Opting out is a political expression that was formulated in Canada to describe the intention of a province to remove itself from a program administered by the federal government, or to exempt itself from a constitutional amendment that would transfer its legislative powers to Parliament. Up until the 1960s, a province that did not participate in a...
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Certain European Union countries have what are known as ‘opt-outs’, which are a means of ensuring that when a given country does not wish to join the others in a particular field of EU policy, it can opt out, thus avoiding an overall stalemate.
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temporarily replacing the programme carried by some transmitters of a broadcast transmitter network, by another programme such as a local programme
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In UK education, schools that choose to be funded directly from the Department for Education and Skills are said to be opting out of local-authority control. The Education Reform Act 1988 gave this option to all secondary schools and the larger primary schools, and in 1990 it was extended to all primary schools. However, by 1995 only 1,040 of 2...
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