How to say "enactment" in Japanese

• 制定せいていJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers enactment as the act of making or establishing a law or rule, its creation at the legislative stage. This is the usual word when you mean the law was enacted, i.e. formally brought into existence.
  その法律ほうりつは明治めいじ時代じだいに制定せいていされた。↗

  The law was enacted in the Meiji era.
• 実施じっしJLPT N3approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers enactment in the sense of putting a law into force and carrying it out; its core meanings are enforcement, implementation, and putting into practice. For the legislative act of creating a law, this is not really the word you want.
  その計画けいかくは実施じっしされた。↗

  The plan was put into operation.

Use 制定 when 'enactment' means the creation or establishment of a law itself, and 実施 when it means putting a law into effect, enforcement, or implementation.

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• 制定せいていenactment
• 実施じっしenforcement
• 人定じんていenactment