Temporary Legislation: Theoretical and Practical Aspects

Present dynamic development of the social relations (on both global and national levels) requires revision of the temporal criteria for legal issues by theorists of law and lawyers (practitioners). One of the legal categories which requires in-depth research is the action of legal acts in time. Basically law in general and the legal acts in particular are closely connected in terms of time: change of social relations and their development demand changes in legal regulation; synchronously law or any other regulative act also exists in time objectively (in terms of time it is developed, considered by the legislative organ and adopted, entering into action and subsequently loses its force and action proceeding). Jean-Louis Bergel, the French theorist of law, states that “despite its unresolved nature, the problem of application of law in time is a classical issue.”2 It is classical because the reflection on the connection between the law3 and its temporal features dates back to the times of Aristotle