The Council on Legislation ( sv, Lagrådet) is a Swedish government agency composed of current and former justices of the Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court. Its function is to pronounce on the legal validity of legislative proposals at the request of the

government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is ...

or a Riksdag

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. The council's pronouncements are not binding, but are usually adhered to. The government is not obligated to allow the council to review every bill (), but it has to provide a rationale if it does not allow the council do so. Using legal terminology, the Legislative Council carries out ''judicial preview'' or alternatively ''abstract legal review''.

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* {{authority control Government agencies of Sweden Law of Sweden