Crossword clues for statutory
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
statutory
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a legal/statutory requirement
▪ There is no legal requirement to carry identity papers.
a statutory duty (=required by law)
▪ Local authorities have a statutory duty to ensure that parks are clean.
a statutory obligationformal (= something that the law says must be done)
▪ The Local Authority has a statutory obligation to provide education.
statutory offence
statutory rape
statutory regulations (=that are fixed or controlled by law)
▪ All government bodies are bound by statutory regulations on, for instance, race and sex discrimination.
the legal/statutory minimum (=the least amount the law says you must have)
▪ The wage was often well below the legal minimum.
the statutory/legal maximum (=one set by law)
▪ The legal maximum for election contributions was $1,000.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
account
▪ Section 240 seeks to ensure that recipients of the latter will not confuse them with statutory accounts.
agency
▪ Mr. Needham All the statutory agencies in Northern Ireland do whatever they can to boost investment.
▪ I also lobby statutory agencies, county councils and voluntary organisations.
▪ There should be some monitoring of what the statutory agencies were doing in relation to West Belfast.
▪ Alcohol and drug misusers may fear approaching statutory agencies for help, especially if they are parents.
▪ She has criticisms against statutory agencies who do nothing about this for fear of being branded racists.
audit
▪ The statutory audit of the Health Authorities is now under the Audit Commission's responsibilities.
▪ Before the 1983 Act, it had been suggested that these statutory audits were supplemented by economy, efficiency and effectiveness audits.
▪ This view of the statutory audit has other important consequences.
▪ And, in practice, the external auditor will take account of this in carrying out the statutory audit.
authority
▪ A local authority derives its powers from statutory authority.
▪ He must be on the premises lawfully, either by virtue of a warrant, under statutory authority or by consent.
▪ It is not clear whether mandamus is available in respect of any failure by a statutory authority to perform a statutory duty.
▪ The World Heritage designation has no statutory authority in Britain.
▪ Its effect is to expose to restraining action in the courts any local authority activity not backed by statutory authority.
▪ In many cities, most vacant land was not owned by local government but by the private sector and statutory authorities.
▪ Pleasant as it would be, we reviewers enjoy no statutory authority.
▪ The role will include liaising with social services departments, other statutory authorities and national and regional blind groups.
basis
▪ That amendment would put the youth service on a proper statutory basis.
▪ Enforcement following assignment of the reversion Liability of T towards L2 and vice-versa rests upon a statutory basis.
body
▪ It could be argued that this is far more likely to occur to a self-regulatory body than to a statutory body.
▪ If this is the argument it neglects the fact that statutory bodies are given very specific powers.
▪ There are some good arguments for tax payers' money being channelled to social service providers that are not statutory bodies.
▪ It is an independent statutory body, which can give you advice and may take up your enquiry with Royal Mail.
▪ The Action Teams also work in partnership with the other government departments I have mentioned and numerous other voluntary and statutory bodies.
▪ These were introduced in July 1983 when the new statutory bodies for the professions came into being.
▪ We also update the statutory bodies on aspects of the illness and its management.
construction
▪ As to the question of statutory construction I should myself have construed the section in favour of the taxpayer without recourse to Hansard.
▪ The Lord Chancellor, Lord Mackay, concurred with allowing the taxpayers' appeal on the grounds of statutory construction alone.
▪ The point is a short one of statutory construction which appears to be free from authority.
▪ However, both the statutory construction of the company and the Caparo judgment embody a principle which should endure.
▪ His Lordship realised the implications of the majority judgments and pointed out that the Order bristled with words requiring statutory construction.
▪ An aid to construction Next I must refer to an established principle of statutory construction which looms large on this appeal.
control
▪ He possesses one form of statutory control, i.e. unreasonableness.
▪ Old approach to interpretation Until the 1970s there was no statutory control upon exemption clauses.
▪ There are other differences, for example, as regards the statutory controls over exclusion clauses.
declaration
▪ The Law Society will require evidence such as a marriage certificate, deed poll or statutory declaration.
definition
▪ It is not to be treated as if it were a statutory definition.
