Sentence examples for part of a statute from inspiring English sources

Well, this is part of a statute.

The bill being debated in the Lords on Tuesday proposes that a director of children's services could ask the secretary of state to suspend part of a statute or guidance so social workers in that area could, for up to six years, try out an idea they believe would benefit children but that would, at present, be against the law.

Hill said that because the Constitution was enacted as part of a statute of the British Imperial Parliament it derived its validity from British law.

And if one wants to build a case of a "slippery slope," of "the ends not justifying the means," of "suspending the Constitution," of "the death of America," on an, in my opinion, subjective, part of a statute, it certainly can be done it has been done.

"When one part of a statute is ruled unconstitutional, courts are not supposed to strike down other parts of the same law unless they are inextricably connected and Congress would not have intended the latter to function without the former," Somin wrote for Reason's Volokh Conspiracy blog.

As stated in Forsythe v. Longboat Key Beach Erosion Control Dist., "all parts of a statute must be read together in order to achieve a consistent whole.

Justice David H. Souter noted that Section 5 was part of a broader statute that set out the procedures for handling Electoral College disputes on the floor of Congress.

Interestingly, in a break with some of my liberal kin, I don't mind the use of the word alien, for two reasons: It's part of the statute -- a term of art, as we lawyers say.

To prevent further appeals on the matter, Parliament repealed, as a part of the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971, the sections of the Acts of Union relating to the election of Irish representative peers.

But having something that's a non-fiscal item -- a separate part of the statute put into the emergency bill, with hardly any review and it's very complex -- we're the first state in the nation to have it -- the bill will pass.

Even if the court rules in industry's favor, the EPA is expected to continue to develop the power plant rules under a different part of the statute.