Delegated legislation ????

Question

provide the main forms of delegated legislation highlighting the organisations/ persons responsible for their creation.

Answer 1

Try : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegated_l...

Answer 2

Lacking any specifics, I will assume you are referring to the US.

This concept relates to the idea that Congress is almost the sole source of power for the federal government.  It is from Article 1 section 8, that the feds get the power to regulate waterways, money, interstate commerce, the army, etc.  Congress often delegates some of this power to the Executive agency's (ex. where to place a stop sign on a military base).  However, Congress may not delegate to much power.  Typically, anything that goes to a policy choice, is something that congress itself must do.  A federal agency is typically not allowed to create new crimes. (ex. illegal to run a stop sign is from Congress, the placement, color, and ordering of stop sign may all come from executive agencies.)

The person most responsible for the present form of delegated rule-making authority is Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  After first being elected, FDR got vast grants of power from Congress during the famous One Hundred Days.  These grants of power were unprecedented, but felt to be appropriate due to the worsening Great Depression.  The fact that congress delegated too much power would become the basis of several later tangles with the Supreme Court.