▪ If a statutory definition were to be promulgated, it would lead to confusion, and a spate of litigation.
▪ Would the new statutory definition be taken as a fresh start?
▪ Rather the court gave an authoritative ruling on how the statutory definition applies in the case of a motor vehicle.
▪ Despite the recent advent of statute law in this area, there remains no statutory definition of what constitutes insider trading.
▪ There could, of course, be an entirely new statutory definition either wider or more restricted than existing law.
▪ A degree of statutory definition has been enacted in the past, without any noticeable subsequent insuperable or oppressive difficulties.
demand
▪ Even now he has not done so, although the judge set aside the statutory demand nearly five months ago.
▪ If a statutory demand is served, the debtor has only a limited period within which to apply to set it aside.
▪ Counsel submitted that service of a statutory demand constitutes the bringing of an action within the meaning of section 69.
▪ A statutory demand dated 15 August was served on the debtor on 21 August.
▪ The statutory demand was admittedly excessive in that it ought not to have included the sum of £146-odd mentioned above.
▪ The assessment was determined by the General Commissioners and a statutory demand subsequently served on the debtor to recover the tax payable.
▪ A statutory demand is one of the statutorily prescribed prerequisites to obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order.
▪ This disbursement was paid by Marshalls some time ago but not until after the statutory demand had been served.
duty
▪ The plaintiff must prove that but for the breach of statutory duty he would not have suffered the injury.
▪ He sued the defendants on the grounds of their vicarious liability for his brother's negligence and breach of statutory duty.
▪ The defendant employer was in breach of statutory duty in removing safety belts from a building site.
▪ It is not clear whether mandamus is available in respect of any failure by a statutory authority to perform a statutory duty.
▪ A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives.
▪ Proving the breach of statutory duty establishes a primafacie case.
▪ The action for breach of statutory duty is advantageous to the plaintiff when the statutory duty is strict or absolute.
▪ But many statutory duties are couched in quite vague terms which leave it unclear what the duty-bearer must do in concrete situations.
form
▪ The powers conferred by section 14 are new, at least in their statutory form.
▪ The citizen ought to be able to find the basic law, the principal law, in statutory form.
▪ Indeed, as the new offence is defined, it creates what is essentially a statutory form of assault.
framework
▪ The work often occurs within a statutory framework because levels of risk and vulnerability are high.
▪ We will provide a statutory framework of protection, including employee representation on occupational pension trusts.
▪ This statutory framework will be discussed in Chapter 3.
▪ A good starting point is the statutory framework within which they are working.
instrument
▪ All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect.
▪ In order to override that, they intend to introduce a statutory instrument.
▪ Mr. Speaker With permission, I will put together the Questions on the statutory instruments.
▪ A code of practice is not legally enforceable, like a statutory instrument, for example.
▪ Greater control will be achieved by providing that the power is to be exercised by way of statutory instrument.
▪ Appendix 1 lists all the statutory instruments made under the Act for easy reference.
▪ The Statutory Instruments Act 1946 only applies, not unsurprisingly, to statutory instruments.
▪ Simply implementing the Directive by means of a statutory instrument would result in yet another regime relating solely to consumer contracts.
interpretation
▪ This is an interesting modern example of statutory interpretation, which gives effect to Parliament's intention.
▪ His text, then, is an instance of statutory interpretation rather than substantive and wholesale innovation.
▪ The current trend is to regard many issues of statutory interpretation as questions of law, or mixed law and fact.
▪ To say that this was creative statutory interpretation would be a gross understatement.
▪ That does not mean that I would discard it as an instrument of statutory interpretation even were I empowered to do so.
▪ They also do so by this process of statutory interpretation.
▪ And of those cases, the majority involved matters of statutory interpretation with little or no political impact.
language
▪ The question is primarily one of construction of the statutory language used in section 82.
