Practice question · Multiple choice
A municipal ordinance, a national statute and an EU regulation all address the same waste-disposal question and conflict. Which governs, and on what principle?
Hints
- Ask whether the conflict is between rules of the same rank or different ranks.
- 'Later law wins' is a rule for one specific situation. Which?
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C. The EU regulation, which sits above national and local rules
Why
Rank decides first and date only breaks ties between equals, so lex posterior never lets a local rule beat a superior norm. A legal system is a pyramid rather than a heap precisely so that conflicts have a mechanical answer instead of a political one.
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