The phrase "if not in effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something may not be currently active or applicable.
Example: "The new policy will be implemented next month, if not in effect already."
Alternatives: "if not currently active" or "if not presently applicable".
They heard no witnesses and viewed no tapes, for the motion they were being asked to rule upon was merely procedural in theory, if not in effect.
You cast back over Mayall's previous television personas, plural in number if not in effect, in A Kick Up The Eighties, The Young Ones, and Filthy, Rich and Catflap.
Furthermore, section 12665 gives directions to the Oklahoma officer as to his obligations, requires the court to give precedence to these cases and directs the kind of judgment to be returned, see note 1, supra, which is quite different in language, if not in effect, from the judgment a Federal court would render.
The new natural lawyers have responded that penile-vaginal sex is reproductive in type, even if not in effect, while same-sex activity can never be reproductive in type (Finnis 1997, cf. George 2000, Lee 2008).
One is white, one black; both are brilliant showmen and raconteurs; both are certainly geniuses in their own minds, but probably to the rest of us, too (if not in fact, then in effect).
If not in terms, yet in effect, the present cases are treated as if the constitutional prohibition was that no state shall take private property for public use without just compensation, and as if it was our duty to judge of the compensation.
Most countries have a fishing vessel licensing system in their laws, even if not currently in effect.
Reproductive-type sex can be oriented towards procreation even if not procreative in effect.
If this restriction were not in effect there would be three independent reactions and it is shown in this paper that the equilibrium cell potential would have to equal zero in such a case.
The Kaiser Family Foundation estimated that 52 million people have conditions serious enough that insurers would outright deny them coverage if the A.C.A. were not in effect, according to an analysis it did two years ago.
The rate of increase of imports has slowed since the tariffs were imposed, she said, "and if the tariffs were not in effect, the increase would have been much more". From January to October 1997, Turkish imports, faced with tariffs of as much as 40percentt, evaporated to less then one-half of 1percentt of total imports, after doubling their share from 1991 to 1994, to 13.2percentt.
