purview

The extent or range of activity, function, power, or competence; scope. synonym: range.

Range of vision.

Range of understanding or experience.

The body or main part of a statute, as distinguished from its preamble.

The general scope and coverage of a statute.

A condition, provision, or disposition; in law, that part of a statute which begins with the words “Be it enacted,” as distinguished from the preamble, and hence the whole body of provisions.

Field, scope, sphere, or limits of anything, as of a law, authority, etc.: as, the purview of science; facts that come under the purview of consciousness.