go into effect

go into effect

Of a law, policy, etc., to become official, legitimate, or valid. These changes in the uniform policy go into effect at the start of next year.
See also: effect, go
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go into effect

 and take effect
[for a law or a rule] to become effective. When does this new law go into effect? The new tax laws won't go into effect until next year.
See also: effect, go
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

come/go into efˈfect

(of laws, rules, etc.) begin to be used, applied, etc: The winter timetable comes into effect in November.
See also: come, effect, go
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • come into effect
  • come/go into effect
  • (one) doesn't know which way is up or down
  • open to question
  • in this regard
  • in this/that regard
  • in that regard
  • in (one's) own name
  • last in, first out
  • separate but equal
References in classic literature
It had been reported to the Speaker of the House, by secret- service agents of the government, that the Socialist Congressmen were about to resort to terroristic tactics, and that they had decided upon the day when their tactics would go into effect. This day was the very day of the explosion.
Premier Su Tseng-chang Thursday (May 30) on his Facebook announced that a new set of guidelines protecting renters would go into effect on Saturday (June 1).
The revised pact will go into effect after being ratified by the legislatures in South Korea and Singapore.
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's government imposed a nationwide curfew Sunday that police said would go into effect immediately and would last "until further notice", after a string of deadly blasts.
The ambassador added that four remaining states have to sign for the agreement to go into effect. Fifty two out of 55 member states in the African Union signed up to AfCFTA that must be ratified by 22 states to come into force.
A national ban on bump stocks is set to go into effect on Tuesday, even as a gun-rights group moved Monday to appeal the regulation to the Supreme Court, CNBC's Jeff Daniels reports.
The new coverage did not go into effect until July 9, three days after the incident.
Even at that vote, council members acknowledged how unlikely the city's ordinance -- slated to go into effect Jan.
The order will go into effect April 23-60 days from its date of publication.
Purvis said countries can't withdraw from new international agreements, including the Paris climate one, until three years after they go into effect. The Paris agreement went into effect on Nov.
The first reduction--bringing the BPT down to 8.2 percent and the BET down to 0.72 percent--goes into effect in calendar year 2016, but the rest would only go into effect if the general and education trust fund revenue for the 2016-17 biennium reaches $4.64 billion, a figure the Republican leadership said was attainable.
Summary: The third phase of the new traffic law will go into effect in June, the ISF announced Thursday.
However, the requirements would go into effect only if other states in the Northeast enact similar laws.
That said, some provisions of these major laws will go into effect in 2013, as scheduled.