The phrase "a special legislation" is not correct in standard English; it should be "special legislation" without the article "a." You can use "special legislation" when referring to laws or regulations that are designed for a specific purpose or situation.
Example: "The government enacted special legislation to address the urgent needs of the community after the disaster."
Alternatives: "specific legislation" or "targeted legislation."
The status of the capital city of Warsaw is regulated by a special legislation.
A specific recommendation was made after national level consultations in January 2010 to focus on a special legislation on sexual offenses.
The HRT is limited by a special legislation regulating that broadcaster to four minutes of advertising in prime time period between 6 and 10 in the evening.
In Italy, until 1981 there was even a special legislation concerning "honor killings," essentially exempting men found guilty of assassinating a female relative from serving long periods in jail.
The Paterson administration will ask the Assembly to delay sending the bill to the governor's desk, officials said, and will try to devise a new version of the legislation before a special legislative session next month.
The lawyer is protected, by class legislation, in frivolous prosecutions of the doctor, but the doctor is denied the same legislation to repel these attacks on his reputation, skill and purse, because the lawyer, as a legislator, objects to special legislation for any class except his own.
In modern times, moreover, a mass of special legislation has grown outside the code to cover new needs.
The Maryland decisions proceed on the assumption that municipal corporations assailing a statute of exemption or other special legislation have an interest in the controversy which entities them to be heard (City of Baltimore v. Starr Church, supra; City of Baltimore v. Allegany County Com'rs, 99 Md. 1, 57 A. 632), though the reports do not show that their interest was questioned.
As a case in point, Denmark has adopted special legislation that gives allotment gardens a permanent status [ 50].
(3) Properties subject to special legislation directing a particular action.
"We don't need special legislation for a guy like me who has thin hair on the top and wears eyeglasses".
