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The phrase "amended statute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a law or regulation that has been modified or updated.
Example: "The court ruled that the amended statute would take effect immediately, impacting all pending cases."
Alternatives: "revised law" or "modified regulation".
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The amended statute ties state recommendations on HIV testing to the CDC's "most current guidelines," but it explicitly rejects essential components of the recommendations, stating that the CDC's guidelines "shall in no event be interpreted or implemented in a manner inconsistent with the minimum informed consent standards of this [statute] [36]".
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Amendments of the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws are to be suggested in his message of next December, and the executive departments concerned are to be so reconstructed as to secure the effectual enforcement of the amended statutes.
The college lost no time in seeking royal favour again after Edward II's deposition, and Edward III confirmed his father's favour in February 1327, but the amended statutes remained in force with the Bishop of Lincoln as Visitor.
But the Human Rights Act lays down a fast track method for amending statutes judged incompatible with the European convention.
Rapidly amending statutes and regulations by the usual legislative and administrative processes is not feasible in an emergency; "flexibility" in this sense means the legal authority manifest in statutes and regulations must necessarily be nonspecific and allow for quick action by elected officials and public health leaders.
That ruling, in the Rasul case, simply interpreted the federal habeas corpus statute as it then existed, he says, before the Military Commissions Act amended the statute to withdraw jurisdiction.
"They even amended their statute in 1987, but they didn't change the amount".
On Jan.29, 2009, nine days after his inauguration, President Obama signed his first piece of legislation: the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, which amended the statute of limitations for filing an equal pay lawsuit.
In 1994, Congress amended the statute to permit an enhanced penalty if the offense involved the Medal of Honor.
The Zimmerman case sparked a debate on Stand Your Ground legislation that in 2005 amended the statute governing Florida's self-defense law.
After Texas amended its statute to allow the political party's state executive committee to set voting qualifications, Nixon sued again; in Nixon v. Condon (1932), the Court again found in his favor on the basis of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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