Disapply

Quick meaning: Disapply is a verb meaning (transitive, law) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.

Meaning

(transitive, law) To decline to apply a rule or law that previously applied.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• disapplies
• disapplying
• disapplied

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deapply, unapply, waive, derogate, outlaw, disappropriate.

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