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  2. Legislation - Wikipedia

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    Legislation is the process or result of enrolling, enacting, or promulgating laws by a legislature, parliament, or analogous governing body. [1] Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill , and may be broadly referred to as "legislation" while it remains under consideration to distinguish it from other business.

  3. Primary and secondary legislation - Wikipedia

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    In Australian law, primary legislation includes acts of the Commonwealth Parliament and state or territory parliaments.Secondary legislation, formally called legislative instruments, are regulations made according to law by the executive or judiciary or other specified bodies which have the effect of law. [3]

  4. Statutory interpretation - Wikipedia

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    Where legislation and case law are in conflict, there is a presumption that legislation takes precedence insofar as there is any inconsistency. In the United Kingdom this principle is known as parliamentary sovereignty ; but while Parliament has exclusive competence to legislate, the courts (mindful of their historic role of having developed ...

  5. Guidance, navigation, and control - Wikipedia

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    Guidance, navigation and control (abbreviated GNC, GN&C, or G&C) is a branch of engineering dealing with the design of systems to control the movement of vehicles, especially, automobiles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft. In many cases these functions can be performed by trained humans.

  6. Rulemaking - Wikipedia

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    In administrative law, rulemaking is the process that executive and independent agencies use to create, or promulgate, regulations.In general, legislatures first set broad policy mandates by passing statutes, then agencies create more detailed regulations through rulemaking.

  7. Legislative intent - Wikipedia

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    In law, the legislative intent of the legislature in enacting legislation may sometimes be considered by the judiciary to interpret the law (see judicial interpretation). The judiciary may attempt to assess legislative intent where legislation is ambiguous or does not appear to directly, adequately address a particular issue, or appears to have ...

  8. Direction (delegated legislation) - Wikipedia

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    This is because ministerial directions are not normally published on legislation.gov.uk: they are usually published on gov.uk, but this specific measure relates to what is published on legislation.gov.uk. [9] [10] The authority for this comes from clause 1 of part 1, schedule 5 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. [11]

  9. United States administrative law - Wikipedia

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    Section 551 of the Administrative Procedure Act gives the following definitions: . Rulemaking is "an agency process for formulating, amending, or repealing a rule." A rule in turn is "the whole or a part of an agency statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy."