Single term that describes both "permissions" and "restrictions"

I'm looking for a single word or term that describes "the degree of being allowed", if you will, both in the positive sense (permission) and the negative sense (restricition).

As a technical example, a user could be allowed to edit a file, but restricted from creating new files (explicitly restricted, as opposed to just not having the permission).

A non-technical example would be an employee who is allowed to sign contracts on behalf of the company, but is explicitly forbidden from talking to the press on company matters (because that didn't work out well the last time).

In each case, the word I'm looking for would encompass both. For example if X is my word, the folder in the employee's file that contains the list of things they may or may not do could be titled "Steve's Xs".

The best word I can come up with is "access" or "access level", but that's not quite what I want because it's constraining the use to only a subset of imaginable permissions/restrictions (e.g. it would work for the first example, but not really for the second one).

On the other end of the spectrum, the word "options" came to my mind, but that's 1) really too broad, and 2) has the connotation of choice, which isn't what I want.

Scope, as in scope of responsibility, is used to delineate the extent and limit of a person's responsibility or assignment.

scope Syllabification: scope Pronunciation: /skōp/ NOUN

1. The extent of the area or subject matter that something deals with or to which it is relevant: we widened the scope of our investigation such questions go well beyond the scope of this book.
2. The opportunity or possibility to do or deal with something: the scope for major change is always limited by political realities

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/scope

What the employee and user have is "limited clearance."

The terms "limited permission" or "restricted access" are other options.

Overall, the word "clearance" may suffice.

Try the word "purview."

It means the range or limit of authority, competence, responsibility, concern, or intention.

A technical word commonly used for both of those (in a technical scope) is the word privilege. You can talk about a privilege being both explicitly granted (to edit a particular file) or explicitly denied (being able to create new files, in a folder or globally), and any technical person would probably know what you meant.

Admittedly, that's not perfect either, as it really does have a strong association with "being done on a computing device". I could say someone has or has been explicitly denied the priv to annotate a (digital) document, or to view a particular computer, but it'd be super weird to say someone has or has been explicitly denied the priv to mark up a (paper) document, or to walk into a particular room, for instance.