Sentences with phrase «regulatory bodies the power»

At the request of several regulatory bodies, including the Quebec Bar Association (the Barreau du Québec), the government has introduced legislation to give regulatory bodies the power to suspend or limit their members» licences, while an investigation or criminal trial is underway.

Not exact matches

«Regulatory power should not be used by any regulatory body to pick winners and losers.»

Unconscionable conduct (agrees with NFF that they have not provided protection and support reforms «to provide transparency in the supply chain» and recognise that «certain classes of suppliers... are predisposed to suffering from a special disadvantage...»; misuse of market power (legal framework must «level the balance of market power in negotiations...», «ensure transparency in the transmission of market prices» and «not allow for final market risks to be borne by the primary producer» and provide «transparency of contract processes» - specifically, Canegrowers supports effects test and a process giving ACCC greater power to «regulate anti-competitive behaviour and impose penalties», shifting «the decisions framework from the judicial system to a regulatory system» which would make it more accessible to small producers); collective bargaining (notes limits of Sugar Industry Act (Qld); authorisation and notification approval costly and limited and not a viable alternative - peak bodies should be able to «commence and progress collective bargaining with mills on behalf of their members» and current threshold too restrictive)» competitive neutrality (mixed outcomes - perverse outcomes in the case of natural monopolies - suggest remove «application of competitive neutrality provisions to natural monopoly essential services»)

The playing field is not remotely level, and, due to the inactivity of the regulatory bodies at the time they still had the power to make effective legislation to control the influence of billionaires who wanted to use football as a plaything, it never will be again.

The committee of the protest in a statement obtained by the Nigeria Politics Online expressed denunciation of the electricity regulatory body and the Federal Ministry of Power, «who are advertently and inadvertently subverting the wishes and desires of the Nigerian people to good and qualitative life.»

This included: pressure on Defra and other bodies to supply long term funding for the Dog Advisory Council; extending the Council's powers so that it becomes an independent regulatory body; compulsory microchipping; the licensing of breeders who breed 3 litters or more a year; the KC to adopt the Advisory Council's Breeding Standard; improved education of the general public including Animal Welfare as part of the core curriculum of schools; the Defra Code of Practice for the Welfare of Dogs to include breeding and genetic welfare issues; endorsement of the RSPCA Puppy Contract by all stakeholders.

Finally, I work to compel utility regulatory bodies to deny proposed nuclear power projects, and to close operating nuclear power plants.

In this 112th Congress alone, oil, gas and coal interests gave over $ 20 million of this «dirty energy money» to our Senators and Representatives, to influence their votes around industry - friendly measures from dismantling the power of regulatory bodies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to approving the Keystone pipeline, to opening up the outer - continental shelf to drilling.

The Act created new charitable purposes, explicitly mirroring government policies and, more crucially, appeared to attempt to convert a non-ministerial regulatory body, the Charity Commission, into a law making one, with power, in the guise of satisfying the public benefit test, to end the life of any of the 183,506 registered charities — Catholic adoption agencies and public schools being its most recent targets.

His work has also included extensive experience representing clients including independent power producers, local distribution gas utilities, trucking companies, telecommunication companies as well as industrial, commercial and residential ratepayers, before the Louisiana Public Service Commission and other regulatory bodies requiring trials of rate cases and numerous compliant proceedings before state and federal courts.

The purpose of the relevant part of IAA 1999 was to ensure that any person wishing to provide immigration advice or services had either to be registered with the immigration services commissioner (who had statutory power under IAA 1999 to regulate the activities of persons so registered) or be a person subject to the regulatory control of one of the designated professional bodies.

And it goes to the very limits of its logic, by questioning whether even an appropriate amendment of the Treaty would make it possible to overcome the arguments which prevent regulatory powers from being conferred on agencies or whether there are, in other words, underlying principles in Community law that are not susceptible of constitutional amendment, which can not be reconciled with recognition of regulatory powers in the hands of bodies other than the three institutions.

In cases where confidentiality of sensitive information is a concern, erring on the side of caution is important since, unlike superior courts, which can prevent misuse of confidential information through court order, professional regulatory bodies have no express power to control what complainants do with information once in their possession.

In most cases, it is the regulatory body listed in the right column (not the representative body listed in the left) that has the power to authorize individuals and entities to carry out reserved activities, and that also has the power to take disciplinary action in relation to those same persons.

Tribunals and Charter values: For example, the decision in Doré makes clear that professional regulatory bodies making decisions or exercising powers that collide with Charter values, such as freedom of expression, are responsible for understanding those Charter values, respecting them, and balancing them with statutory objectives.

Appeal decision: A regulatory body has, in registration matters, a necessarily implied power to accept witness testimony on oath or affirmation, and to provide for the cross-examination of witnesses, where evidence of good character conflicts and turns on credibility: ``... an oral hearing is a necessary incidental power available to the Council in circumstances where evidence relevant to good character is in conflict, and credibility is in issue.

Limits of «reasonableness» on ethical and practice rules: Implied limits on the powers of professional regulatory bodies to superintend their professions was illustrated by the B.C. Supreme Court's decision that a college unreasonably exercised its by - law making powers in Sobeys West Inc. v. College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, 2014 BCSC 1414 (under appeal).

Given the nature of the present charges of corruption against these lawyers — and their confessions to misconduct — it seems unreasonable not to give the barreau (and other regulatory bodies) the power to suspend its members» licences, at least temporarily, while an investigation or criminal trial is underway.

Self - regulating professional bodies are granted broad regulatory powers because they are required to act in the public interest and not because they are licensing bodies.

Yes and no, there are regulatory bodies in the United States that operate on a state by state basis that try to ensure than an insurer is being financially responsible, and have powers to take action against an insurer if there are areas of concern regarding their solvency.

Ethereum News Update Among the power brokers at this week's DC Blockchain Summit was Brian Quintenz, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), who said there might be «potential» for a self - regulatory body.

Among the power brokers at this week's DC Blockchain Summit was Brian Quintenz, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), who said there might be «potential» for a self - regulatory body.

In a technical sense, it means that there exists legislation that delegates provincial powers of regulation to a professional association or regulatory body.