KEY CASES/ STATUTES/EXAMPLES (Delegated Legislation)📁

Question 1

Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006

Answer 1

Under the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006, ministers can use legislative reform orders to change the law to remove or reduce burdens imposed by legislation or to promote better regulation.

Question 2

Procedural ultra vires

Answer 2

Aylesbury mushroom case 1972

Question 3

Substantive ultra vires

Answer 3

R v Secretary of State for education and employment ex parte- National Union of teachers 2000

Question 4

Example of enabling act

Answer 4

access to justice 1999 which gave the Lord Chancellor wide powers to alter various aspects of the legal funding scheme.

Question 5

Example of order in Council

Answer 5

For example, the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (Product Liability) (Modification) Order 2000 extended the scope of consumer protection law to agricultural products, to comply with a European Directive. Matters of foreign affairs are often dealt with by Order in Council, as for example the Afghanistan (United Nations Sanctions) Order 2001.

Question 6

Example of Statutory instrument

Answer 6

an example would be the Building regulations 2010 under the Building act 1984. Police Powers under PACE

Question 7

Example of a by law

Answer 7

Local Government Act 1972 allows local authorities to make their own laws against causing damage to road signs and urinating in public.