ordinance

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Ordinance

Ordinance may refer to:

Law

By-law, a rule established by an organization to regulate itself
Local ordinance, a law made by a municipality or other local authority
Act of Parliament, in some jurisdictions, such as England when the parliament operated without regal sanction, and a number of British colonies
- Royal ordinance, see Decree
Ordonnance (French constitutional law), , in French government, a regulation adopted by the executive in a domain normally reserved for statute law
Ordinance (Belgium), a law adopted by the Brussels Parliament or the Common Community Commission
Ordinance (university), a particular class of internal legislation in a United Kingdom university
Ordinance XX, a law passed down in Pakistan which prevents Ahmadi Muslims from being identified as Muslims