PO210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Law, Primary And Secondary Legislation, Responsible Government
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The state exercises its lawmaking, law executing, and even dispute resolving functions through a variety of departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and tribunals all of which are established, appointed, and funded by the government (executive branch). More often than not, these agencies represent the contact we have with the law . We encounter them, for example, when we make an application for social assistance or employment insurance (or, more currently, cerb and/or. ); and we encounter them in many other state-implicated activities besides. Administrative agencies do not have inherent powers, the scope of their authority is prescribed by legislation. We have already learned whence administrative agencies acquire their authority: it is prescribed by legislation, taking the form of subordinate legislation. The subordinate legislation must comply with the principles set out in the enabling statute, which can be more or less definitive in what those principles require.
