# LegalForceStatus - Schema.org Enumeration Type

> Source: https://schema.org/LegalForceStatus
> Extracted: 2026-02-16T18:48:17.242Z

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A Schema.org Enumeration Type

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A list of possible statuses for the legal force of a legislation.

Instances of [LegalForceStatus](https://schema.org/LegalForceStatus "LegalForceStatus") may appear as a value for the following properties

Property

On Types

Description

[legislationLegalForce](https://schema.org/legislationLegalForce "legislationLegalForce")

[Legislation](https://schema.org/Legislation "Legislation")

Whether the legislation is currently in force, not in force, or partially in force.

#### Enumeration members

-   [InForce](https://schema.org/InForce "InForce")
-   [NotInForce](https://schema.org/NotInForce "NotInForce")
-   [PartiallyInForce](https://schema.org/PartiallyInForce "PartiallyInForce")

### Acknowledgements

This entry is derived from the [ELI ontology](http://publications.europa.eu/mdr/eli/index.html) (European Legislation Identifier). ELI is an initiative of some national legislation publishers endorsed by EU countries and Institutions, to identify, describe and link legislation on the web, and is led by the [ELI taskforce](http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli-register/about.html).

#### Source

[https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli](https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/model/-/resource/dataset/eli)

[https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156](https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/1156)