Challenging Delegated Legislation

This monograph considers delegated legislation, ie secondary legislation made under the authority of an 'enabling' Parliamentary Act. After examining the system's evolution and history, and the context in which such legislation has become an essential feature of modern government and the legal system, the work discusses the way that delegated legislation is published, made, and takes legal effect, commenting on matters like the system's regulation by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946. It considers, as a major theme, the scope for legal challenge in the legislature, and in the courts - either by way of direct challenge in judicial review proceedings, or in collateral proceedings.