Administrative Law

• Administrative Law

  Concerns the administration and implementation of legislation by the executive (the Crown) and by statutory delegates.

  • Consists of those Rules of Law which govern and constrain the exercise of power and privileges of the executive and the conduct of statutory bodies (boards, commissions, and tribunals).
  • It is the aim of the administrative law to govern relations between citizens and the state when the state chooses to delegate part of its power to the Crown or statutory bodies.
• Why is administrative law important to the Rule of Law?

  This because our lives are subject to the regulation by the government: regulation of health and safety, human rights, pay equity, and employment, pensions and insures, financial institutions, etc.
• Label the Statutory Delegation

  A) The Crown

  B) Statutory Delegates

  C) State Agent

  D) Statutory Box

  E) Statutory Instrument

  F) Legislature

  
• Explain how this diagram works.

  1. The crown and statutory delegates are given authority to make and enact laws;
  2. state agents enforce those laws;
  3. statutory box defines the a particular amount of range of influence for the crown and statutory delegates (ambit of law);
  4. statutory instruments, a set of rules created by the government, enact the laws into practise;
  5. when the law is enacted, if an agent acts outside of its authority, the crown or statutory delegates has to remedy the situation;
  6. if state agency is found to exceed its authority, it is declared to be "ultra vires."