regulation

n.

1. The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.
2. A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.
3. A governmental order having the force of law. Also called executive order.
4. Embryology. The capacity of an embryo to continue normal development following injury to or alteration of a structure.
5. Sports. The standard playing period for a timed game, prior to overtime or a shootout.

The Federal Reserve Board regulation that governs customer cash accounts and the amount of credit that brokerage firms and dealers may extend to customers for the purchase of securities.

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According to Regulation T, you may borrow up to 50% of the purchase price of securities that can be purchased on margin. This is known as the initial margin.

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Rules used to carry out a law; act of administering a law. Many government agencies prepare regulations to administer a law.

Federal Reserve regulation governing credit extensions by securities brokers and dealers, including all members of national securities exchanges. Broker-dealers may not extend credit to their customers unless such loans are secured by margin securities-securities listed and traded on a national securities exchange, mutual funds, over-the-counter stock designated by the SEC as eligible for trading in the national market system. Generally, a broker-dealer may not extend credit on margin securities in excess of the percentage of current market value permitted by the board.

noun

1. A principle governing affairs within or among political units: canon, decree, edict, institute, law, ordinance, precept, prescription, rule. See law.
2. A code or set of codes governing action or procedure, for example: dictate, prescript, rubric, rule. See order/disorder.

n

Definition: managing, organizing
Antonyms: deregulation, disorganization, mismanagement

n

Definition: rule, requirement
Antonyms: lawlessness

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In its specialized political sense, the control of privately owned monopoly by government rules. It dawned in Britain with the Regulation of Railways Act 1844. Because railways were a natural monopoly—it is always cheaper for an established network to serve a new client than it would be for a rival network to start—Parliament tried (unsuccessfully) to regulate prices and (more successfully) to regulate safety. Regulation was exported to the United States during the progressive era from 1880 to 1920, and re-exported to the United Kingdom after privatization of nationalized industries began in 1979. The theory of regulation has lagged behind the practice, so that the aim of regulation has sometimes been unclear. Some writers accuse industries of ‘capturing’ their regulators: that is, of bargaining with them for a pattern of regulation which the industry and the regulator can live with, but which fails to protect the public as the legislation intended.

‘Regulation’ is also used more broadly to cover any publicly imposed rules governing a firm or industry, especially safety and environmental rules.

Any rule prescribing permitted or forbidden conduct, whether established by legislation or the action of an administrative agency; also see building code.

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This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.

A rule of order having the force of law, prescribed by a superior or competent authority, relating to the actions of those under the authority's control.

Regulations are issued by various federal government departments and agencies to carry out the intent of legislation enacted by Congress. Administrative agencies, often called "the bureaucracy," perform a number of different government functions, including rule making. The rules issued by these agencies are called regulations and are designed to guide the activity of those regulated by the agency and also the activity of the agency's employees. Regulations also function to ensure uniform application of the law.

Administrative agencies began as part of the executive branch of government and were designed to carry out the law and the president's policies. Congress, however, retains primary control over the organization of the bureaucracy, including the power to create and eliminate agencies and confirm presidential nominations for staffing the agencies. Congress has also created administrative agencies that exist outside of the executive branch and are independent of presidential control. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal plan he implemented created many new administrative agencies. Over the years administrative agencies have become more powerful participants in the overall federal government structure as Congress and the president have delegated more legislative and executive duties to them. Administrative agencies have also become responsible for many judicial functions.

The judicial and legislative functions of administrative agencies are not exactly like those of the courts or the legislature, but they are similar. Because regulations are not the work of the legislature, they do not have the effect of law in theory; but in practice, regulations can have an important effect in determining the outcome of cases involving regulatory activity. Much of the legislative power vested in administrative agencies comes from the fact that Congress can only go so far in enacting legislation or establishing guidelines for the agencies to follow. Language that is intrinsically vague and cannot speak for every factual situation to which it is applied, as well as political factors, dictate that the agencies have much to interpret and decide in enforcing legislation. For example, securities laws prohibit insiders from profiting against the public interest, but it is left to the applicable administrative agency, the Securities and Exchange Commission, to define "public interest." The Food and Drug Administration, another administrative agency, must keep unsafe food and ineffective drug products off the market, but further administrative refinement and interpretation is necessary for the agency to determine what products are "unsafe" or "ineffective." The Federal Communications Commission must interpret laws regulating broadcasting; the Treasury Department issues regulations interpreting the Internal Revenue Code; and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System issues regulations governing the actions of Federal Reserve banks. The many other administrative agencies and departments make regulations to provide clarity and guidance in their respective areas of the law.

Administrative agencies carry out legislation in several ways, including enacting regulations to carry out what the agency believes is the legislative intent. Agencies generally formulate proposed regulations and then open up rule-making proceedings in which interested parties can testify and comment on them. The agency then issues a rule or policy that binds the agency in future cases just as statutory law does.

The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946, 5 U.S.C.A. § 551 et seq., with its subsequent amendments, was designed to make administrative agencies accountable for their rule making and other government functions. It imposed a number of procedural requirements designed to make procedures among agencies more uniform. In administrative rule-making proceedings formal hearings must be held, interested parties must be given the opportunity to comment on proposed rules, and the adopted formal rules must be published in the Federal Register. After being published in the Federal Register, the regulations are subsequently arranged by subject in the Code of Federal Regulations. The Administrative Procedure Act has been criticized, however, because it contains a number of exemptions that allow the agencies discretion in whether or not they strictly adhere to the guidelines established in the act. Organizations such as the American Bar Association are working toward eliminating such discretion in administrative agencies.

See: Administrative Agency; Administrative Law and Procedure; Code of Federal Regulations; Federal Register; Public Administrative Bodies; Quasi-Legislative.

Laws through which governments can control privately owned businesses.

1. the act of adjusting or state of being adjusted to a certain standard.
2. in biology, the adaptation of form or behavior of an organism to changed conditions.
3. the power of a pregastrula stage to form a whole embryo from a part.
4. the biochemical mechanisms that control the expression of genes.
5. in law the lesser rules promulgated under the authority of an Act of Parliament, and which can be altered by consultation short of presenting a bill to the Parliament.

• feedback r. — a mechanism for regulating metabolic processes involving the active and regulatory sites of allosteric enzyme proteins.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - regulering, regel, reglement

Nederlands (Dutch)
regeling, regulering, voorschrift, gebruikelijk, voorgeschreven

Français (French)
n. - consigne, règlement, réglementation, norme, disposition réglementaire

Deutsch (German)
n. - Regelung, Vorschrift, Regulierung

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ρύθμιση, διευθέτηση, τακτοποίηση, συστηματοποίηση, ρεγουλάρισμα, κανονισμός, διάταξη, (πληθ.) κανονισμός

Italiano (Italian)
disposizioni, ordinanza, regolazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - regulamento (m), norma (f), preceito (m)

Русский (Russian)
правило, положение, регулирование, стабилизация

Español (Spanish)
n. - reglamentos, norma, regla, regulación, control, reglamentación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - reglerande, föreskrift

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
规章, 条例, 规则, 规定, 管理

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 規章, 條例, 規則, 規定, 管理

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 규칙, 법규, 조정

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 規則, 規制, 統制, 調節

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أنظمه, تنظيم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תקנה, כלל, ויסות, חוק, תיקון, הסדרה, תקנון, תקנוני, רשמי‬

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