Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia

Andrew Edgar

University of Sydney

Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia

Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards and Executive Aggrandisement

Andrew Edgar

This book shines a spotlight on the way in which parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support for democratic legitimacy for regulations in the UK and Australia.

This book has two aims. The first is to explain the systems of parliamentary scrutiny in the UK and Australia and their historical development. The second aim is to examine recent developments in regulation-making that avoid or minimise this safeguard.

The book contributes to public law in the UK and Australia by analysing recent developments that involve executive over-reach, by reference to the historical development of parliamentary checks on regulation-making.

Andrew Edgar is Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, Australia.