enabling legislation
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- noun
- /ɪˈneɪblɪŋ ˌlɛdʒɪsˈleɪʃən/
- Formal
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legislación habilitante
- The state introduced new enabling legislation to give local authorities the power to improve infrastructure.
- passed enabling legislation
- require enabling legislation
Examples
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The federal legislation should also tie the grants to state development of enabling legislation that sets a finite registration deadline, inside of which a father's registration guarantees him notice of a planned or pending adoption.
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Local governments derive their authority to zone from state legislatures, either from state constitutional home rule or enabling legislation.
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I thought this would be illegal without enabling legislation.
Blog text (21) -
The private prison firm is a mere construct of the state; but for enabling legislation, it could never even exist.
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The implementation of international agreements, if it requires enabling legislation, must nevertheless respect the division of powers set out in the Constitution.
Academic text (1992) -
Yet, the enabling legislation states that the Michigan Supreme Court will assign judges to the cyber court.
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Typically, states expressly delegate the power to enter into development agreements to municipalities through enabling legislation.
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Yet, case-by-case extensions by the judiciary fail to provide the citizenry with adequate notice of what is required under enabling legislation.
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Such statements may be found in an organization's constitution or bylaws, in its articles of incorporation, in its enabling legislation, or on its masthead.
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One of the points raised on appeal by the defendant-appellant is that it was a general agent acting on behalf of the United States of America. Congress, by enabling legislation in December of 1950, permitted seamen who had sued the general agent and thereby were proceeding against an improper party to renew their action in the U.S. District Court in Admiralty against the United States of America.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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Laws made and passed by a parliament or other elected body
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A law passed by a parliament or congress
A part of a law that gives officials the power to put the law into action
Law made by parliament or congress, not by judges
How Authorizing
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'enabling' (providing authority) + 'legislation' (laws): it refers to laws that grant powers or allow implementation. Although somewhat legal/technical, the lexical components and the noun-noun composition are transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase enabling legislation comes from the simple idea that enabling means 'giving power' and legislation means 'laws'. So enabling legislation is a law that gives a government body the legal power to do a specific job.