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An act to enhance citizen access to Government information and services by establishing that Government documents issued to the public must be written clearly, and for other purposes. Signed into law on October 13, 2010, by President Obama, the Plain Writing Act of 2010 ( H.R. 946; Pub. L. 111–274 (text) (PDF)) is a United States federal law ...
PLAIN provided guidance to federal executive agencies when President Barack Obama signed the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which required federal executive agencies to put all new and revised covered documents into plain language. [28] The Act's sponsor, U.S. Representative Bruce Braley, noted upon its passage that "The writing of documents in the ...
The Presidential Records Act ( PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. §§ 2201 – 2209, [ 3] is an Act of the United States Congress governing the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981, and mandating the preservation of all presidential records. Enacted November 4, 1978, [ 4] the PRA changed the legal ...
Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) is the common name for the United States federal process crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, [1] even by merely ...
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( PIPEDA; French: Loi sur la protection des renseignements personnels et les documents électroniques) is a Canadian law relating to data privacy. [ 2] It governs how private sector organizations collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of commercial business.
The term statute of frauds comes from the Statute of Frauds, an act of the Parliament of England (29 Chas. 2 c. 3) passed in 1677 (authored by Lord Nottingham assisted by Sir Matthew Hale, Sir Francis North and Sir Leoline Jenkins [2] and passed by the Cavalier Parliament), the long title of which is: An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries.
A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data. [ 1] Personal information can be anything that can be used to identify an individual, not limited to the person's name, address, date of birth, marital status ...
Policy documents that start with a proposal and assemble an argument for that position are more accurately referred to as a government white paper. A government green paper which raises a policy option and is meant to open a dialogue on the proposal is more similar in tone to a briefing note than is a white paper .