Sentences with phrase «enabling statute»

An enabling statute is a law that grants authority or power to an organization or agency to carry out a specific task or function. It enables the organization or agency to legally perform certain actions or duties outlined in the statute. Full definition
Directs department to provide just compensation to any person who previously held license and who does not meet criteria, provided that person met criteria as set forth in enabling statute before effective date of Act.
Directs department to issue anew license to any person who previously held license if person meets criteria, as amended by Act, of enabling statute.
The proposed Communications Security Establishment Act — a new enabling statute for CSE — is welcome.
That's what we have in Ontario, with several years of regulation by the Law Society under enabling statute.
Another challenge we have found was that the PCSB's enabling statute states that it can not mandate all EC schools to adopt the same assessment.
Specifies that State Department of Agriculture shall rescind industrial hemp licenses if licenses were issued in manner that did not comply with enabling statute.
«It's important that the powers granted by the Nassau Interim Finance Authority (NIFA) enabling statute remain intact in order for the board to fulfill its mission to protect the state and county,» NIFA Chairman Adam Barsky said in a statement.
For additional help, Mosten also supplies a section entitled «Questions and Answers About Ethical and Competent Service,» which addresses issues arising for lawyers living in states both with and without specific collaborative enabling statutes.16
Procedural fairness may be codified or modified by statute, and this includes the right of a respondent to receive notice of a complaint, or to have opportunity to respond to a complaint, where a regulatory bodies» enabling statute provides for such a right at the investigation stage.
While enabling statutes of professional regulatory bodies may not require that respondents respond to complaints, particular regulators may enact standards that require their registrants to cooperate during investigations.
The existence of a Secretary and the need for Senate approval are also typically in the enabling statute.
As an example, here's a section of the Department of Agriculture's enabling statute:
Specifically, in the Justice Center's enabling statute, the Legislature recognized that OSC has no need for these highly confidential records: it can audit the Justice Center's performance by accessing records in substantiated cases.
Reid has proposed eliminating is solely with respect to Presidential nominees to his cabinet positions so that the GOP / Teatrolls can't just essentially nullify existing laws by preventing entire agencies from running in the manner their enabling statutes mandate.
First, the Department's interpretation of the PSLF eligibility criteria is incompatible with the enabling statute and the relevant regulation.
Much cleaner to fix the enabling statute definitions whilemin control of both houses of Congress and be done with it.
And remember that the disapproval resolution requires only 51, not 60 votes in the Senate, under the rules of the enabling statute, the Congressional Review Act of 1996 (signed by President Clinton, and part of the Republican «Contract with America»).
The Divisional Court's decision in TWU also highlighted how the enabling statute in Ontario has affected the development of the profession here,
[I] n carrying out its mandate under its enabling statute, the respondent throughout its long history, has acted to remove obstacles based on considerations, other than ones based on merit, such as religious affiliation, race, and gender, so as to provide previously excluded groups the opportunity to obtain a legal education and thus become members of the legal profession in Ontario.
Commentary: The Supreme Court of Canada in this case, and in the case of R. v. Conway, 2010 SCC 22 (see our blog summary here) has made clear that tribunals must address Charter issues which are raised before them (unless expressly exempted by their enabling statute).
It appears as if the enabling statute has survived Charter challenge [R. v. Campanella, 2005 CanLII 10880 (ON C.A.)-RSB-- in relation to court house security, so judicial review would appear to be an uphill battle.
So all electronic transactions, not just ones involving real estate, have to find their legal support outside the enabling statute, without noticeable harm to business in that province.
Here, I aim to: (1) demonstrate that expertise writ large does not provide a sound justification for deference on questions of law, unless incorporated into the decision - maker's enabling statute and (2) relatedly, argue that deference is not prescribed by extralegal justifications such as expertise, but only by statutory language, which determines the leeway a court should afford to a decision - maker.
Its focus is properly on the enabling statute.
Professional regulatory bodies in British Columbia must preserve personal privacy, and treat matters as confidential, as and to the extent they must under their enabling statutes, and under BC's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act («FIPPA»).
All aspects of the tribunal's structure, as laid out in its enabling statute, must be examined, and an attempt must be made to determine precisely what combination of functions the legislature intended that tribunal to serve, and what procedural protections are appropriate for a body that has these particular functions.
While the CRT may determine both strata property matters and a limited range of small claims matters [3], its enabling statute also permits it to determine matters that might be assigned to it by other statues.
Such hearings are relatively novel to many professional regulators, and for many, their enabling statutes and subordinate legislation are silent on investigative and hearing procedures at registration.
The enabling statutes usually state the requirement in therms of not being a further threat to society.
But unless the enabling statute for a regulatory body provides a right to a complainant to seek a review or appeal (to a court or to another body), a complainant does not have automatic standing to challenge the decision of an inquiry committee to resolve a complaint by means other than a hearing.
It is largely an enabling statute to protect Canadian interests against foreign courts and governments.
Hearing panels that need legal assistance can and should retain their own lawyer, an action typically expressly provided for in a regulator's enabling statute or bylaws, but normally available in any event as a power necessary to a panel carrying out statutory duties.
Firstly, the Supreme Court heard the appeal by the Public Law Project in the residence test case and unanimously ruled against the government on the issue of whether the proposed residence test was ultra vires the enabling statute.
The court had declared on 18 April 2016 that the government's proposed residence test for civil legal aid was ultra vires the enabling statute and therefore unlawful.
Since professional regulatory bodies are creatures of statute, one might mistakenly think that all their duties are expressed within the four corners of their enabling statutes.
The recent Ontario Court of Appeal decision in Laffin v. Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, 2012 ONCA 846 provides a sober reminder to professional regulatory bodies that in assessing applicants for registration, they are confined to assessing applications against the particular requirements set out in their enabling statutes and bylaws.
This outcome serves as a reminder to regulatory bodies across Canada that applicants for registration must be assessed within the confines of the express requirements set out in that body's enabling statute, regulations or bylaws, and that guidelines alone are not sufficient to create new enforceable requirements, unless a provision in or under a statute provides for enforceable guidelines.
Investigation costs: The right to recover investigation costs will depend on the wording of the enabling statute.
Do we need to get the enabling statutes amended?
This will depend on the express rights of complainants under the regulator's enabling statute, and whatever disclosure the complainant must receive as a matter of procedural fairness.
Although a statutory review or appeal body may have exclusive jurisdiction under its enabling statute, the Human Rights Code provides the Code will prevail in the event of any conflict between the Code and another enactment (s. 4).
Second, allowing this type of appeal would be contrary to the purpose and intent of Rule 23 (f) and its enabling statutes, under which appeals from class certification orders may be heard only in the discretion of the court of appeals.
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