The social salience theory may thus seem reminiscent of the "plain meaning" school of statutory interpretation, but there are important differences.
It clearly allows for the possibility of legislative fallibility; legislators may create statutory rules whose applications they-individually or collectively- understand badly or not at all.
The views of statutory and voluntary agencies working in this field were also sought.
Generally in this area, the performance of the statutory agencies is unsatisfactory.
The statutory notification system offers the potential advantages of being exhaustive and of allowing historical trends to be evaluated.
Various adjustments would need to be made to extend the analysis to the role of precedent in statutory interpretation.
The details of healthcare provision are delegated to the sickness funds and statutory healthcare physicians.
Federal regulation thus proceeded without the leverage of statutory law, the stronger of these two regulatory traditions.
