Unit 4: Delegated Legislation, its Constitutionality and Limitation
4.1 Delegated Legislation: Meaning and Importance
The meaning: the subordinate law-making — the executive’s rules-regulations-under the statute’s authority (the parent act’s delegation; the child instrument’s limits). The importance: the modern state’s machinery (the statute’s skeleton + the rules’ flesh); the volume (the rules outnumber the acts); the specialisation (the technical schedules); the speed (the market’s-and-emergency’s quick adjustments); the flexibility (the amendment’s ease).
4.2 Nature and Constitutionality of Conditional Delegation and Sub-Delegation
- The conditional delegation’s constitutionality: the delegation-with-standards valid (the policy’s parliamentary retention + the details’ executive filling); the essential-legislative-function bar (the abdication — the parliament’s surrender unconstitutional); the Henry VIII clauses (the rules-amending-the-act’s faces — the suspect devices).
- The sub-delegation: the delegate’s own delegation (the further passing-down) — the general rule’s suspicion (the delegate’s power personal — the sub-delegation void unless authorised); the authorised sub-delegation’s discipline.
- The Nepali frame: the constitution’s law-making provisions (the federal parliament’s powers; the delegated faces’ authorisation); the Interpretation of Statute Act 2010 B.S.’s machinery; the practice’s volume (the rules-and-regulations of every ministry).
4.3 Scope and Limitation
The scope’s legitimate ends: the details-and-implementation; the schedules-and-standards; the procedure’s rules; the contingency’s filling. The limitations: the essential-powers’ retention (the tax’s imposition, the offence’s creation, the rights’ deprivation — the parliament’s own); the standards’ requirement (the intelligible principles — the guidance’s presence); the publication (the Gazette — the unknowable law’s bar); the retrospectivity’s caution; the territorial limits.
4.4 Controlling Mechanisms over Delegated Legislation
4.4.1 Legislative Scrutiny and Committee Process
The parliament’s checks: the laying (the rules’ tabling — the notification-and-annulment designs); the committees (the delegated-legislation committees’ review — the scrutiny’s parliamentary face); the questions-and-debates; the amendment-or-annulment powers (the Act’s provision-dependent). The Nepali practice:
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