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The phrase "a statutory prohibition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a law or regulation that explicitly forbids certain actions or behaviors.
Example: "The company must comply with a statutory prohibition against discrimination in the workplace."
Alternatives: "a legal ban" or "a regulatory restriction".
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Following Congressional investigation of left-wing and right-wing extremist political groups in the mid-1930s, support grew for a statutory prohibition of their activities.
"We believe this is a clear case of violating a statutory prohibition that prevents outside spending groups from republishing campaign materials prepared by a candidate's campaign – in this case so called 'B-Roll' footage of Senator McConnell," Democracy 21 executive director Fred Wertheimer said in a statement.
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A spokesman for Ofcom said: "We don't consider there is a direct statutory prohibition on Channel 4 owning a minority stake in an independent production company.
One limitation on any charge of bribery is that some element of "corrupt purpose" must be implied or proved, which means that in the absence of a complete statutory prohibition on the granting of favours to a public official, a gift is not a bribe unless there has been some intent to influence the official behaviour of the recipient.
Did he really pledge a "statutory" ban on higher taxes?
"There is a strong case for getting rid of the statutory prohibition on new grammar schools to allow parents and communities the type of education that they want," he said.
Indeed, it wasn't even a difficult case according to the Court ("no question but that the statutory prohibition contained in § 1008 is constitutional").. Why? How? Well the doctors at issue worked in family planning clinics that had received at least some of their funds from the government.
Inherent authority absent statutory authorization is different from inherent authority in the face of statutory prohibition.
"There is no statutory prohibition on the use of live text-based communications in open court.
The case involved figuring out what comes within the statutory prohibition of theft of trade secrets and interstate transportation of stolen property.
"In Canada, there is no defined statutory prohibition against" circumventing the piracy technology built into videogame consoles, he says.
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