substantive legislation

collocation in English

meaningsofsubstantiveandlegislation

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substantive
adjective
uk
/səbˈstæn.tɪv/us
/səbˈstæn.t̬ɪv/
important, serious, or related to ...
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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 ofsubstantiveandlegislationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsubstantive legislation

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First, hierarchy-based forms of governance are limited and consist of mainly procedural and somesubstantivelegislationregulating the statutory health insurance.
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Does it mean that a provincial legislature may have power to make minor local adjustments orsubstantivelegislation?
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However, there has been great pressure for the necessarysubstantivelegislationin the meantime.
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I think it is necessary for moresubstantivelegislationto commence here.
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That, however, requiressubstantivelegislation, and there may be great difficulties of policy.
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The proper course will almost certainly be found to be that ofsubstantivelegislation.
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I hope that the history of attempts to blocksubstantivelegislationis now merely history.
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But this matter can be more appropriately dealt with insubstantivelegislation.
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He said thatsubstantivelegislationwould not be required.
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Subsection (1) creates in thesubstantivelegislationthe offence of supply contrary to safety regulations.
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I hope, however, that thesubstantivelegislationwill be based on the principle of the determination of fair rents by independent tribunals.
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It is the firstsubstantivelegislationconcerning the operation of the fire and rescue service in more than 50 years.
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On the face of it, that appears to be an ability to alter, by order, a financial limitation fixed bysubstantivelegislation.
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We do not have thesubstantivelegislationthat is required for us to have that knowledge.
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I made it clear that these matters would requiresubstantivelegislation.
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I think that matters as wide and significant as this will have to be dealt with insubstantivelegislation.
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It is the general assumption thatsubstantivelegislationis needed for this.
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We intend to introducesubstantivelegislationto deal with this and related matters as soon as possible.
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This should avoid the need forsubstantivelegislationif further alteration seems necessary at some future date.
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Substantivelegislationpassed without such knowledge of the field acted upon always entails the risk of doing as much harm as good.
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