Section 134: Subsidiary legislation

Parliament may, in an Act of Parliament, delegate power to make statutory instruments within the scope of and for the purposes laid out in that Act, but—

    (a) Parliament’s primary law-making power must not be delegated;

    (b) statutory instruments must not infringe or limit any of the rights and freedoms set out

in the Declaration of Rights;

    (c) statutory instruments must be consistent with the Act of Parliament under which they

are made;

    (d) the Act must specify the limits of the power, the nature and scope of the statutory

instrument that may be made, and the principles and standards applicable to the

statutory instrument;

    (e) statutory instruments do not have the force of law unless they have been published in

the Gazette; and

    (f) statutory instruments must be laid before the National Assembly in accordance with its

Standing Orders and submitted to the Parliamentary Legal Committee for scrutiny.

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