The word "legislated" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe situations in which laws or regulations are set or enforced by a legislative body. For example: "The new law was legislated by the local government to increase safety in the area."
Searching for savings at the end of its term in government, Labor said it was indefinitely deferring the already legislated changes because the floating carbon price was forecast to be far lower than originally calculated and families did not need as much compensation.
There are no values that I can espouse as a humanist that are anti-female, but there are a number of values of feminism that are alien to me – such as the notion that equality is more important than opportunity and choice, and that it can be legislated.
If the Abbott Government is successful at getting its "direct action" policy legislated, then the Prime Minister has already said there'll be no extra cash if his policy falls short the five per cent target (most analysts would replace my conjunction 'if' with the word 'when').
Australia became the first country to scrap a carbon price and, with the Coalition's widely unloved Direct Action alternative yet to be legislated, the nation is in the unhappy position of having no specific policy to lower carbon emissions.
If we hadn't legislated, the impact would have been felt in deteriorating community relations and in racists exploiting the issue.
The topsy turvy tax debate centres on a tax cut due to take effect from 1 July this year that was legislated as the second part of family compensation for Labor's carbon pricing scheme.
Denis MacShane, the Europe minister, claimed: "It is now Conservative party policy to pass national legislation which would mean Britain would be in breach of its solemn European Union treaty obligations as legislated by parliament.
A survey by the University of Berkeley two years ago, he said, "clearly shows that people want the right to be forgotten to be legislated by US congress".
But what is of even more significance, he said, was the "84% of 18- to 24-year-olds – those born into the digital age – who want the right to be forgotten to be legislated.
Many of the speakers condemned the threats made by European donors that aid would be withdrawn should the bill be legislated.
Under Gillard's leadership Labor legislated a carbon price, a national disability insurance scheme, aged care reform and a new needs-based system of education funding, which passed the Senate on the same day she was deposed.
