Appropriate Authority - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: appropriate authorityAppropriate authority
Appropriate authority, means the Appropriate Authority appointed under s. 13. [Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 (42 of 1994), s. 2 (b)]Means the Appropriate Authority appointed under s. 17. [Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 (57 of 1994), s. 2 (a)]Means, in relation to a bridge for the maintenance of which a bridge authority is responsible, or a road passing over such a bridge, the bridge authority; and in relation to any other road, the traffic authority and any other person responsible for the maintenance of the road, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 240, Note 2, p. 177....
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Public authority
Public authority, in the policy statement is not a term of art. It must be construed in a purpose way, taking particular account of the context, McFarland HL(NI) (in re:), (2004) 1 WLR 1289.Is a body, not necessarily a country council, municipal corporation or other local authority, which has public or statutory duties to perform and which perform those duties and carries out its transactions for the benefit of the public and not for private profit, Halsbury's Laws of England, 3rd Edn., Vol. 30, p. 682.Means any authority or body established or con-stituted,--(i) by or under the Constitution;(ii) by any law made by the appropriate Government,and includes any other body owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly by the appropriate Government. [Freedom of Information Act, 2002 (5 of 2003), s. 2(f)]Public Authority--Karnataka University being an authority under Article 12 of the constitution is covered by the definition of public authority, Shivan...
Appropriate government
Appropriate government, means in relation to public authority which is established, constituted, owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly--(i) by the Central Government or the Union Territory administration, the Central Government, (ii) by the State Government, the State Government [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(a)]The Appropriate Government means, in relation to fees or stamp relating to documents presented or to be presented before any officer serving under the Central Government, that Government, and in relation to any other fees or stamps, the State Government. [Court-Fees Act, 1870 (7 of 1870), s. 1A]Means as respects any matter--(i) enumerated in List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. (ii) relating to any State law enacted under List III of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (e)]Means in relation to any major port the Central Government, an...
Appropriation, powers of
Appropriation, powers of. The Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 41,has conferred on personal representatives a general power to appropriate any part of the real or personal estate (including things in action) of the deceased in its actual condition or state of investment at the time of appropriation in or towards satisfaction of any legacy or interest or share in his property as to the personal representative may seem just or reasonable having regard to the rights of the persons interested in that property subject to the consent of the person entitled to that part, or to the income (if the share is settled), or of his parent, guardian, committee or receiver if he is under incapacity owing to infancy or otherwise. No other consents are required and provision is made for dispensing with any consent. Any property when duly appropriated is to be treated as an authorized investment. An appropriation with consent under this Act is subjected to an ad valorem duty as a conveyance. Aliter...
Public authorities
Public authorities, means any authority or body or institution of self-government established or constituted (a) by or under the constitution (b) by any other law made by parliament, (c) by any other law made by State legislature (d) by notification issued or order made by the appropriate government and includes any-(i) body owned, cancelled or substantially financed (ii) non-government organisation substantially financed directly or indirectly by funds provided by the appropriate government. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005), s. 2(h)]...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
appropriate
appropriate -at·ed -at·ing [Late Latin appropriare to take possession of, from ad to, for + proprius one's own] 1 : to set apart for or assign to a particular recipient, purpose, or use [the legislature appropriating funds for the program] 2 : to take or make use of without authority or right ap·pro·pri·a·tion [ə-prō-prē-ā-shən] n ...
appropriation
appropriation In governmental accounting, an expenditure authorized for a specified amount, purpose and time. Source: FindLaw ...
Controlling authority
Controlling authority, means an authority appointed by the appropriate Government under s. 3. [Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 (39 of 1972), s. 2 (d)]...
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