delegated legislation

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delegated legislation

laws made under a higher authority. Usually the power to make such legislation is delegated to a minister of the government or to a local authority. The names under which such legislation appears are many and various, including orders in council, rules, regulations, statutory instruments or bye-laws.
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In principle, the federal government has no objection in implementing the demands concerning the devolution of power to the Sarawak and Sabah governments to make subsidiary legislation on 'labour conditions peculiar to the state' under the respective Labour Ordinance of the respective states.
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