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{{pe}}A coda of legal flatulence that goes without saying and is capable of almost infinite embellishment if you are prepared to put your mind to it. Try, for example “as amended, ''supplemented'', ''updated'' [[and/or]] ''augmented'' [[from time to time]]”. Perhaps toss in “[[orally or in writing]]”. There’s also, always, scope for [[For the avoidance of doubt|avoiding some doubt]] that wasn’t there in the first place.

[[As amended from time to time]] usually describes a [[contract]], [[statute]] or [[regulation]], will be buried in a {{tag|definition}}s section, and in truth does no real harm, but it will any offend [[prose stylist|prose stylists]] who happen to be reading. (The likelihood of [[prose stylist|prose stylists]] reading capital markets trading agreements are, of course, vanishingly low.)

But the retort, should the pedant with whom you are negotiating seek to dirty your prose with this phrase, is this: “Who, in their right mind, would want to refer to an agreement, regulation, statutory instrument or other dated legal obligation as it exists at any date other than today?”

Once upon a time, I thought this gag might go silently appreciated, at least among my contrarian co-conspirators in the financial derivatives world, but it seems not. So, at the risk of explaining the joke: