The complexity results not only from the profound moral and ethical dimensions of the question, but also from the overlapping federal and provincial legislative competence in relation to it. (slaw.ca)
This joint character, provided for by the distribution of legislative competence between the federation and the Länder, is the first drastic restriction for an effective reform. (sciencemag.org)
That bill called the services to which it applied its similar rules «Contracts Involving Sequential Performance for Services Provided at a Distance», perhaps (as the commentary cited here suggests) to avoid infringing on federal legislative competence over telecommunications. (slaw.ca)