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dictación

English translation: enactment

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Spanish term or phrase:dictación
English translation:enactment
Entered by: Neil MacLean

23:15 Feb 24, 2017
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law: Contract(s) / Noise emissions (Chile)
Spanish term or phrase: dictación
la Dictación de Normas de Calidad y de Emisión; Que el Reglamento para la dictación de las normas de calidad ambiental y de emisión, DS Nº93,1995...; proponer, facilitar y coordinar la dictación de normas de emisión; Que con la dictación de la Ley Nº 20.417...; Que de acuerdo a lo anterior, para la dictación de la presente norma se ha considerado el Acuerdo Nº 220...; etc etc etc.
Neil MacLean
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:02
enactment
Explanation:
[...] proyectos de
prevención del consumo y, sobre todo, se dio impulso a la dictación de una nueva ley sobre control del narcotráfico.
unesdoc.unesco.org

[...] funds being allocated to
projects to prevent consumption and, above all, the enactment of the new narcotics control law.
unesdoc.unesco.org
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AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:02
Grading comment
Sounds spot-on to me. Thanks everyone.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4enactment
AllegroTrans
Summary of reference entries provided
Issuing laws
neilmac

  

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enactment


Explanation:
[...] proyectos de
prevención del consumo y, sobre todo, se dio impulso a la dictación de una nueva ley sobre control del narcotráfico.
unesdoc.unesco.org

[...] funds being allocated to
projects to prevent consumption and, above all, the enactment of the new narcotics control law.
unesdoc.unesco.org

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:02
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 577
Grading comment
Sounds spot-on to me. Thanks everyone.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Robert Carter
18 mins
  -> thanks Robert
agree  neilmac: Yes it would. Try a search for "issue a law", it gets over a million google hits, FWIW.
10 hrs
  -> thanks but here it's about enactment of a law, so "issuing" wouldn't work
agree  Sergio Kot
14 hrs
  -> thanks SK
agree  Martin Harvey
15 hrs
  -> thanks MH
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Reference comments


1 day 12 hrs
Reference: Issuing laws

Reference information:
Just to set the record straight: despite the comment above pooh-poohing my "agree", I stand by my assertion, as laws can be enacted, promulgated, passed, derogated, repealed and ISSUED, among other collocations.

Example sentence(s):
  • About 5200 years ago, King Menes laid down the oldest legislative systems in human history when he issued the law of "Tehut"
  • On 28 October 2010,the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress issued the Law of the People's Republic of China...

    https://www.iclg.co.uk/practice-areas/environment-and-climate-change-law/environment-and-climate-change-law-2016/colombia
neilmac
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PRO pts in category: 351
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