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Statutory authority

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statutory instrumentnoun(UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia, law) In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an act of parliament.
statutory lawnoun(law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body.
secondary legislationnoun(law) Legislation enacted by a power derived from another legislation, such as one made by the executive branch within the boundaries fixed by an act of parliament.
statute lawnoun(law, uncountable) The completecorpus of laws enacted by legislation and currently in effect within a jurisdiction, as opposed to regulations or case law.
legislationnounA law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body.
lawcodenoun(law) A body of law that is sanctioned by legislation.
statutenounA written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
legal noticenounUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see legal, notice.
legal codenoun(law) All the official laws of a country or state
authoritynoun(uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
legislaturenounA governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws.
statutory holidaynounA public holiday that is enacted by law.
nation of lawsnoun(chiefly US) A nation-state that is subject to the rule of law.
compulsory acquisitionnoun(law, Australia, New Zealand) The power of a state to expropriate private land within its jurisdiction for public use.
delegated legislationnoun(law) Synonym of secondary legislation.
statute booknoun(informal, law) All the statutes and laws of a given jurisdiction, whether or not listed in an actual book.
primary legislationnoun(law) Legislation enacted by an act of parliament; contrasted with secondary legislation, which is enacted by the executive branch under powers derived from primary legislation.
regulationnoun(countable) A law or administrative rule, issued by an organization, used to guide or prescribe the conduct of members of that organization.
subsidiary legislationnoun(law, Hong Kong, Singapore) Synonym of secondary legislation.
codenoun(programming, uncountable) Instructions for a computer, written in a programming language; the input of a translator, an interpreter or a browser, namely: source code, machine code, bytecode.

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