enabling act

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Synonyms for enabling act

a provision in a law that confers on appropriate officials the power to implement or enforce the law

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The 150-page enabling bill proposes a major change in the relationship between the province and local governments.
More than 150 MPs, nearly all of them Labour, have signed an early day motion expressing their determination to secure a total ban on hunting wild mammals with dogs and looking forward to an early introduction of an enabling Bill.
Back here, the Government has already set in place its power to strike down laws without recourse to parliament, impose curfews and restrict freedom of movement, and therefore speech, in last autumn's 'Enabling Bill'.
Earlier this year the Assembly asked the UK Government to pass an enabling Bill that would permit AMs to introduce a ban, but it was not included in the Queen's Speech.
The unilateral move by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff comes after the failure of the UK Government, lukewarm to the idea of such a ban, to include an enabling Bill in the Queen's Speech to give the National Assembly the power to take such a controversial step.
TAX reforms are needed to bankroll government's various social services, Senator Pia Cayetano said Wednesday, as Congress is poised to pass enabling bills providing upward adjustments in existing tax rates.
The enabling bills were introduced at the House of Representatives and Senate by Rep.
New regulations mean payments can be made in future years in up to 12 monthly installments enabling bills to be spread across a longer payment period.
The new website is critical in delivering the Customer First project, which will allow anyone in the city with access to broadband to have a personal account with the council - enabling bills to be paid and logging requests for services.
The new website is critical in delivering the Customer First project, which will allow anyone in Birmingham with access to a broadband computer to have a personal account with the council - enabling bills to be paid and requests for services to be logged on-line.
The Opposition spoke out against both, arguing that they are enabling bills that simply lay out a framework for future action.
The scope of SDF activities overseas expanded further with the enactment in 1999 of enabling bills for Japan-U.S.
Both the House and Senate passed enabling bills on May 18 creating 18 new circuit judgeships.
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