A stipulation that an agency or programme be disbanded or terminated at the end of a fixed period unless it is formally renewed.
〈北美〉日落法规（机构或项目在快到期时除非正式获准延期，否则将被解散或终止的规定）
it would have to be limited by a five-year sunset provision
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But in the end, I am all but certain that the Patriot Act will be renewed - this time, most likely, without a sunset provision at all.
Only time will tell if the Court truly believes that affirmative action programs have a twenty-five-year sunset provision.
A sunset provision in one part of the new anti-terrorism/anti-crime bill is limited and can easily be extended, so it will be difficult to reverse the process to re-establish the primacy of privacy over security.
While the sunset provision calls for the Act to expire in 2004, is this the first attempt at putting a price on our liberties?
The sunset provision does not apply to the amendments in sections 203 and 216.
Now, one of the things that we did is we put a sunset provision in some of these new additional powers, which I think we do need.
The difficulty that the Government has had in winding back this wicked tax in the Senate demonstrates why there may be a case for following the United States example by having tax legislation subject to sunset provisions after five years.
Therefore the sunset provision of section 24 deems a by-law of a local municipality licencing a business under any Act as expired on January 30, 2001.
The Department of Justice urged Congress, which had built in a sunset provision in 1978, not to renew it.
They also won a four-year sunset provision on the sweeping new surveillance powers.
But the law still has its sunset provision: It fades away on December 31, 2010, unless it's renewed.
As a result of the phase-ins, phase-outs and sunset provisions, estate planning practitioners appear to have been left with a set of problems that only a crystal ball can solve.
A sunset provision was included in the bill; the freshwater stamp requirement was to expire in 2014.
You don't have sunset provisions for virtually any other substantive criminal law provision.
By setting a termination date on a particular law, a sunset provision is supposed to shift the burden of proof onto those seeking its extension.
The subsequent reauthorization debates, which took place because of a five-year sunset provision embedded within the law, resolved any ambiguity about Congress's intentions.
For example, our elected representatives should have more explicit information on the long-term costs of pending legislation - including legislation with sunset provisions - on both the spending and the tax sides, before it is voted on.
The law contained a sunset provision, requiring Congress to re-authorize it in 2000.
Several aspects of it were so controversial that they were given sunset provision, specifying that they would expire unless explicitly renewed.
It is important that the fiscal stimulus is temporary, with sunset provisions built in from the beginning.