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   "text": "Sunset provisions are legislative tools that impose automatic expiration dates on laws or regulations, and their function is to compel periodic review and reassessment rather than to repeal directly.",
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   "text": "Legal garbage collection is stipulated as the systematic review and removal of outdated, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary laws from the legal code, by analogy to garbage collection in computer science.",
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