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I think it happens in France sometimes, and it’s one of the roles of the Constitutional Council to strike unrelated measures from laws.
by joconde 5y ago
I think it happens in France sometimes, and it’s one of the roles of the Constitutional Council to strike unrelated measures from laws.
- bonzini 5y agoSame in Italy, though here it's a parliamentary democracy so it's the president of the republic that does this kind of oversight.
- bambax 5y agoYes, it's called "cavalier législatif" ("law rider"?) and it's kind of forbidden by the 45th article of the current constitution, which states that an amendment is examined if it has a "link, even indirectly, with the piece of legislation being voted". That doesn't prevent it from happening all the time, of course. The Conseil Constitutionnel sometimes strikes the "riders" if the law being voted is referred to the Council -- but referral isn't mandatory. https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/publications/titre-vii/le-controle-des-cavaliers-legislatifs-entre-continuite-et-innovations https://www.conseil-constitutionnel.fr/publications/titre-vi... [in French]
- flipbrad 5y agoIn the UK, the principle is that a law's "Long Title" must cover everything in that law - which limits the ability to shoehorn unrelated amendments in during the draft law's passage through Parliament. Long titles sometimes are made vague, deliberately, to provide for some flexibility here. https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/long-title-of-a-bill/?id=32625 https://www.parliament.uk/site-information/glossary/long-tit...