Word.ws English Dictionary

statutory instruments

statutory instruments is the plural of statutory instrument.

Meaning of statutory instrument

Noun

statutory instrument (plural statutory instruments)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK) In some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an act of parliament.

Questions about statutory instruments

What is statutory instruments the plural of?
Statutory instruments is the plural of statutory instrument.

Words near statutory instruments in the dictionary

  1. statutory heir
  2. statutory heirs
  3. statutory holiday
  4. statutory holidays
  5. statutory instrument
  6. statutory instruments
  7. statutory law
  8. statutory laws
  9. statutory rape
  10. statutory rapes
  11. statuvolism

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: statutory instruments (page history and authors); statutory instrument (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “statutory instruments.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/statutory_instruments. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.