User talk:Berchemboy
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[edit] Overdue reply
Hi Berchemboy. On my talk page you had asked why I changed 'legislative' to 'administrative', and you stated, The districts vote on local sports, culture, urbanisation and other issues. It is a "legislative" body, not "administrative". I may have forgotten to answer that, sorry for not responding earlier. Legislation means law-making by parliament, in Belgium requiring the King's signature. At best, an Antverpian district council may make a politiereglement, a set of local rules, or reglementations; but not laws. The law at higher level, mainly the Gemeentewet, or nowadays the Gemeentedecreet allows municipalities to set out and by police enforce these rules for a limited number of topics; from the proper time to put out the garbage, to (some) local building reglementations, or forbidding to swim at a particular place in a river; and a judge (I assume normally a politierechter) may convict one to a fine for breaking rules. But the council does remain what I assume should in English be called an administrative body; it is definitely not a legislative body. Compare also the concept of administrative subdivisions. In Dutch-language, we say that a schepene belongs to the uitvoerende macht though a parliament to the wetgevende macht, I rather assume this may also be the case for regional parliaments though their 'laws' are named 'decrees'; logically this should then also apply to a city council. But the distinction between 'administrative' and 'legislative' appears to be rather different; see also legislature. Kind regards. — SomeHuman 3 Feb 2007 03:00-14:31 (UTC)
