Sentence examples for reading of legislation from inspiring English sources
A fair reading of legislation demands a fair understanding of the legislative plan".
As the Chief Justice made clear at the conclusion of his opinion, the courts should respect that it is the role of Congress to make the laws, and "[a] fair reading of legislation demands a fair understanding of the legislative plan".
"A fair reading of legislation," the Court wrote, "demands a fair understanding of the legislative plan".
This option would allow MPs from all over the United Kingdom to debate and vote at the second reading, report and third reading stages of legislation that affects just England.
The first reading of the legislation shall be dispensed with.
He had pushed an especially narrow reading of disabilities legislation.
That's from my reading of the legislation, it is not an absolute".
From my reading of the legislation, an employer is required to listen to, and to not retaliate for, a request for shorter or flexible hours.
David Mann, a spokesman for Talisman Energy, said his lawyers' reading of the legislation was that it applied to companies actually operating in Sudan and not parent corporations like Talisman.
Lord Wallace of Tankerness said that while he understood the importance of the Salisbury convention – which dictates that the Lords does not oppose the second or third reading of any legislation promised in a governing party's election manifesto – the house "may wish to reflect on the strength of the mandate of the government".
According to an analysis by the U.K. Pesticide Safety Directorate, the rules drafted in the first reading of the legislation would have outlawed about 85% of pesticides currently in use.
