What is the difference between legislation and subsidiary legislation?

Answer 1

Legislation are laws made by legislature which are Parliament and state legislative assembly whereas subsidiary legislation are laws made by person or bodies under power conferred on them by Acts of the Parliament. Laws made in subsidiary legislation are usually called rules and regulations, order and notification.

Answer 2

Legislation refers to laws passed by a legislative body, such as a parliament or congress, that have the highest legal status in a country. Subsidiary legislation, on the other hand, refers to rules and regulations made under the authority of primary legislation to provide further details or clarification on how the law is to be implemented. Subsidiary legislation is subordinate to primary legislation and is often issued by government agencies or administrative bodies.

Answer 3

Legislation

(or "statutory law") is law which has been promulgated (or "enacted") by a legislature or other governing body, or the process of making it. (Another source of law is judge-made law or case law.) Before an item of legislation becomes law it may be known as a bill, and may be broadly referred to as "legislation" while it remains under consideration to distinguish it from other business. Legislation can have many purposes: to regulate, to authorize, to proscribe, to provide (funds), to sanction, to grant, to declare or to restrict

Subordinate Legislation1. SALMOND defines: "subordinate legislation is that which proceeds from any authority other than the sovereign power, and is therefore dependent for its continued existence and validity on some superior or supreme authority".

2. Subordinate legislation is of several kinds. All other forms of legislative activity recognized by the law are subordinate legislation.

3. It can be repealed, annulled or controlled by parliament.