disapply

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ apply

Verb

disapply (third-person singular simple present disapplies, present participle disapplying, simple past and past participle disapplied)

1. (transitive, law) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied
   • 2004 October 19, House of Lords Hansard for 19 Oct 2004‎^[1], pt 5:

     If we were to accept Amendment No. 144D, the effect of that would be to disapply the definition from properties that are not yet on the market.

   • 2004 February 12, Opinion of Advocate General Ruiz-Jarabo, Court of Justice of the European Communities, in Case C-443/02, point 54:

     Article 4 does not require Italy to disapply its domestic legislation governing the sale of insect repellent products on the ground that, in another Member State, Germany in this instance, their marketing is not subject to any authorisation or registration.

   • 2023 November 19, Rajeev Syal, “Sunak could block Human Rights Act to force through Rwanda asylum plan”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     The hard-right New Conservatives grouping demanded that Sunak’s new legislation “must disapply the Human Rights Act”, while the former home secretary Suella Braverman, who was sacked by Sunak last week, said the new bill must exclude all avenues of legal challenge.

Related terms

• unapply