Sentence examples for modernising legislation from inspiring English sources

The upper house has often overruled the lower one in the past four years, while the pace of modernising legislation has slowed down.Wefaq especially wants the prime minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa, the king's uncle, who has held the post since 1971, to be publicly called to account before parliament and removed.

It will completely overhaul and modernise legislation concerning detergents.

Sir David Lloyd Jones, the chairman of the Law Commission for England and Wales, and Lord Pentland, the chairman of the Scottish Law Commission, said: "[We] are committed to cleaning up and modernising our legislation.

Revising and modernising water legislation and strengthening the mechanisms for its implementation.

The following are some of the measures being taken by these countries: Revising and modernising water legislation and strengthening the mechanisms for its implementation.

The U.K. government has also said it intends to "modernise" surveillance legislation in a forthcoming Investigatory Powers Bill.

Patiently, he listed the political work ignored by the popular press: legislation modernising property ownership law, setting up national parks, dealing with the neglected rights of people incapacitated by illness and improving standards in schools is all under way.

Since 1997, the UK's Tax Law Rewrite Project has been modernising the UK's tax legislation, starting with income tax, while the legislation imposing corporation tax has itself been amended; the rules governing income tax and corporation tax have thus diverged.

In a new report, Keeping The Wheels Turning: Modernising The Legal Framework of Industrial Relations, the CBI outlined further measures it says would modernise employment relations legislation.

The case is particularly notable as an example of judicial legislation, with the judges significantly modernising the law and moving it forward in a way Parliament had not considered.

(The relevant passage in the Queen's speech merely says that "new legislation will modernise the law on communications data").