Sentence examples for as a statutory from inspiring English sources

Ordinary banks have to deposit half their assets with the central bank, at zero interest, as a statutory reserve.

By addressing the issue as a statutory ballot measure, the lawmakers managed to bypass Mr. Nixon, whose signature would otherwise be needed.

Unlike Britain's Bribery Act, it does not regard robust internal safeguards as a statutory defence (only as a potential mitigating factor).

It would put an end to the continuing financial protection that C4 enjoys today as a statutory corporation where all profits are returned to the business.

The motion which Meacher had planned to table is known as a "fatal" one because it would have killed the government measure, known as a statutory instrument.

May is considering three options to reconstitute the independent inquiry as a statutory investigation, after complaints from some survivors about the lack of transparency over their appointment.

As well as an inquiry, a statutory code of practice was required to eradicate blacklisting, the committee said.

While Trudeau has already promised to fulfill some of the committee's recommendations, like increasing education funding, some — such as creating a statutory holiday to commemorate those who survived abuse at state-run residential schools, and re-writing the Canadian oath of citizenship to incorporate recognition of indigenous peoples — might prove more trickier to adopt.

Blatter, who as president has a statutory responsibility for the line management of Fifa's secretary general, refused to express any view about Valcke's explanation.

Labour sources in the Lords said they could not think of such an open criticism of government legislation by a serving lord chief justice, pointing out that it puts an onus on the lord chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, to act as he has a statutory responsibility to protect the independence of the judiciary.

The inquiry was actually three separate inquiries, together called the Victoria Climbié Inquiry, as it had a statutory base of three pieces of legislation: section 81 of the Children Act 1989, section 84 of the National Health Service Act 1977, and section 49 of the Police Act 1996.