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Home Dictionary Name: delegateDelegated legislation
Delegated legislation, Delegated Legislation has been defined by Salmond as 'that which proceeds from any authority other than the sovereign power and is therefore dependent for its continued exis-tence and validity on some superior or supreme authority'. (See: Salmond, Jurisprudence, 12th Edn., page 116), Agricultural Marks Committees v. Shalimar Chemical Works, AIR 1997 SC 2502 (2506): (1997) 5 SCC 516.Most of the delegated legislation is called statutory instruments, they are to be laid before Parliament and are subject to approval or disapproval by either House; Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 576.In England, the practice of delegating legislative power increased tremendously after the Reform Bill of 1872 and reforms in Local Government, the first world was caused a further rapid rise in delegated legislation, The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, by Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 200.The Parliament lays down the principles of law an...
Delegation
The act of delegating or investing with authority to act for another the appointment of a delegate or delegates...
Delegation
Delegation, a sending away; a putting into commission; the assignment of a debt to another; the entrusting another with a power to act in the place of those who depute him.Delegate, to delegate to another is not to denude yourself, Ishwar Singh v. State of Rajasthan, (2005) 2 SCC 334.The Indian Constitution accepts the English principle of supremacy of the law in this respect or property, no person can be deprived of it except by authority of law, Constitution of India, Art. 300A.By an agent, that is the entrusting to another person by an agent of the exercise of a power or duty entrusted to him by his principal is in general prohibited, under the maxim delegatus non-potest delegare, without the express authority of the principal, or authority derived from statute, Halsbury's Laws of England 1(2), para 63, p. 49....
Delegation of authority of power
Delegation of authority of power, is a term which like the word 'delegate' does not imply a parting with powers by the person who grants the delegation, but points rather to the conferring of an authority to do things which otherwise that person would have to himself, Ishwar Singh v. State of Rajasthan, (2005) 2 SCC 334....
delegable
delegable : capable of being delegated del·e·ga·bil·i·ty [de-lə-gə-bi-lə-tē] n ...
delegant
delegant : one that delegates ...
delegation
delegation 1 : the act of delegating 2 : a group of persons chosen to represent others ...
Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure
Delegation of subsidiary or ancillary measure, when a legislature is given plenary power to legislate on a particular subject there must also be an implied power to make laws incidental to the exercise of such power. It is a fundamental principle of constitutional law that everything necessary to the exercise of a power is included in the grant of the power. A legislature cannot certainly strip itself of its essential functions and vest the same on an extraneous authority. The primary duty of law making has to be discharged by the legislature itself but delegation may be resorted to as a subsidiary or an ancillary measure, Edward Mills Co. v. State of Ajmer, AIR 1955 SC 25 (32) (Constitution of India, Art. 245)....
delegate
delegate [Medieval Latin delegatus, from Latin, past participle of delegare to appoint, put in charge] : a person empowered to act on behalf of another: as a : a person who is authorized to perform another's duties under a contract b : a representative to a convention (as of a political party) or conference c : a representative of a U.S. territory in the House of Representatives d : a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland, Virginia, or West Virginia [de-li-gāt] vb -gat·ed -gat·ing vt 1 : to entrust or transfer (as power, authority, or responsibility) to another: as a : to transfer (one's contractual duties) to another b : to empower a body (as an administrative agency) to perform (a governmental function) see also nondelegation doctrine 2 : to appoint as one's representative vi : to transfer responsibility or authority ...
house of delegates
house of delegates :house ;esp : the lower house of the state legislature in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia ...
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