Subordinate Legislation


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Subordinate Legislation in Canada

Definition of Subordinate Legislation

Subordinate Legislation meaning or descrpition: legislation made by a body other than Parliament or a provincial legislature (such as Cabinet, a Cabinet minister, an agency, or a municipal council), as authorized by statute; generally includes regulations, proclamations, rules, orders, bylaws, or other instruments; also called “delegated legislation”; distinguished from statutes (Source of this concept of Subordinate Legislation: emp.ca/books/330-7)

Concept of Subordinate Legislation

A definition of Subordinate Legislation may be the following: Legislation made not by Parliament but by persons or bodies on whom Parliament has conferred power to legislate on specified subjects (The Oxford Companion to Law by David M. Walker, 1982, p. 347). See also the entry about Delegated Legislation .

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  1. Statutes
  2. delegated or subordinate legislation above

    3. Legislation

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