retroactive

adjective

Influencing or applying to a period prior to enactment.

Retroacting; having a reversed or retrospective action; operative with respect to past circumstances; holding good for preceding cases.

adjective

Fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; affecting what is past; retrospective.

adjective

one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or in any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the law.

adjective

Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions

adjective

descriptive of any event or stimulus or process that has an effect on the effects of events or stimuli or process that occurred previously

adjective

affecting things past