Sentence examples for preceding legislation from inspiring English sources

The white paper preceding legislation said the aim was "to provide legal advice for those of slender means and resources, so that no one would be financially unable to prosecute a just and reasonable claim or defend a legal right; and to allow counsel and solicitors to be remunerated for their services".

31 The preceding legislation of Zaleucus has been cited as an example of "imperfect" laws, that is, those which lack any penal sanction other than the offender's sense of shame or the infamy attaching to him (cp. S. Pufendorf, De jure naturae et gentium, 1.6.14).

The Act would supersede all preceding legislation not in line with the Convention, and accord to the Convention a legal status that could be directly invoked within the domestic legal system.

For those living in homes where there was smoking inside on most days and from social classes III, IV, and V, there was no evidence that the OR of undetectable cotinine or the decrease in geometric mean cotinine between the first and second halves of 2007 were significantly greater than in other 6-month comparisons in the 9 years preceding legislation.

"It's a very simple fact that the novels of Dickens preceded legislation that stopped children working in factories.

The UK Government has published a White paper on Electricity Market Reform, which precedes legislation with a declared aim of delivering secure, clean and decarbonised electricity supply.

In addition to these state laws, a small number of cities have longstanding local lead laws aimed at housing-based primary prevention; in fact, several local laws preceded federal lead legislation (Freudenberg and Golub 1987).

Further acts of parliament prevented the acquisition of land by "natives" and limited movement by a draconian system of internal passports, preceding apartheid legislation by 25 years.

The level of support for quota management was just over 50% in 1993 and remained at this level until the months preceding the legislation being tabled in Parliament, when there was a dramatic increase in support resulting in a petition being presented signed by 67% of the licence-holders.

Theoretically, a human could be cloned this way but this is already illegal in Britain, whether or not animal material is used.Scientists hope the parliamentary debate that must precede new legislation will clear up any misunderstandings and allow supporters to put the case for this essential development in stem-cell research.

Major claims have been made about the quality of the debates that preceded this legislation and the significance of those debates for UK decision-making on other biotechnologies, as well as for other countries considering similar legislation.