Agricultural Worker - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: agricultural workeragricultural worker
agricultural worker As a nonimmigrant class of admission, an alien coming temporarily to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services, as defined by the Secretary of Labor. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
special agricultural worker
special agricultural worker Farm workers in perishable products who worked for a specified period of time and were able to adjust status to lawful permanent resident according to the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Commercial unit of agricultural land
Commercial unit of agricultural land, is a unit capable, when framed under competent manage-ment of producing a net annual income of an amount not less than the aggregate of the average annual earnings of two full-time male agricultural workers aged 20 or over, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(2), para 367, p. 195....
immigration reform and control act (irca) of 1986
immigration reform and control act (irca) of 1986 Public Law 99-603 (Act of 11/6/86), which was passed in order to control and deter illegal immigration to the United States. Its major provisions stipulate legalization of undocumented aliens who had been continuously unlawfully present since 1982, legalization of certain agricultural workers, sanctions for employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers, and increased enforcement at U.S. borders. Source: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...
saw
saw See Special Agricultural Worker. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
temporary worker
temporary worker A foreign worker who will work in the United States for a limited period of time. Some visas classes for temporary workers are H, L, O, P, Q and R. If you are seeking to come to the U.S. for employment as a temporary worker in the U.S. (H, L, O, P, and Q visas), your prospective employer must file a petition with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), USCIS. This petition must be approved by USCIS before you can apply for a visa. Select temporary workers to visit the USCIS website and learn more. Select temporary worker visas to go to the Department of State website to learn more, and review information about NAFTA workers (TN visa) and treaty traders/investors (E visas). Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933
Agricultural Marketing Acts, 1931 to 1933 (English), The Act of 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 42) enables schemes to be made for regulating the marketing of agricultural products, foods and drinks made or derived therefrom, and fleeces and skins of animals, to establish marketing boards in connection with such schemes, to establish funds for loans to these boards, and to encourage agricultural co-operation, research and education. The Act of 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 31) amends and extends the 1931 Act by provisions for restrictions on the importation and sale of agricultural products and for the production of such secondary agricultural products wholly or partly manufactured or derived from another agricultural products as may be specified by an order in force under s. 7, Part II., of the Act of 1933. Schemes under the Act of 1931 may be submitted by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after consultation with the Board of Trade by laying a draft before each House of Parliament, and if...
Agricultural produce
Agricultural produce, Sugar is 'Agricultural Produce', Kishan Lal v. State of Rajasthan, 1990 Supp SCC 742 (745): AIR 1990 SC 2569. [Rajasthan Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (38 of 1961), s. 2(1) (i)]The term 'agricultural produce' according to its definition contained under s. 2(a) of the Act means all produce, whether processed or not, of agricultural, horticulture, animal husbandry or forest as specified in the Schedule to the Act. Sheep-hair is consequently an agricultural produce within the meaning of the Act so that the various provisions therein with regard to agricultural produce are applicable to sheep-hair also, Modanlal Manoharlal v. State of Haryana, (1990) 1 SCC 184: AIR 1990 SC 556 (559). [Punjab Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1961 (23 of 1961) s. 2(a)]See also Belsund Sugar Co. Ltd. v. State of Bihar, (1999) 9 SCC 620: AIR 1999 SC 3125. [Bihar Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1960 (16 of 1960) ss. 2(1)(a), 27 and 15]Agricultural produce includes food stuffs b...
Agriculture
Agriculture, the term 'agriculture' has been defined in various dictionaries both in the narrow sense and in the wider sense. In the narrow sense agriculture is cultivation of the field. In the wider sense it comprises all activities in relation to land including horticulture, forestry, breeding and rearing of livestock, dairying, butter and cheese-making, husbandry, etc. Whether the narrower or the wider sense of the term 'agriculture' should be adopted in a particular case depends not only upon the provisions of the various statutes in which the same occurs but also upon the facts and circumstances of each case, Maheshwari Seed Farm v. T.N. Electricity Board, (2004) 4 SCC 705 (711): AIR 2004 SC 2341.Agriculture includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the framing of land for othe...
Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of (English). The Board of Agriculture, created by the Board of Agriculture Act, 1889, to take over the powers of the Privy Council as to the diseases of animals, and of the Land Commissioners under the Copyhold, Inclosure and Tithe Acts, etc., had transferred to it by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1903, the powers of the Board of Trade under the Salmon Fishery Act, 1861, the Sea Fisheries Regulations Act, 1868, and other Fishery Acts, and took the style of 'The Board of Agriculture and Fisheries.' There is power to appoint two secretaries, who can sit and vote in the House of Commons. The Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1919, replaced the Board and its President by a Minister and Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The Board had in fact never met, but its opinions had been those of its permanent officials and of its President. See Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Act, 1909, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Act,...
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