Processes of Legislation - Jamb Government Past Questions and Answers

Question 1:

• JAMB 1978

Delegated legislation is legislation

A. Which is not submitted to parliament
B. Made by judicial tribunals
C. Made by a minister acting an Act of Parliament
D. Made by local government
E. Made by parastatals

Question 2:

• JAMB 1979

The major role of national legislature is to

A. Scrutinize and criticize the executive branch
B. Step into political vacum created by weak executives
C. Expose and supervise the government
D. Make laws for the general welfare of citizens
E. Find ways and means to get money for governments

Question 3:

• JAMB 1979

The main function of the legislature is

A. To implement law
B. To enforce law
C. To make law
D. To interpret law
E. To unllify law

Question 4:

• JAMB 1979

Another name for delegated legislation is

A. Administrative legislation
B. Executive legislation
C. Subordinate legislation
D. All of the above
E. None of the above

Question 5:

• JAMB 1980

Delegated legislation

A. Means sharing responibility between central and local goverment on a fifty fifty basis
B. Decentralizes responsibility for law making subject to agreed controls from the centre
C. Has advantages and disadvantages
D. Once permitted is almost impossible to control
E. Decentralizes problems without providing suitable solutions