enabling legislation

1. 1.

   legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law

   Broaderlegislation

   law

Questions about enabling legislation

What does enabling legislation mean?

enabling legislation means "legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law".

Is enabling legislation a common word?

enabling legislation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.