Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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- Simple: an act of onle legislative chamber, requires no Quasi-judicial tribunals (administrative agencies
further action by the other performing judicial functions) may also issue their own
- Concurrent: an act of one chamber concurred in by the rules of procedure
other o Legislative rules
- Joint: an act of both legislative chambers, voting Rules of procedure promulgated by any legislative body to
separately govern the mode and manner of conducting the business
Parts of the body and the intended for the orderly and proper
- Title: a short statement of the subject matter of the disposition of the matters before it
statute Parliamentary law
- Preamble: explains why the statute was enacted; usually NOT to be considered statutes proper nor have they the
preceded by “whereas” force of statutes outside the assembly hall that adopts
- Enacting clause: identifies the legislative body which them
enacted the statute and which declares the assumption
of responsibility by said body for its enactment
- Body: definition of terms, subject matter, administrative
provisions, processes by which the law is put into
operation, penalties for the violation
- Temporary provisions and schedules: supply rules that
are to govern during the period before the law comes
into effect
- Saving clauses, provisos, exceptions: exempt certain
persons or things from the operation of the statute
- Repealing clause: designates prior statutes rendered
inoperative
- Separability: preserves the rest of the statute if one or
more of its section be declared unconstitutional
- Clause of effectivity: time when the act shall commence
to have the force and operation of law
o Municipal charters
Constitute laws under which an incorporated city or town
or other municipal corporation exercises its privileges,
performs its duties, and discharges its obligations,
including all matters in which it has a direct interest and a
right to regulate and control
Of two main classes: those created by statute (legislative
charters: special or general) and those created and
adopted by the voters of a city or town by constitutional
authorization
o Municipal legislation
Ordinances: prescribes a general, uniform and permanent
rule of conduct, binding not only upon inhabitants but also
on strangers coming within its territorial limits – legislate
- Title, enacting clause, body, repealing clause, effectivity
clause
Resolutions: acts of the municipal council that deal with
matters of special and temporary character; ordinarily
approved with less formality – ministerial capacity
o Administrative rules and orders
Norms of conduct promulgated by executive or
administrative authority to govern the relations among
themselves or between such authorities and private
individuals
Regulations issued by administrative offices and agencies
as well as those orders and proclamations promulgated by
national and local electives
Substantive: relates to organization and competence of
administrative authorities
Procedural: indicates to the individual remedies for the
violation of rights
o Court rules
Norms of conduct governing practice, pleading and
procedure before judicial tribunals
Usually promulgated by courts themselves, although in
some jurisdictions legislatures may have concurrent power
to make them
Forms: (a) set of regulations (b) code of procedure
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