Sentence examples for private legislation from inspiring English sources

The fate of class actions should be decided by our elected representatives, not by private legislation tucked into the fine print of take-it-or-leave-it contracts.

He was the first president to use the veto power extensively to block the enactment of this type of private legislation.

Eventually, the government had to take over what had been private legislation to gets its way - and parliamentary procedures were changed as a result.

A spokesperson for Uber told The Independent: "In the UK Uber is fully licensed and regulated and abides by all private hire legislation.

Here's what else we're reading this morning:  State officials are considering making teacher evaluations again private, through legislation, to maintain the fragile truce over the new evaluation system.

Why not then also reimburse the Catholic and other private schools?" Legislation is now pending in Albany to amend the tax so that independent schools can also be reimbursed.

The Tories have been forced to fall back on private members' legislation as their Lib Dem coalition partners have refused to sanction a government bill, which would have a much greater prospect of success.

"We will consult on proposals to make changes to private hire legislation as appropriate.

This would be controversial - there have already been pungent complaints that this bill is being treated more favourably than other private members legislation, and the peers' procedural bible, the Companion to the Standing Orders, says that the normal timescales should not be reduced except for a bill of no great length and complexity.

As far back as 1985, following changes to private rental legislation, Leeds University Union undertook a study of private rented accommodation and found that while student landlords were benefitting from rents set well above market levels, there was little evidence that much of the profits were being reinvested in upgrading the properties.

There is also federal private sector legislation [ 11].