Wiktionary
vb. To become enforceable, or applicable.
Usage examples of "come into effect".
Within a short time, we agreed to extend the deadline for START II from 2002 to 2007 and to have START III come into effect the same year, so that Russia would never be at a strategic disadvantage.
Once there were young then the Imperial Principles in Regard to the Guarding of Young would come into effect.
CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, had just come into effect, and the window on the trading of captured wild animals had slammed shut.
Still, he anticipated that the First Law might possibly come into effect.
CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, had just come into effect, and the Window on the trading of captured wild animals had slammed shut.
Our lost com ms contingency would have come into effect by now, and the helicopter would have been briefed to meet us the following morning at 0400.
He had been largely responsible for drafting the new `avowal' legislation that was due to come into effect the next year and which would allow the government formally to acknowledge the existence of MI6 for the first time.