Sentence examples for this secondary legislation from inspiring English sources

This secondary legislation has doubled in the past 20 years, leading to the question raised by Porter: how does the government make so much law without anyone noticing?

Might he now publish a proper reckoning of the impact of these cuts on the nation's strivers?" A Treasury spokesman said: "This week we provided the secondary legislation scrutiny committee with an impact assessment on the government's reforms to tax credits set out in the summer budget, which they had previously requested.

Foreign oil companies will be watching the detail of the secondary legislation.

The chancellor responded by promising to offer parliament the opportunity to examine the secondary legislation spelling out the changes in more detail in the new year.

Many firms have put expansion plans on hold until they see how the secondary legislation detailing the government's constitutional changes turns out in Congress.

The Lords has not enjoyed a final veto on primary legislation in a century, and if statutory instruments had been common in 1911, the Parliament Act would surely also have scotched the secondary legislation veto.

One option is to allow peers to vote down statutory instruments – the vehicle for the tax credit cuts – but for the secondary legislation to then go back to the Commons and not return to the Lords, he said.

EU law is like the secondary legislation that often goes through our own parliament on the nod, providing that a minister has powers delegated by a full-blown act.

He will then launch a debate on the secondary legislation to set the date for the referendum on 23 June and to allow the Electoral Commission to designate the two "lead" campaigns.

I think that's why we feel part of the solution is the government looking at this through secondary legislation".

The government can also override primary legislation blocked by the Lords using the Parliament Act, but this does not apply to secondary legislation, the type used for the tax credit cuts, which can be killed off with a fatal motion.