ACCA Applied Skills · Corporate and Business Law (Global) · Business, political and legal systems
Parliament in country Zandia delegates power to the Minister of Transport to make detailed safety regulations under an enabling Act. The Minister then issues a regulation setting out vehicle inspection procedures. What is this regulation known as?
The regulation is delegated legislation. The legislature passed an enabling Act that authorised the Minister to make detailed rules, so the Minister's regulation is secondary law made under that authority, rather than a primary Act of the legislature or a court-made precedent.
- ADelegated legislationCorrect
- BAn Act of the legislature
- CA judicial precedent
Explanation
Where the legislature passes an enabling (parent) Act that gives another person or body power to make rules, the rules made are delegated (secondary) legislation. It is not a primary Act because it is made by the Minister, and it is not precedent because it is not a court decision.
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