💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "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. |
| legislationnoun | A law which has been enacted by legislature or other governing body. |
| lawcodenoun | (law) A body of law that is sanctioned by legislation. |
| statutenoun | A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body. |
| legal noticenoun | Used 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. |
| legislaturenoun | A governmental body with the power to make, amend and repeal laws. |
| statutory holidaynoun | A 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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