Enabling here is an adjective for laws. An enabling law, or enabling act, is a law that does not do the whole job itself. It opens the door: it says that a person, a government office, or a group may now do something they could not do before, or it gives them special legal powers to make further rules. The parliament passes the enabling law; the small print often comes later. This is a formal, legal word. You will meet it in news about governments, and in history — some famous Enabling Acts gave a leader very wide powers, and people still argue about that. The word itself is not good or bad; it only means the law makes something possible on paper. You will also see enabling as the everyday -ing form of enable (“She is enabling the students to speak”). That is the same family of meaning, just not the legal label. When it sits in front of law, act, or statute, you are in the legal sense.