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	Delegated legislation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Delegated legislation (sometimes referred to as secondary legislation or subordinate legislation) is law made by ministers under powers given to them by parliamentary acts (primary legislation) in order to implement and administer the requirements of the acts.
		In the United Kingdom, delegated legislation, typically, is made through the force of Statutory Instruments in the form of ministerial regulations, orders in council, and codes of practice.
		Delegated legislation can also be put into place if problems arise with existing legislation, as it is not feasible to take into account every aspect and every future problem when creating the legislation in the first place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Delegated_legislation (1416 words)

	Legislation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Legislation (or "statutory law") is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body.
		Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, which is typically also known as "legislation" while it remains under active consideration.
		Legislation can also be created at provincial and local levels of government (which have their own legislatures), where separation of powers may be less formal and complete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legislation (0 words)

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		Delegated legislation is usually created by an Act of Parliament, but it can be made under the Royal Prerogative (although this is termed subordinate legislation, since delegated legislation can only be created by delegated (statutory) authority).
		Another problem with delegated legislation is that there may be subdelegation of powers (although not for EU statutory instruments), causing complexity and confusion.
		One problem with the scrutiny of delegated legislation is that there is no guarantee of the government or opposition providing time for debate, and even when there is debate it is likely to be attended by very few members late at night.
	members.lycos.co.uk /lawnet/DELLEG.HTM (0 words)

	UK Delegated Legislation
		Delegated legislation (sometimes referred to as subordinate legislation) arises from the power granted (delegated) to an authority by Parliament to create the rules and regulations that give substance to statutes.
		Once "made," a piece of delegated legislation is usually presented to Parliament to be reviewed by a standing committee and sometimes a joint committee (of both houses).
		Parliament must ensure that the delegated legislation adheres to the scope of the primary legislation that enabled it and does not exceed the powers granted to that body.
	tarlton.law.utexas.edu /vlibrary/outlines/ukdelleg.html (0 words)

	International Commission of Jurists: "The Rule of Law and Human Rights Principles and Definitions" - Chapter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Judicial review of delegated legislation may be usefully supplemented by procedure for supervision by the legislature or by a committee or a commissioner of the legislature or by other independent authority either before or after such delegated legislation comes into effect.
		The complexity of modern society may necessitate the delegation of legislative power by the legislature to the executive, particularly where requirements of fair practice demand frequent changes or where the legislature cannot reasonably be expected to deal with technical details.
		To ensure that the executive should loyally discharge its legislative mandate, the legislature should entrust appropriate organs, such as standing committees, with the task of scrutinizing all delegated legislation and reporting to it at fixed intervals the results of their scrutiny.
	www.globalwebpost.com /genocide1971/h_rights/rol/3_exec.htm (0 words)

	ZipLaw
		Whilst the role of the executive arm of government is to develop and administer policy, the role of the parliament (or legislature) is to examine and approve proposals for legislation and to monitor the effectiveness of its operation, often through the work of committees.
		Delegated legislation must be made under the authority of a statute.
		Failure to table the delegated legislation in parliament means that the legislation is void.
	www.ziplaw.com /learn.htm (0 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Delegated legislation may be described in many ways but generally they follow the rules given below: Regulation - made by the government through the Governor-General in Council or Governor in Council and is usually a law that is made by government in cabinet or by the minister alone.
		Any delegated legislation that is ultra vires (outside the limits of the powers prescribed) may be declared by the courts to be invalid.
		The delegated legislation are being made by people who are not the elected representatives of the people and are not directly responsible to the electorate.
	www.nw.com.au /~tweedie/Notes_20Week_202.doc (0 words)

