The phrase "amendments in effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to changes or modifications that are currently active or applicable in a particular context, such as laws or regulations.
Example: "The amendments in effect will significantly alter the way we approach environmental regulations."
Alternatives: "active amendments" or "current amendments".
"The amendments would in effect give a preference to European companies over American companies, even though American companies have demonstrated the same commitment to improving worker safety in Bangladesh," the letter stated.
One amendment would in effect give the State Legislature line-by-line veto power over every detail of a comprehensive restoration plan expected later this year from the Army Corps of Engineers.
The Bush team was furious, pointing out that this "killer" amendment in effect emasculated the entire fast-track bill.
In fact, requesting a split vote on an amendment is in effect tabling a new amendment, i.e. tabling an amendment on an amendment.
Buoyed by record oil income in 2008, Mr Bouteflika boosted infrastructure spending, reversed tentative steps to free the economy and secured constitutional amendments that, in effect, granted him the presidency for life.Last year Mr Bouteflika restricted imports, hurting some well-connected businessmen.
In the face of fierce public criticism, the two peers took the unusual step of amending their amendment but in the bill's third reading in the House of Lords on Monday their amendment was in effect removed from the final bill.
The Fourteenth Amendment was in effect the Republican leadership's response to emancipation.
"This amendment is, in effect, a provision to prevent the abuse of the right to establish such funds by collective bargaining, pending further study of the whole problem.
In the film, two of Connecticut's representatives are shown voting against the 13th Amendment – voting, in effect, for slavery to continue.
The emergence of a hypersecretive ethic in national politics coincided with the very public erosion of Fourth Amendment protections — in effect transferring the right to privacy from individuals to government itself.
But Lord Bassam of Brighton, Labour's chief whip in the Lords, has tabled amendments that would, in effect, exempt families with children by imposing on councils in England a duty to grant a tenancy for the length of time that any child in the home is in full-time education.
