enabling act in English
noun
1
a statute empowering a person or body to take certain action, especially to make regulations, rules, or orders.
The original enabling act required leases to conduct commerce but none of these early entrepreneurs possessed such leases.
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1. The final tally is 38 to 13 in favour of the Enabling Act.
2. The 1866 enabling act for the state was subject to a pocket veto by President Andrew Johnson.