth, and early eighteenth, centuries on the kingdom's Roman Catholic majority and, to a lesser degree, on Protestant "Dissenters".