penal legislation

collocation in English

meaningsofpenalandlegislation

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penal
adjective
uk
/ˈpiː.nəl/us
/ˈpiː.nəl/
of or relating to punishment given ...
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legislation
noun[U]
uk
/ˌledʒ.ɪˈsleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌledʒ.əˈsleɪ.ʃən/
a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by ...
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(Definition ofpenalandlegislationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Certainpenallegislationdealing with labour offences has been revoked.
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He is now embarking on a most serious confrontation with local government by threatening unprecedentedpenallegislation.
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I emphasise the words "when it carries a penalty" because there is a considerable distinction betweenpenallegislationand an act of indemnity.
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If sanctions are as ineffective as claimed, why this heavypenallegislation?
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We have only to remind ourselves of the commitment topenallegislation, or the commitment not to devalue.
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To solve industrial conflicts there has to be trust and goodwill, which are qualities that cannot be produced throughpenallegislation.
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It is our industrial climate that is bad, and no amount ofpenallegislationwill alter it.
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We hadpenallegislationin years that are gone, and it never led to any solution.
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It is obvious that he is not interested in saving the free service but in introducingpenallegislationto destroy it.
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I am very disturbed about another matter which has a bearing onpenallegislation.
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He refers topenallegislationand to the bachelor tax introduced to drive men into marriage.
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But, in other respects, it constitutes a seriously retrogressive break with recent reformingpenallegislation.
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Farmers are not good enough, and nor are employees' and employers' collective agreements,penallegislation, national judges or the voters.
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I suggest that it is no good trying to correct inequalities of nature or of opportunity bypenallegislation.
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Yet this has happened, if a little slowly, without anypenallegislation.
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Certainly the protection of employees can properly be subject topenallegislation.
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Although the restrictions on shop opening provide indirect protection, it is not easy to defend the retention ofpenallegislationon that ground.
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Ourpenallegislationthese days goes very far.
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But that safeguard against a local authority framing, on its own responsibility, legislation which ispenallegislationmay not be altogether sufficient.
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He said that the main body of the public have to be protected bypenallegislationfrom the errors of a very small minority.
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