This was the date of the "sunset clause" set prior to the devolution of justice powers in 2010.
Lord Pannick felt a sunset clause would impose "an important discipline on government".
Even without that reality, the law's sunset clause means that Congress has the option to renew the legislation or revise it.
Earlier she had tried to secure opposition backing for minimum pricing by proposing a "sunset clause" in the legislation, which would review the policy after six years.
If you're banking on Bush's eliminating the inheritance tax, keep in mind that the tax breaks are phased in by 2010, and there is a sunset clause in 2011.
If the sunset clause in the new tax law has you in a panic that death delayed one day into 2011 could cost heirs millions in restored estate taxes, relax.
During the debate, the SDLP's Alex Attwood said clause 2 of the bill, which deals with justice powers potentially lapsing by May 2012 - the "sunset clause" - created an unstable situation.
As peers debated the bill for a second day in committee on 1 November 2011, shadow home affairs spokesman Lord Rosser called for an annual review or "sunset clause" to be added to the bill.
At committee stage, peers voted down an amendment the government had promised to defuse opposition to the bill in the Commons - to add a "sunset clause" - leaving the MPs that accepted assurances that it would be added rather peeved.
Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness said the severity of the sunset clause was designed to prevent a lack of agreement on the creation of a justice ministry, and that there was no fallback mechanism contained either in other Northern Ireland legislation, or through Westminster.
Peers then turn to the third reading of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill - where there may be an attempt to press an amendment for a "sunset clause" on the changes it makes to planning powers to impose a quota for affordable housing in new developments.
Peers voted by a majority of six to put a "sunset clause" in the legislation, aiming to kill off the bill after the next general election unless a future government chose to revive it, and by a majority of four to restrict the issues on which referendums would be held.
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