S: (n) enabling legislation (legislation that gives appropriate officials the authority to implement or enforce the law)
S: (n) occupational safety and health act, federal job safety law (a law passed by the United States Congress that created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to prevent employees from being injured or contracting diseases in the course of their employment)
S: (n) law, jurisprudence (the collection of rules imposed by authority) "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"