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    Two Tests of Valid Delegation

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    The document discusses two tests for determining valid delegation of legislative power: the completeness test and sufficient standard test. Both tests aim to prevent total transfer of legislative authority and require laws to be complete or have adequate guidelines when reaching the delegate.

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    The document discusses two tests for determining valid delegation of legislative power: the completeness test and sufficient standard test. Both tests aim to prevent total transfer of legislative authority and require laws to be complete or have adequate guidelines when reaching the delegate.

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    Two Tests of Valid Delegation

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    The document discusses two tests for determining valid delegation of legislative power: the completeness test and sufficient standard test. Both tests aim to prevent total transfer of legislative authority and require laws to be complete or have adequate guidelines when reaching the delegate.

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    There are two accepted tests to determine whether or not there is a valid

    delegation of legislative power, viz: the completeness test and the sufficient
    standard test.

    Under the first test, the law must be complete in all its terms and conditions when
    it leaves the legislative such that when it reaches the delegate the only thing he
    will have to do is to enforce it.

    Under the sufficient standard test, there must be adequate guidelines or


    limitations in the law to map out the boundaries of the delegate's authority and
    prevent the delegation from running riot.

    Both tests are intended to prevent a total transference of legislative authority to


    the delegate, who is not allowed to step into the shoes of the legislature and
    exercise a power essentially legislative.

    The validity of delegating legislative power is now a quiet area in our


    constitutional landscape. As sagely observed, delegation of legislative power has
    become an inevitability in light of the increasing complexity of the task of
    government. Thus, courts bend as far back as possible to sustain the
    constitutionality of laws which are assailed as unduly delegating legislative
    powers. Citing Hirabayashi v. United States [23] as authority, Mr. Justice Isagani
    A. Cruz states "that even if the law does not expressly pinpoint the standard, the
    courts will bend over backward to locate the same elsewhere in order to spare the
    statute, if it can, from constitutional infirmity."

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