Reserved powers
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Reserved powers can refer to several powers of a central authority:
- Reserved powers, or Reserved matters, are those subjects still dealt with by the United Kingdom Parliament, and not devolved to the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales or the Northern Ireland Assembly
- Reserved powers, under the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, are powers that the United States Constitution does not give to the federal government, or forbid to the states, are reserved to the people or the states.
- reserved powers, powers that the British Governor of Bermuda has over External Affairs, Internal Security and the Police, see Politics of Bermuda
- Reserved powers, also called Reserved State powers, were a historical doctrine used in the interpretation of the federal Constitution of Australia. It applies a restrictive approach to the interpretation of the specific powers of the Federal Parliament in order to preserve the residual powers of the States