Sentence examples for legislative instruments from inspiring English sources

The distribution of documents was relatively even: acts and amendments, 30%; policy and developing legislation, 19%; internal documents, 26%; and legislative instruments, 25%.

Because these risks are so widespread, there is a rise of legislative instruments to address them.

Not even the legislative instruments that the ECB asks the government to use have been left out".

The law has been widely hailed as one of the best legislative instruments in the world for controlling arms middlemen.

We were surprised by the degree of consensus on the need for reform of drug policy; the fact that the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 simply cannot cope with the modern polydrug culture; and the impossibility of effectively controlling the supply of "legal highs" using existing legislative instruments.

The headlines for me are that "contracts for differences" turn out not be "contracts" at all, but legislative instruments, and the capacity mechanism intended to guarantee security of supply is simply an option that would be exercised if there appeared to be a real risk of the lights going out.

It would be a legislative instrument to prevent people resettled elsewhere from then applying to come to Australia by another migration channel.

That legislative instrument turned out to be another retrogressive force in the South, albeit a more benign one than segregation was.

The chief legislative instrument is the Australian Border Force Act, enacted last year, which which carries a two-year prison term for disclosure of "protected information" by an "entrusted person", which includes all department staff, anybody hired by the department, or hired by a department contractor or subcontractor, to perform any role within the detention system.

In a statement, Mr Bowen said he had "signed the legislative instrument designating the Republic of Nauru as a regional processing country".

A regulation is a more powerful legislative instrument for EU lawmakers as it's binding across all Member States and immediately comes into legal force on a set date, without needing to be transposed into national laws.