On 8/3/2019 4:42 PM, Jason Cobb wrote:
> On 8/3/19 7:37 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>> We added "rules to the contrary notwithstanding" to
>> R2140 to solve that - but R2140 still only applies to instruments below
>> power-3.
>
>
> How does that solve the problem? If I understand the issue correctly, the
> power-1 rule wouldn't be blocked by R2140, since it wouldn't be modifying a
> "substantive aspect" of the proposal (it wouldn't be changing the proposal
> itself at all), it would just happen to say that the proposal's effects
> would be INEFFECTIVE.
Whether or not a proposal clause is prohibited from takes effect certainly
"affects the instrument's operation" because the taking effect *is* its
operation. "Any aspect" includes what its text is allowed to do in a given
situation, not just the contents of its text.
-G.
