Sentences with phrase «change legislation without»

The government is facing claims from Remain supporting MPs that it is giving itself sweeping powers to change legislation without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.

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WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO, April 10 - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.

Enabling legislation allows for the spending on statutory programs without having to seek annual approval by Parliament, unless changes to the parameters of the programs are being sought.

When incomes are high, tax liabilities rise and eligibility for government benefits falls, without any change in the tax code or other legislation.

Thanks to an Access to Information request filed by Blacklock's Reporter, an online newsmagazine, we've learned that the Harper government has been drafting legislation since last November to strip away pension security for federally - regulated workers, despite Finance Minister Joe Oliver's statement this past April that no changes would be made without the consent of the retirees.

WASHINGTON / SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)- Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two U.S. congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.

Any changes in requirements for insurance companies, which are likely to be an important element of any replacement legislation, could not likely be passed under reconciliation without 60 votes to waive the Byrd rule.

Energy companies are abusing their social responsibilities and they have proved time and time again that without legislation they will not change their behaviour.»

EU law was turned into British law usually using statutory instruments, little mechanisms which allow you to change the law without a debate and legislation in parliament.

Delegated or secondary legislation allows the Government to make changes to a law without needing to pass an act of Parliament.

Reps. Nydia Velazquez and Grace Meng said they have introduced legislation that would prevent any changes to the U.S. Census without Congressional approval.

Last night a deal on housing legislation came together between the Assembly and Senate that would have extended the controversial J - 51 tax abatement until 2015 without making any changes to it, as well as making changes in the housing code for loft tenants.

NEW YORK CITY — One of the sponsors of legislation that would require police to obtain consent to conduct searches without a warrant or probable cause said he plans to push forward with the bills after Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito negotiated what critics call a «back - door deal» to allow the NYPD to instead implement some of the changes themselves.

The measure passed the Assembly but failed in the Senate; now it looks like the board can move ahead with the change in process without any official legislation.

The Welsh Economy Minister would face an uphill battle over possible changes to business rate relief for charity shops according to Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Business Minister, Eluned Parrott AM, following legal advice that Welsh Ministers do not have the power to impose such changes without new primary legislation.

All of these changes can be made without legislation, as the current system remains wholly at the Prime Minister's discretion.

Labor resistance makes passage of the legislation — without substantial changes — an uphill fight.

«The Deputy Prime Minister told Mr Cameron and other members of the highly secretive National Security Council that without major changes, the Liberal Democrats will not back legislation allowing more court hearings and inquests to be held behind closed doors.»

The most important point is that fossil fuel costs will continue to grow in the years to come, with or without climate change legislation.

Thiesfeldt said Tuesday that without sanctions, the legislation would not be effective in producing change.

Mrs Morgan said that many of the proposals could be delivered without changes to the law - and that at present she could not say «what's in the detail of the legislation».

«Should the legislature attempt to comply with these broad directives, even if it were to be given time extensions, by enacting new legislation, then it would have made these broad changes based solely on the views of a single Superior Court judge, without review or consideration by higher judicial authority,» the appeal says.

Bad legislation would impose tremendous costs on our economy and on American families without accomplishing the important climate change goals we share.

Bad legislation would impose tremendous costs on our economy and American families without accomplishing the important climate change goals we share.

The United States» Congress won't pass domestic legislation without key developing countries like China, which is now a major greenhouse gas emitter signing on to reduction commitments; and China sees themselves as a developing country that has acted progressively and responsibly to address climate change when it technically has no obligation to do so under the UNFCCC.

The «hack» posting at The Air Vent may have had a special twist, as the subject there was about «An open letter reply to a letter written to government by 18 different scientific organizations concerning climate change legislation» that criticizes the associations about climate terminology: «Dear President or Executive Director, How could it happen that more than a dozen of the most prestigious scientific associations signed and submitted this letter on «climate change» without having ensured that the used terminology is sufficiently defined.

Where is the political leadership in calling for «comprehensive» climate legislation, then IMMEDIATELY changing the subject without so much as a nod to what climate legislation must entail in addition to clean energy?

If Obama takes the position that legislation can be negotiated without regard to whether its supporters believe in the scientific evidence or not, if he brings to the bully pulpit no serious vocabulary on climate change, no gravitas on climate science, then how likely is it that he will lead government and society to deal with the problem in a «comprehensive» way?

Labor and the climate advocacy movement made a strategic mistake in 2010 by trying to sell the climate legislation as about «clean energy futures» and «saying yes» without talking about how climate change would affect people's lives.

Until landowners are prevented from signing away their land for a generation or more without a requirement they receive independent legal advice, until the legislation and regulation is made transparent to average voters (for example, until they understand why much of what they actually want to appeal may not be appealed so that, from their perspective, they in fact have no right of appeal), until they understand why of all structures it is only the power to approve the erection of wind towers that has been taken away from local municipalities, until they understand why applications for immediately adjacent areas (by gilead and wpd) abutting Lake Ontario in either the most dense or second-most dense bird migration area in all of Eastern Canada may not be joined into one proceeding [guess whose interests that favours]... the list of «untils» is a long one and there is no indication of any change on the way.

Since 1949, successive governments have made changes to the scope of legal aid without the need for primary legislation.

The rationale and importance of this focus evolves from the understanding that workers» compensation legislation - from the first modern act passed in Ontario in 1915 to the dramatic changes of the 1990s - would not have taken the forms that it did without the concerted efforts, protests, and the successes achieved by injured workers and their organizations.

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Changes to UK legal services legislation mean companies can now provide advice without all the constraints suffered by traditional law firms.

Jersey legislation is new, up to date and, importantly, is now capable of allowing rapid change without recourse to the States of Jersey, the Island's legislature.

As Saskatchewan has adopted the federal Child Support Guidelines (see The Family Maintenance Act, 1997 and The Family Maintenance Regulations, 1998) the amendments automatically came into force in Saskatchewan without any change to provincial legislation.

These early loose - leaf services allowed legal publishers to produce up - to - date consolidations of legislation without having to reprint an entire book every time changes were made to the legislation.

Silbert tells AdvocateDaily.com the legislation will change the Children's Law Reform Act, the Vital Statistics Act and 39 other statutes to ensure the partner of a birth parent can be legally recognized as a parent without the need for a court order.

State and Territory Indigenous heritage protection legislation also continues to operate without change.

Also, the NIC Principles have not fully explored what can already be achieved under existing land rights legislation but instead recommends changes to land rights laws without a full understanding of their existing potential.

For example, is it enough to simply change legislation or amend policies without building the capacity of communities or native title groups to access and engage with the system positively and proactively?

This change to the MID would impact fewer than 6 percent of mortgages nationwide and would save an estimated $ 95.5 billion over the first decade; however, the legislation uses the savings generated by the MID reform to pay for lower tax rates for billionaires and corporations without addressing the affordable housing crisis in America.

The House has passed legislation that would dramatically change our nation's tax laws by reducing the mortgage interest and property tax deductions and making it harder for households to sell their homes without paying capital gains taxes.