The phrase "automatically grandfathered" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or regulatory contexts to indicate that certain individuals or entities are exempt from new rules or changes due to their prior status or involvement.
Example: "Those who had already registered before the new regulations were implemented are automatically grandfathered and will not be affected by the changes."
Alternatives: "inherently exempt" or "automatically included".
(Area that was part of a 1990 UA has not been automatically grandfathered into the 2000 UA). In addition, some areas that were identified as UAs for the 1990 census have been reclassified as urban clusters.
"It wasn't automatically grandfathered in.
When Congress passed TSCA in 1976, the law automatically grandfathered in 62,000 chemicals of the 84,000 chemicals registered for use, meaning chemical companies could keep selling them without testing them for safety.
But on the other hand, legislation did not automatically grandfather real estate agents or brokers who have been doing appraisals to become certified.
"To automatically grandfather in all that land -- about a quarter of the remaining undeveloped land in the state -- without any kind of environmental review basically guts the rule," said Jeff Tittel, the director of the state chapter of the Sierra Club.
Custody of children, for example, is automatically granted to fathers and grandfathers, and provision is made for minors to marry, although a later amendment set the age of marriage to the same as Afghan civil law.
The bill also enumerated familial relationships in which civil unions would be automatically nullified, such as a man with his father, grandfather, or son, or a woman with her mother, grandmother, or daughter.
"My grandfather had designed three of them, so he automatically got the job," Hudson said.
"It won't grow automatically," he says of Scott-Heron's legacy, which he likens to that of his grandfather.
We no longer automatically heed someone's directive or request because they are CEO or because their father and grandfather were rulers; we respond to leaders because we trust in their character, values and behaviors.
