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Foreign-exchange laws were introduced to stop investment and borrowing overseas.

The Telegraph's use of a pixelated image of the teenage victim of former England footballer Adam Johnson in March this year came after unlimited fines were introduced to stop newspapers flouting a law that has existed since at least 1976.

It was introduced to stop women being harassed for illegal fees by market officials and men posing as tax collectors.

It was a law that was introduced to stop aristocrats duelling –now it's being used on the council estates.

Slowly, though, computerised anti-fraud systems are being introduced to stop those with dubious certificates from landing government jobs.

Reforms have been introduced to stop the practices and increase the transparency of commission payments from insurers.

Cable's aides tried to address the question of whether safeguards would be introduced to stop employees selling shares to businesses.

New laws will be introduced to stop public sector strikes going ahead unless they have the support of 40% of workers eligible to vote.

She said: "In the US, Canada and France, a number of measures have been introduced to stop anti-abortion protests happening directly outside clinics and approaching either patients or staff.

The Government plans to remove the "fundamental right" to free legal advice for people held in police custody – 27 years after it was introduced to stop miscarriages of justice.

That Sachsgate guideline was introduced to stop a repeat of the controversy surrounding Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's "gratuitously offensive" call to Andrew Sachs' granddaughter in 2008, which ultimately led to Ross leaving the corporation.