▪ Such a charge is in strict accord with the statutory language, and illustrates the meaning to be placed on those words.
nuisance
▪ He must therefore satisfy himself on a regular basis that it does not constitute a statutory nuisance.
obligation
▪ He said that the police had a statutory obligation for public safety.
▪ Albert is under a statutory obligation to repair the structure.
▪ It imposes statutory obligations on employers to set down and implement policy to safeguard the health and safety of their employees.
▪ Line managers are responsible for health and safety and have a duty to implement statutory obligations and group and local policies.
▪ In many of the cases arising out of homelessness, local authorities have sought to interpret their statutory obligations narrowly.
▪ The local authority increase in manpower, particularly ancillary and health workers, could largely be explained by such statutory obligations.
▪ There was, however, no statutory obligation upon the Council to produce one.
offence
▪ That is a statutory offence or, more bluntly put, a criminal offence.
▪ It created a statutory offence of riot - 12 or more people using or threatening violence for an unlawful purpose.
power
▪ For example, it does not apply to trustees who have special statutory powers of investment, such as some charity trustees.
▪ For example, a great deal of legislation is made by Ministers under statutory powers delegated by Parliament.
▪ The Law Society ran a compulsory liability insurance scheme for solicitors under statutory powers.
▪ A spokesman told us: The officers who searched the house were using their statutory powers.
▪ It is plain that those principles can not apply where the discretion is not exercised pursuant to a statutory power.
▪ We will give the courts the statutory power to increase sentences for those who offend while on bail.
▪ There are specific statutory powers to admit certain types of documentary evidence particularly relevant to child care cases.
▪ The issue has, to date, arisen in the context of public law cases alleging misuse of statutory powers.
procedure
▪ She then initiated the statutory procedure under section 9 of the Act to have an assessment made of J's educational needs.
▪ There is a statutory procedure laid down for the consultation process.
▪ The court will not sanction the scheme if the requisite statutory procedures have not been complied with.
▪ However, because of the Church's separate statutory procedure, listed building consent is not required for churches in use.
protection
▪ Essentially, this statutory protection gives a business tenant security of tenure.
▪ Legislation should be considered to extend statutory protection to auditors so that they can report reasonable suspicion of fraud to investigatory authorities.
provision
▪ A commitment to statutory provision alone fails those most at risk.
▪ These are expressed with differing degrees of formality in the form of statutory provisions, case law and conventions of the constitution.
▪ If the Woolwich principle comprehends payments made under a mistake of law then such payments are also covered by the statutory provisions.
▪ Thus the effect of the Order was to amend one of the statutory provisions.
▪ The statutory provision was held to prevent the defendant from relying on any form of the volenti defence.
▪ Various arguments have been put forward to suggest that specific statutory provisions have been entrenched.
▪ This would appear to defeat the intention of the statutory provision.
▪ Section 26 repeals a number of existing statutory provisions which allowed summary arrest.
rape
▪ On two separate but very well publicized occasions Errol Flynn was accused of statutory rape.
▪ The minister was charged with statutory rape in June.
redundancy
▪ Furthermore, a statutory redundancy payment will be offset against the basic award.
▪ There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies.
▪ The scheme was subsidised by the taxpayer in the granting to employers of a sizeable rebate on each statutory redundancy payment made.
▪ The Secretary of State maintained that because of section 82 the applicant was not entitled to a statutory redundancy payment.
▪ Thus, Crown servants are not entitled to statutory redundancy payments, but most have the right not to be unfairly dismissed.
▪ The qualifying period for the right to statutory redundancy pay is two years.
regulation
▪ At present, the use of such systems is not covered by any statutory regulations.
▪ But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements, and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation.
▪ We know of no statutory regulations or taxpayer's rights.
▪ Such an offence might range from a minor breach of a statutory regulation to a major crime.
▪ Aims were defined, certain statutory regulations laid down and five officers elected for the first three-year term.
▪ It is clear then, that there are flaws in relying upon solely statutory regulation or self-regulation to regulate insider abuse.
