Sentences with phrase «legislative enactments»

The largest number of legislative enactments occurred, as in past years, on the topic of child protection, including very general legislation and provisions regarding agency procedures.

NCSL's 2017 Enacted Legislation on Early Care and Education report provides an overview of significant 2017 legislative enactments in the major early care and education topic areas.

One is to oversee that all legislative enactments are in accordance with principles of natural justice and civil rights.

Such documents include «legislative enactments, judicial decisions, administrative rulings, public ordinances, or similar types of official legal materials.»

(e) shall advise the Government upon all matters of law connected with legislative enactments and upon all matters of law referred to him or her by the Government;

The Court went on to state that «To hold otherwise would require all legislative enactments creating offences to be submitted to the test of whether they offend the principles of fundamental justice.

We carefully analyze the tax consequences of support and stay current on the most recent case decisions and legislative enactments that can affect spousal support decisions.

There, recent legislative enactments and policy changes have made the educational component of the bar incompatible with the regulatory side, yet the education side voted to stay with the bar anyway.

Common Law is the system of jurisprudence originating from England, and is based on judicial precedent, rather than legislative enactments.

Would any incentives require special legislative enactment?

Many of our social problems today demand a resurrection of values in a manner that can not be compelled by constitutional command or legislative enactment.

The proposed amendment establishes a redistricting commission every 10 years beginning in 2020, with two members appointed by each of the four legislative leaders and two members selected by the eight legislative appointees; prohibits legislators and other elected officials from serving as commissioners; establishes principles to be used in creating districts; requires the commission to hold public hearings on proposed redistricting plans; subjects the commission's redistricting plan to legislative enactment; provides that the legislature may only amend the redistricting plan according to the established principles if the commission's plan is rejected twice by the legislature; provides for expedited court review of a challenged redistricting plan; and provides for funding and bipartisan staff to work for the commission.

The wood was introduced into Europe as a dyeing substance soon after the discovery of America, but for many years (from 1581 to 1662) its use in England was prohibited by legislative enactment on account of the interior dyes which at first were produced by its employment.

The Committee recalled its general remit to draw attention to unusual uses of delegated powers and matters more appropriate to legislative enactment.

The majority were right at the second level that, «a cardinal principle of property law can not be considered to have been abrogated unless the legislative enactment is in the clearest and most unequivocal of terms.»

Continuously expanding jurisdiction in criminal matters by legislative enactment and as a result of accused elections for trial in Provincial Court.

This sounds like a legislative enactment of the practice referred to by Dr Keating in the Free State era, when judges might invite members of the public to leave a courtroom in the interests of «respect».

I believe that the «only one legislative enactment» refers merely to Virginia state law, not nation - wide law.

We are aware of only one legislative enactment that addresses suicide as a crime.

Frequent legislative changes — At the same time as the volume of case law dramatically increased, so too did the frequency of legislative enactment and amendment.

If protection is warranted for such information, it should be granted through legislative enactment and not through the extension of the concept of property or of the scope of the theft provision under the Code.

Not exact matches

This included a letter to Children and Families Minister Sarah Teather — who had blocked the enactment of joint birth registration, despite it already being on the statute books as part of the 2009 Welfare Reform Act — a legislative change for which the Fatherhood Institute has campaigned long and hard (often as a lone voice and in the face of opposition from other quarters).

In 2018, the Ministry will continue the process of passing the Legislative Instruments of the National Youth and Sports Act, pursue the enactment of the draft National Sports College Bill and create a Sports Fund to improve sports development in the country

«In the absence of any showing of legislative consideration or tailoring, it is unreasonable to impose such an impairment through emergency appropriation bills, particularly when there is a unified legislative voice denying the very reasonableness and necessity of the enactment.»

It all culminated in this year's enactment of Cuomo's «free» public university tuition program — which, incredibly, was enacted (with little legislative resistance) even as the official long - term financial outlook was beginning to deteriorate.

The Governor and the legislative leaders have agreed to the enactment of a job retention credit for businesses harmed by a natural disaster.

