Delegated Legislation

Meaning
Delegated legislation may be defined as
legislation or rules of law made by some person
or body under authority given to that person or
body, by an act of parliament. This type of act
is called “the enabling act”. The enabling act
lays down the broad principle for the guidance
of the body to whom power to make law has
been entrusted. Delegated legislation may
exist in the form of, bye law, schemes, order,
notification, rules, regulation etc. Salmond
defines the expression “Delegated legislation”
as that which proceeds from any authority other
than sovereign power and is therefore dependent
for its continued existence and validity on some
superior or supreme authority2”