legislate

Object

• morality: They're no longer in a position to legislate the morality of the world - just their own followers.
• law: The task here being to legislate laws in order to manage people's interests.

Preposition: on

• matter: That is why we have decided to legislate on the matter.

Preposition: against

• discrimination: The UK is required to legislate against age discrimination by December 2006.

Modifying Another Word

• accordingly: If this cannot be done because of the balance between devolved and reserved powers the Executive should lobby the UK Government to legislate accordingly.
• specifically: Legislate specifically to apply the provisions of TUPE to " service provision changes " .
• so: We will consult on these proposals and then legislate so that we complete the work of Lords reform begun in 1997.
• already: In Europe several countries have already legislated to enable job rotation to be included in their national labor market policies.
• then: It then legislates to, er, deal with streets filled with drunks.

Used with why or when

• where: In the main, government looks to avoid legislating where possible, preferring to give citizens freedom of choice.

Infinitive complement

• prevent: It is almost impossible to legislate to prevent such incidents.
• ban: Just under a year ago the Scottish Parliament legislated to ban smoking in public places.
• ensure: For banking, having accepted the main Cruickshank recommendations, we will legislate to ensure the UK payments system is open to new competition.
• introduce: Was it meant to say ` we will legislate to introduce them ' ?
• protect: Adverse media coverage of mistakes or malpractice in private care has added to the pressure on the government to legislate to protect patients.
• implement: First we have brought forward plans to legislate to implement our long-standing promise for freedom of information legislation.

Preposition: in

• relation: Such matters remain reserved to the UK Parliament which retains the sole right to legislate in relation to them.
• area: The UK Parliament continues to legislate in reserved areas in Scotland.
• field: Member states are not even permitted to legislate in fields covered by such regulations.
• matter: Although the university must be allowed to legislate in all matters of knowledge, it is subordinate in power to the state.