enabling act

See also: Enabling Act

English

Noun

enabling act (plural enabling acts)

1. (politics) Legislation piece enacted by a legislative body that authorizes a dependent entity to exercise specific powers or undertake certain actions.
   • 1987 December 17, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “A Diplomatic Incident”, in Yes, Prime Minister, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):

     I know an enabling act can enable anything, but the Prime Minister feels it would merely enable him to lose the next general election (laugh track).

Hyponyms

• act

Translations

law authorizing a dependent entity to take certain actions

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 授權法 / 授权法

• Dutch: machtigingswet m or f
• Esperanto: plenpoviga leĝo
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: machtigingswet c

• German: Ermächtigungsgesetz n
• Spanish: ley habilitante f