What are Subordinate Legislation/Regulations?

Subordinate legislation is legislation made by a person or body to whom a parliament has delegated some of its own lawmaking powers. The most common form of subordinate legislation is regulations, which set out the administrative detail that will operate under an act of Parliament. The regulations may be referred to as statutory rules or statutory instruments. They are in force under a particular Act, e.g. the (Commonwealth) Migration Regulations are in force under the Commonwealth Migration Act 1958.

In most jurisdictions regulations must be tabled in one or both Houses of Parliament, and they may be disallowed.

Other forms of subordinate legislation are rules, by-laws, orders and local government laws or ordinances.

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