'legislative competence' is correct and can be used in written English when referring to the power of a legislature to pass laws.
For example: The government was granted legislative competence by the local parliament to pass a new tax law.
Any modification of the National Assembly's legislative competence by primary legislation passed by the UK parliament would engage the Sewel Convention, under which the Assembly's consent would be sought to any changes to its legislative competence.
The regions have administrative competence in all fields in which they have legislative competence.
He added that the earlier transfer of legislative competence, planned for next year, gives the Scottish government options.
(2) Subsection (1) does not impose any duty which it would be within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament to impose.
This is because giving notification under article 50 will inevitably result in the modification of the legislative competence of the National Assembly and the powers of the Welsh government under the Government of Wales Act 2006.
First you need the legislative competence in order to bring before this parliament the draft bill that you will be entitled to scrutinise, which itself forms the framework on which we can then begin to deliver on executive competence".
It had legislative competences in court and administrative law.
For this purpose, the legislative competences of the European Community should be expanded to promote effective and binding EC regulation.
Our rapporteur has distinguished himself with the survey he has compiled and included in his working paper on the relationships between the central and local levels in the EU's Member States and in the candidate countries, which reveals that, below the level of a Member State's central government, the regions or federal states possess the most diverse legislative competences.
Government may take race into account when it acts not to demean or insult any racial group, but to remedy disadvantages cast on minorities by past racial prejudice, at least when appropriate findings have been made by judicial, legislative, or administrative bodies with competence to act in this area.
As an added benefit, those who believe that term limits for officeholders diminish the competence and capabilities of legislative bodies will be able to claim that they nevertheless do support such limits when they make sense.
