Supporters of the new restrictions say these provisions simply plug loopholes in previous laws.
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Under previous licensing laws, a licence for alcohol was separate from an entertainment licence, but under the new regulations there is one all-encompassing permit.
Creating jobs is complicated by the failure of previous employment laws.
In economic terms, either system would dwarf the impact of previous big environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act.
And the authorities of previous sanctions, laws, provide a basis for that.
However, he reiterated Mr Brown's previous comment that "British laws must be based on British values and that religious law, while respecting other cultures, should be subservient to British criminal and civil law".
It is popularly believed that education laws passed by the previous government abolished rigid catchment areas and gave parents the right to choose where their children go to school.
Under laws introduced by the previous conservative-led Dutch government, a national ban on foreigners using cannabis was due to be rolled out to Amsterdam by the end of this year.
It calls on the government to do more to make sure the labour laws are being respected, following previous similar warnings.
Indeed, the co-operation that the PAN has managed to secure from the centre-left Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), whose backing was vital to previous reforms to Mexico's tax and pension laws, may already be starting to fray.
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In 2011, The New York Times found at least 51 enforcement cases over the previous 15 years where 19 Wall Street firms had broken securities laws they had previously agreed never to break.
But Congress has recently gotten into the nasty habit of passing tax laws late in the year and making them effective as of the previous Jan. 1.
New York's new gun laws represented a more overtly partisan victory for Mr. Cuomo than his previous achievements.
Lady Manningham-Buller, a leading critic of the previous government's plans to extend pre-charge detention, said it was "completely untrue" that past laws had always been in response to requests by the security and intelligence services or the police.
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