Also, at the time the income tax was invented, the only way to form a new corporation in many states and countries was by an enactment of the legislature and it was harder to form a corporation than it is today even where legislative approval was not required to form one.

What we get, most of the time, in place of legislative responsibility, prudence, accountability and distinction is burlesque, farce, Japanese - styled Bungaku - Bunraku enactments, a dose of medieval commedia d'ell arte and an enormous supply of Yoruba Alarinjo with a bit of the Akata from Efik and Ibibioland.

These gaps are not a coincidence, as the United States has a long history of legislative, executive, and judicial enactments that have codified unequal provision of resources for schools.

It's been 50 years since the start of the «War on Poverty» and enactment of 1965 ESEA legislative funding (Title 1 - VII programs).

Many lawmakers support the creation of a legislative Charter School Advisory Commission that will conduct an in - depth study of issues related to charter schools before the enactment of legislation.

It also includes updated language following enactment of House Bill 3407 during the 85th Legislative Session.

-- The study required by subsection (a), along with recommendations by the Office of Technology Assessment, including any policy options for legislative action, shall be submitted to the President and Congress within 36 months after the date of the enactment of this Act.

Notwithstanding the recent legislative effort to repeal s13, I have no difficulty concluding that the objective of the enactment [«the suppression of hate speech and the promotion of equality] continues to be substantial and pressing.»

«The legislative purpose, at the time of the Act's enactment, was to allow «ordinary citizens» to «clearly see» who is behind the messages they receive during a campaign period, thus promoting informed voting,» said the ruling.

No legislative intent is visible in the enactments here to categorize this offence as one of absolute liability.

[60] I am therefore of the view, for all the foregoing reasons, that the legislative process, from its very inception where policy options are discussed and developed to the actual enactment of a bill following its adoption by both Houses and the granting of royal assent by the Governor... [more]

At the time, the POA was described as «one of the most sweeping legislative reforms of procedures governing the prosecution of offences since the enactment of the Criminal Code in 1892.»

A well respected and proficient legislative draftsman, he was a member and later Chair of the Focus Group established by the BVI Financial Services Commission in 2011 to see to the enactment of modern arbitration legislation for the British Virgin Islands and related issues.

These regimes are either incorporated into the national legal framework through the supra - national legislative authority of the EU (in the form of binding regulations enacted by the European Parliament or treaties to which the UK is a party), or are given effect through the enactment of national legislation.

We participated in key aspects of the legislative process that led to enactment of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988, the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 and the Satellite Home Viewer Act of 1988.

This solution has the potential to achieve the balance that has thus far eluded the Court between both Congress» legislative intent behind the original enactment of the mandatory sentencing guidelines, and the Court's Sixth Amendment concerns raised in Booker.

This includes making recommendations to modernize and simplify it, remove anomalies in legislation, consolidate related legislative items, and repeal obsolete and unnecessary enactments.

The purpose of a given state enactment should be ascertainable, if not from legislative history or a purpose statement, then from the statute viewed as a whole.

We believe it appropriate to defer to other public determinations regarding reporting of this information only where a legislative or executive body has determined the reporting to be of sufficient importance to warrant enactment of a law or promulgation of a regulation.

In the notation after the statute, sometimes, in some states, it will list the session laws in order from the first enactment through all of its legislative changes to its current form.

The Ohio Society of Medical Assistants has done an excellent job working with organized nursing and other stakeholders who have an interest in the enactment of this legislative language.

The way in which the NTA addresses legislative and executive acts that took place before the NTA's enactment, is to either confirm their validity and extinguishing effect under the confirmation provisions, or validate their extinguishing effect (for acts otherwise invalid because of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cwlth)(«RDA»)-RRB- under the validation provisions.

Thus there are two legislative tiers by which the extinguishment of native title takes place: first at the level of Commonwealth legislation and the nature of the authority that this legislation gives to State and Territory governments; and second at the level of State and Territory legislation and the enactment of legislation that extinguishes native title.

One basis of the challenge was that any right to self - government or legislative power was extinguished at the time of Confederation following the enactment of the then British North America Act (now called the Constitution Act 1867).