	LLRX.com - Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Revolution in Online Legal Research
		This legislation was either in the form of national legislation that extended to the region, as defined by the extent clause at the end of the act, or legislation specific to the region, identifiable by the use of the word 'Scotland' in parenthesis before the word 'Act.'
		Delegated legislation, also referred to as secondary or subordinate legislation, is comprised of the rules, regulations, orders and bylaws implemented under the powers delegated by Parliament in primary legislation.
		Legislation made by the Assembly, in the form of Statutory Instruments, is published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office on the Welsh Legislation web site.
	www.llrx.com /features/devolution.htm (0 words)

	There are a number of advantages to delegated legislation, as a source of law, firstly there is insufficient ...
		There are a number of advantages to delegated legislation, as a source of law, firstly there is insufficient Parliamentary time.
		Delegated legislation allows rules to be made more quickly than this could by Parliament.
		Another advantage is that modern legislation often needs to be very detailed for example, legislation with respect to building regulations or safety at work.
	www.coursework.info /A2_and_A-Level/Politics/There_are_a_number_of_advantages_to_delegated_legislation_L20109.html (0 words)

	Legislation Advisory Committee: Guidelines on Process & Content of Legislation
		The line between statute and delegated legislation should, in general, be that between principle and detail, between policy and its implementation.
		Parliament may delegate the setting of a fee for services but, if the amount of the fee exceeds the value of the services, that fee should be considered a tax and requires distinct authority (and, possibly, confirming legislation).
		Consideration should be given when providing for delegated legislation as to whether any requirements for notice and consultation, or confirmation of the secondary legislation, should be included in the provisions delegating legislative powers.
	www.justice.govt.nz /lac/pubs/2001/legislative_guide_2000/chapter_10.html (0 words)

	Feature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Legislative law and process are of paramount importance to legal practitioners, civil servants, parliamentarians and ordinary citizens.
		Unfortunately, legislative oversight is poor in regard to delegated legislation, although there is a requirement in some Parliamentary Acts to lay the delegated legislation in Parliament and adopt the same by way of an affirmative resolution prior to their enforcement.
		The 1972 constitution changed the language of legislation in to Sinhala with a Tamil translation and the use of English was deleted in an unrealistic manner.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/08/03/fea01.htm (0 words)

	Technical Manual Chapter 51: Subordinate legislation Part 1: Definition of subordinate legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There is no distinction between the term ‘subordinate legislation’ and that of ‘delegated legislation’ which are used in the alternative by many legal text books and commentaries.
		‘Delegated legislation’ is often used to underline the principle that power to make and pass further legislation is delegated from the machinery of Government(with readings in both Houses of Parliament as for the parent Act), to specially appointed committees and other bodies who have expertise in the subject.
		Subordinate legislation is also referred to as secondary legislation, primary legislation being that which is contained in Acts of Parliament (or statutes).
	www.insolvency.gov.uk /freedomofinformation/technical/techmanvol1/Ch49-60/Chapter51/part1/part1.htm (0 words)

	Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Bills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Delegation of administration (3) Subject to subsection (4), if the Lieutenant Governor in Council designates an administrative authority for the purpose of administering designated legislation, all provisions in the legislation relating to its administration are delegated to the administrative authority unless specifically exempted in the designation of the administrative authority or the legislation.
		Persons bound (6) If the administration of designated legislation is delegated to a designated administrative authority, the legislation binds all persons whom it would bind if the administration of it had not been delegated.
		Previous forms (3) A designated administrative authority to which the administration of designated legislation is delegated that uses forms prescribed in or under the legislation in carrying out the administration shall not hold itself out as an agent of the Crown in those forms.
	www.ontla.on.ca /french/documents/Bills/36_Parliament/session1/G96054e.htm (0 words)

	Delegated Legislation - LIAC
		Legislation is a general term used to describe many different legal documents.
		If Parliament wants to make legislation dealing with a particular matter, the Act sets out the basic scheme and the delegated legislation (which is made by the delegate) fills in some of the detail.
		Delegated legislation must always be consistent with the Act under which it is made.
	liac.sl.nsw.gov.au /legislation/delegated1.cfm (0 words)

