10 DEFINITION OF SOCIAL LEGISLATION

          10 DEFINITIONS OF SOCIAL LEGISLATION

Dr. R.N. Saxena defines social legislation as ‘any act passed by the legislature or a decree issued by the government for the removal of certain social evils or for the improvement of social conditions or with the aim of bringing about social reform

According to Fairchild, social legislation means laws designed to improve and protect the economic and social position of those groups in society which because of age, sex, race, physical or mental defect or lack of economic power cannot achieve health and decent living standards for themselves

According to Prof. Gangrade, social legislation involves an active process of remedy by preventing or changing the wrong course of society or by selecting among the courses that are proved to be right.

According to Dictionary of American History, social legislation are the laws that seek to promote the common good, generally by protecting and assisting the weaker members of society, are considered to be social legislation. Such legislation includes laws assisting the unemployed, the infirm, the disabled, and the elderly.

According to Gray, legislation is the formal utterances of the legislative organs of the society.

According to Salmond, legislation is that source of law which consists in the declaration of legal rules by a competent authority.

According to Merriam Webster's Learner's Dictionary, social legislation is the exercise of the power and function of making rules that have the force of authority by virtue of their promulgation by an official organ of the state

According to Oliver Wendell, “Legislation of today is to meet the social needs of yesterday.”

According to Hogau and Inni, social legislation is to provide for the orderly regulation of social relationship for the welfare and security of all individuals in the social unit.

According to The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979), social legislation in capitalist countries, the aggregate of legal norms regulating the conditions of hired workers and measures to assist persons without means of support.

CONCLUSION

Legislation is the law, rules or order which has been enacted by a legislature or other governing body or the process of making it. 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 outlaw, to provide (funds), to sanction, to grant, to declare or to restrict. It may be contrasted with a non-legislative act which is adopted by an executive or administrative body under the authority of a legislative act or for implementing a legislative act.