Reconciling Regulation or Confronting Inconsistency? Conflict Between National and Provincial Legislation
Reconciling Regulation or Confronting Inconsistency? Conflict Between National and Provincial Legislation
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协调监管还是面对不一致？
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2006
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V. Bronstein
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V. Bronstein
摘要在1996年《南非共和国宪法》附表4所列领域，确定省级立法与国家立法之间是否存在冲突的适当检验标准是什么？尽管直接冲突标准似乎与《宪法》第150条产生了共鸣，因为它最大限度地减少了立法冲突，但它对立法的态度是粗略的一维的，它导致了未经考虑的过度管制。在其他法律的制度中，优先购买权解决了其中一些问题，但不适合南非的宪法设计。还有别的办法法律的解释者应将立法沉默视为在适当情况下的故意行为，其中包括在“限制发生变化”时对发现冲突持开放态度。这种做法符合《宪法》对立法冲突的设计，《宪法》第146条是其核心。它还保护监管空间，防止随意过度监管。法院在处理冲突方面具有双重作用。他们需要继续支持和尊重各省。另一方面，必须明确保护共和国的民族团结和不可分割性。作为合作治理原则的一部分，在没有与国家立法相冲突的情况下，法院有剩余权力宣布保护主义的省级立法无效。
Abstract What is an appropriate test for determining whether there is conflict between provincial and national legislation in the areas listed in Schedule 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996? Although the direct conflict test seems to resonate with s 150 of the Constitution in that it minimises legislative conflict, it is crudely onedimensional in its attitude to legislation and it conduces to unconsidered overregulation. Pre-emption, which counters some of these problems in other legal systems, is ill-suited to the South African constitutional design. There is another way. Legal interpreters should see legislative silence as deliberate in appropriate circumstances which includes being open to finding conflict when ‘limits are shifted’. This approach coheres with the Constitution’s design for legislative conflict which has s 146 of the Constitution at its centre. It also protects regulatory space and prevents random overregulation. The courts have a dual role in relation to conflict. They need to continue to support and be respectful of the provinces. On the other hand national unity and indivisibility of the Republic need to be unequivocally protected. As part of the principle of co-operative governance, courts have residual power to invalidate protectionist provincial legislation in the absence of conflicting national legislation.