	Australian Legal Industry News and Law Firm - Clayton Utz - New laws on delegated legislation - are you ready?
		The Bill's purpose is to impose consistent requirements for drafting, public consultation, disallowance by the Parliament and registration on a publicly-accessible electronic database of all legislative instruments (we've already looked at the Bill in detail in a previous Alert, "New bill will make delegated legislation more accessible").
		A "legislative instrument" is defined as an instrument made in the exercise of a power delegated by the Parliament.
		The issue is whether the instrument has "a legislative effect", that is, instruments that determine or alter the content of the law, rather than apply it, and that have the direct or indirect effect of affecting a privilege or interest, imposing an obligation, creating a right or varying or removing an obligation or right.
	www.claytonutz.com /news/controller.asp?nid=556 (0 words)

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		Legislative delegation is good because it gets departments and the affected public to talk about the issues and does so in a forum close to the ground.
		Baxter notes three arguments against delegation: it encourages discretion which may be wielded against individuals, it is law not made by those chosen to do so, and it potentially leads to a dangerous concentration of power.
		The method to adjudicate upon a challenge to delegated legislation on the grounds that it is void for uncertainty is thus a two-step process: "[T]he court must first construe the bye-law or regulation, applying the usual canons of consturiction with no bias towards benevolence.
	www.law.wits.ac.za /school/klaaren/conlfdns.htm (0 words)

	overheads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Delegated legislation is needed because parliament does not have the time or resources to make all legislation and it is practice to give to the executive, statutory authorities, tribunals and courts to make some rule making.
		It is different to delegated legislation since it is not subject to the same procedural and parliamentary safeguards as delegated legislation, unless specific legislative provisions to that effect is enacted.
		Delegated legislation may be declared invalid on the ground of unreasonableness if it lead to s arbitrariness, injustice or partiality, but the underlying rationale is that legislation of this offending kind cannot be within the scope of what parliament intended when authorising the subordinate legislative authority to enact laws.
	ceds.vu.edu.au /parkerda/overheads.htm (0 words)

	Legal Directory - Delegated legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since delegated legislation gives wide powers to a variety of people and bodies, it is important that both the courts and Parliament take every reasonable step to ensure that there is no abuse of the powers conferred.
		The courts can also declare delegated legislation to be ultra vires if the person on whom a power has been bestowed has failed to carry out a prescribed procedure, for example, if he has not consulted interested parties before putting the legislation into force.
		The enabling Act may provide that the delegated legislation must be laid before Parliament for forty days before it comes into effect, and during this period either House may pass a resolution to annul it.
	legal-directory.net /english-law/delegated-legislation.htm (0 words)

	Parliamentary Counsel Office - Government Response
		The report concerns types of delegated legislation that differ from traditional regulations in that they are generally not made by the Governor-General in Council, but are instead made by a Minister, a statutory officer, or an agency.
		For example, if the delegated legislation concerns relatively detailed, technical matters, not subject to criminal sanction, it may be appropriate for those matters to be regulated by a Minister or an agency.
		The legislator must have qualified and competent personnel to draft the delegated legislation, and be able to demonstrate that it has developed and followed an appropriate process for making the legislation.
	www.pco.parliament.govt.nz /legislation/governmentresponse.shtml (0 words)

	'Delegated legislation is a necessary evil'. How far is this an accurate assessment of this process of law making? - ...
		Throughout this essay I will write about the advantages and disadvantages and at the end of this essay I will draw up a conclusion on whether delegated legislation is really a necessary evil.
		Delegated legislation is where and act of parliament is passed, this is known as the parent act or the enabling act, giving someone other then parliament the right to make acts.
		Delegated legislation can be split up into three sections; they are statutory instruments, by-laws and orders in council.
	www.coursework.info /A2_and_A-Level/Law/Delegated_legislation_is_a_necessary_evil_How_far_is_L71621.html (0 words)