▪ The business of pawnbrokers, which consists in lending money upon pledges of goods, is the subject of special statutory regulation.
▪ The latter is in some cases subject to statutory regulation, in others it is a matter of local discretion.
requirement
▪ There is the concern about how the school can both maintain its own curriculum priorities and meet statutory requirements.
▪ But it is governed in some detail by statutory requirements, and so is undeniably a system of statutory regulation.
▪ One such might be the school development plan, now a statutory requirement.
▪ It is, I think, generally felt that the youth service is already a statutory requirement under various education Acts.
▪ The judge said that Union Discount had not proved that the purpose of an audit was other than to satisfy statutory requirements.
▪ The statutory requirements for the introduction of any new drug are particularly formidable.
▪ There is no statutory requirement to hold a register of such people.
▪ A more thorough review of statutory requirements in line with the Government concern to reduce burdens on industry has been announced.
responsibility
▪ All records were to be available to Cardiff city council to allow it to discharge its statutory responsibilities.
▪ Key partners in the arts investment game, who should have a statutory responsibility for cultural provision.
▪ Since then, the Government has had a statutory responsibility to increase benefits only in line with prices.
▪ The statutory responsibilities to safeguard the welfare of the community and children in particular often involves recourse to the courts.
▪ At present, however, the exact nature of the statutory responsibility is vague and outdated.
▪ Should not the Government enforce the statutory responsibilities of local authorities?
▪ This chapter outlines statutory responsibilities for vulnerable elderly people.
▪ However, should these agreements conflict with governors' statutory responsibilities the latter will take precedence.
right
▪ The legislation ensures that people have a statutory right to pay the community charge in manageable instalments.
▪ Employee advocates argue that the policies are an insidious way for companies to take away statutory rights that Congress granted workers.
▪ Most statutory rights have to be enforced within a strict time limit.
▪ The public have a statutory right to be present during council meetings and committee meetings.
▪ We saw in Chapter 6 that fixed-term contracts offer one, strictly limited, means of contracting out of statutory rights.
▪ The essential services have no statutory right of entry unless there is an emergency.
▪ Remember you have certain statutory rights as a consumer.
▪ Do you lose your statutory rights?
rule
▪ A week's pay is calculated in accordance with a series of statutory rules.
▪ In this section, extracts examine the policy behind the law, the statutory rules and then the cases.
▪ This then is the context within which statutory rules and cases on adverse possession must be seen.
▪ Any statutory rules will of course take precedence over contractual rules.
▪ There are no statutory rules governing the procedure for deciding a prisoner's tariff.
scheme
▪ Their Lordships rejected the claim saying that the statutory scheme showed that leave was to be exparte.
sector
▪ It was made clear that the responsibility for actually managing real services should rest with the statutory sector.
▪ Nor is such variation in any way particular to the local authority element in the statutory sector.
▪ They can provide certain types of services more effectively than the statutory sector.
▪ We have an aging population and a growing number of residential care homes in the private, voluntary and statutory sectors.
service
▪ Many statutory services are not keeping pace with demographic change.
▪ But much volunteer help now flows to statutory services, like hospitals and old people's homes.
▪ Support from statutory services Professional services available to the carer come from various sources and vary a great deal from area to area.
▪ As statutory services continue to implement an equal opportunities policy these matters will need sensitive handling by social services.
▪ I think the statutory services which are the registering bodies also have a role to play in that.
▪ Private care can be flexible and innovative in a way that statutory services often find difficult.
▪ Private care doesn't have to answer to all the pressures that are on the statutory services.
▪ It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion.
tenant
▪ It is said that, not withstanding the order for possession, he was still a statutory tenant.
▪ The rules for succession after the death of a statutory tenant have been changed.
▪ There can now be only one statutory succession after the death of a statutory tenant.
▪ They dealt with cases which did not involve statutory tenants.
▪ That definition makes it clear that a statutory tenant is not the holder of a statutorily protected tenancy.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ statutory requirements for clinical laboratories
▪ Local authorities have a statutory duty to house homeless families.
