A regulation fulfills the function of facilitating the application of the law, detailing its execution and operating as an ideal instrument to carry out its content effectively. Its main objective is to establish a logical and coherent order, so that the regulated activity unfolds according to a specific and optimized order.
The regulations detail the necessary procedure to normalize the execution of certain activities, within the framework of the legislation of the country in which these actions are carried out.
Regulations are legal norms of a lower rank than the law. It is an ordered collection of rules or legal precepts, dictated by the legislative body of each nation.
For the regulation to have legal validity, it must be published in the official gazette of each country. Likewise, regulations tend to be valid indefinitely, until a modification takes place by rules of greater or equal rank.
Consequently, regulations are part of the legal system, since they are considered one of the sources of law, and their regulatory power is usually based on the Magna Carta of each country.
A regulation is usually closely linked to a law or a set of laws. Its validity as a General Legal Norm is given by the Legislative Power of each nation.
On the other hand, its application, validation and execution must be consistent with the related official documents.
As it is a set of rules, they will only have validity and a sense of right, as long as they are derived from a legal norm regulated within the administrative heart of the country.
Likewise, as they are subject to the legal framework imposed by the laws, the regulations cannot override the precepts of the law, nor infringe rules of a higher rank.
The regulation attests to the exercise of the legislative function, and its parliamentary authority is widely recognized by local doctrine and jurisprudence.
Regulations usually operate as tools for the detailed execution of laws, to fully comply with their content, guaranteeing a state of equity and sovereignty.
Therefore, the regulations must comply with the real conditions and needs of the population, and detail the regulations based on these guidelines.
From a more everyday point of view, the development and enforcement of regulations can be applied to everyday spheres of life, such as labor contracts or the internal moral and ethical regulations of private institutions.
In that sense, the repercussions of incurring in the breach of the regulations are considerably smaller.
However, beyond the application of civil or criminal sanctions, the responsibility of each individual lies in fully complying with the guidelines expressed in the regulations, and executing the detailed activities efficiently and in accordance with the established regulations.
References
- Definition of Regulation (2009). Dictionary Definition ABC. San Salvador, El Salvador. Recovered from: definicionabc.com
- Regulation (2014). Legal Encyclopedia. Madrid Spain. Recovered from: encyclopedia-juridica.biz14.com
- Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia (2017). Regulation. Recovered from: es.wikipedia.org.