	AcademicDB - Delegated Legislation.
		Delegated Legislation Delegated legislation is law that is made by bodies other than parliament but with the authority of parliament.
		It is needed because: * Parliament does not have the time to debate and consider all the detail required to put an Act into practice.
		The procedure of delegated legislation, however, can deal with this much more smoothly and easily.
	www.academicdb.com /delegated_legislation_7815 (0 words)

	Legislation Advisory Committee: Guidelines on Process & Content of Legislation
		The principles set out in paragraphs 5 to 10 should apply, with all necessary modifications and to the extent practicable,[212] to an amendment to a document incorporated by reference (being an amendment that is to have legal effect in New Zealand) as if the amendment were a new document.
		The agency responsible for an Act of Parliament or delegated legislation which incorporates a document by reference, should consider publishing on the Internet a brief description of all amendments having legal effect in New Zealand that have been made to the document since it was incorporated.
		212 For example, the legislation may provide that consultation is not necessary before an amendment of a technical nature is made, but access to the amendment once made should be provided as stated in paragraph 8.
	www.justice.govt.nz /lac/pubs/2001/legislative_guide_2000/appendix_4.html (0 words)

	Types of delegated legislation in New South Wales - LIAC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		What is important is to whom Parliament has given the power to make delegated legislation and that it is properly made.
		By-laws are a type of delegated legislation which operate in a limited area.
		This term was most commonly used to describe delegated legislation made by the Governor under the Local Government Act 1919.
	liac.sl.nsw.gov.au /legislation/delegated.cfm (0 words)

	Legislation Advisory Committee: Incorporation by Reference Principles August 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The agency responsible for the legislation should discuss the use of that authority with the Regulations Review Committee at the time when the first such delegated legislation is made.
		In the case of delegated legislation, before the delegated legislation is finalised consult the persons likely to be affected by the document to the same extent as if the content of the document had been set out in the delegated legislation;
		The legislation or the document should clearly distinguish between rights, powers, and obligations which have legal effect on the one hand and guidelines and descriptive and other explanatory material on the other, and the legislation should state that explanatory material is not to have legal effect;
	justice.govt.nz /lac/pubs/2002/incorporation-by-reference-principles (0 words)

	Topic 4: Parliament and Administrative Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Delegated Legislation in the Education Department of Tasmania, Madiyem Layapan and Kimani Boden, 1993(Tas) 111 PPL
		Delegated Legislation and the Environment — a critical analysis of delegated legislation’s effect on the environment, with reference to Forestry in Tasmania.
		The effect of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992 and the Subordinate Legislation Amendment Act 1994 on the Deregulation of the Tasmanian Public Sector.
	www.foi.law.utas.edu.au /active/abstracts/topics-4.html (0 words)

	CSU Library - Legislation
		Legislation is a primary source of law, comprising of Acts, also referred to as statutes, and delegated or subordinate legislation.
		Acts are laws made by parliament while delegated legislation refers to laws made by authorities who have been delegated law-making powers by an Act of parliament.
		Delegated legislation comprises of regulations, rules, by-laws, ordinances and may be referred to collectively by a variety of names: statutory rules, statutory instruments or regulations.
	www.csu.edu.au /division/library/eresource/legleg.htm (0 words)

	Edited Hansard * Table of Contents * Number 076 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Court rules made under statutory authority come within the scope of Bill C-205 because they are delegated legislation, just as they come within the scope of the existing Statutory Instruments Act because they are delegated legislation.
		It is put forward because it is necessary to adopt legislation to expand the scope of parliamentary control of delegated legislation to include all instruments that are now subject to parliamentary scrutiny.
		Full parliamentary control of delegated legislation with such exceptions as are warranted represents a meaningful and significant reduction of the democratic deficit.
	www.parl.gc.ca /37/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/076_2003-03-24/han076_1110-E.htm (0 words)

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