▪ Officers have a statutory obligation to report any crime committed by a government employee.
▪ The statutory fine for this offence is $250.
▪ When you buy something, you have certain statutory rights as a consumer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A code of practice is not legally enforceable, like a statutory instrument, for example.
▪ Mr. Allen One is tempted to ask why the statutory instrument is needed.
▪ Section 26 repeals a number of existing statutory provisions which allowed summary arrest.
▪ Simply implementing the Directive by means of a statutory instrument would result in yet another regime relating solely to consumer contracts.
▪ So there aren't a great many local statutory reporting requirements to meet.
▪ The House will know that the Government thought long and hard about their decision to retain the statutory training board.
▪ The point is a short one of statutory construction which appears to be free from authority.
▪ There would have been no more than the statutory redundancies.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Statutory
Statutory \Stat"u*to*ry\ (st[a^]t"[-u]*t[-o]*r[y^]; 135), a. Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
statutory
"pertaining to statues, depending on statute for authority, required by statute," 1717, from statute + -ory. Statutory rape attested from 1873; in U.S., "sexual intercourse with a female below the legal age of consent, whether forced or not." Related: Statutorily.
Wiktionary
statutory
a. Of, relating to, enacted or regulated by a statute.
WordNet
statutory
adj. relating to or created by statutes; "statutory matters"; "statutory law"
prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute; "statutory restrictions"; "a statutory age limit"; "statutory crimes"; "statutory rape"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "statutory".
Congressional legislation which is to be made effective through negotiation and inquiry within the international field must often accord to the President a degree of discretion and freedom from statutory restriction which would not be admissible were domestic affairs alone involved.
In destroying government and statutory laws, Anarchism proposes to rescue the self-respect and independence of the individual from all restraint and invasion by authority.
United States is exclusively a case of statutory construction, it is significant from a constitutional point of view in that its reasoning is contrary to that of earlier cases narrowly construing the act of 1831 and asserting broad inherent powers of courts to punish contempts independently of and contrary to Congressional regulation of this power.
Likewise, the committing to a board of county supervisors of authority to determine, without notice or hearing, when repairs to an existing drainage system are necessary cannot be said to deny due process of law to landowners in the district, who, by statutory requirement, are assessed for the cost thereof in proportion to the original assessments.
The antinomianism of Marcion was ultimately based on the strength of his religious feeling, on his personal religion as contrasted with all statutory religion.
The misconception in regard to this has arisen from the fact that under certain regulations paroles are granted before the expiration of the statutory sentence.
The board had a statutory duty to protect society at large from this kind of recklessness, and they found Hurwitz guilty of overprescribing and revoked his license.
Nor is the retroactive application of this statutory requirement to actions pending at the time of its adoption violative of due process as long as no new liability for expenses incurred before enactment is imposed thereby, and the only effect thereof is to stay such proceedings until the security is furnished.
But since the American Consul in Cartagena was the personification of neutrality, was he likely to do anything more than give the statutory assistance to four men claiming to be United States citizens and wishing to return home?
Court sustained unanimously the right of the National Executive to go into the federal courts and secure an injunction against striking railway employees who were interfering with interstate commerce, although it was conceded that there was no statutory basis for such action.
It would have been statutory rape with Kamar, too, but nobody says anything about that.
Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the issue of whether the Florida Supreme Court acted unconstitutionally when it ordered Harris to include manual recounts submitted after the statutory deadline.
In 1976 there was no statutory protocol governing the length of time for which you could lock people up while still trying to finalise a case against them, but there were rules of thumb consistent with the ancient laws of habeas corpus.
In some cases, we suspected they were trying to shortcut constitutional or statutory limits, and their requests were denied.
All my nearest and dearest know who Barmy Brian is, just as they know the names of every one of my heartsink patients, and I have told David that if either of my children attach an adjective, any adjective, to his first name in his presence, then he or she will not be eating en famille for a statutory minimum two years, including Christmas Day and birthdays.