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Sanitary authority. The name, under the Public Health Acts prior to the P.H. Act, 1936, of the authorities for the purposes of those Acts. Under the Act of 1936 they are (i) in a county borough, the council of the borough, (ii) in an administrative county, as respects certain matters, the county council, and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such councils, and 'local' authority means the council of a borough; urban district or rural district. 'Urban' or 'rural' authority means the respective council (see RURAL AUTHORITY), 'district' in relation to the local authority of a borough means the borough, and 'parish' in relation to a common parish council acting for two or more grouped parishes means those parishes. As to Port Health Authorities, see QUARANTINE....
Save with the authority of law and except by authority law
Save with the authority of law and except by authority law, there is no distinction between the expression, 'save with the authority of law' in art. 31(1) and the expression 'except by authority of law' in art. 265. Laws under art. 31(1) must lay down a procedure containing reasonable restric-tions. Law under art. 265 also lays down a pro-cedure. Therefore, there is no difference between the expression 'except according to procedure established by law' in art. 21 and the expression save with the authority of law' in art. 31(1) or the expression 'except by authority of law' in art. 265, Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207: (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172. (Constitution of India, Art. 21)...
Appropriate 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....
Judicial authority
Judicial authority, by using the expression 'judicial authority' it was clearly indicated that the appell-ate authority must be one such pre-existing authority which was exercising judicial power of the State. If any other authority as persona designat was to be constituted there was no purpose in qualifying the word 'authority' by the specific adjective 'judicial', Thakur Das v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1978 SC 1 (4): (1978) 1 SCC 27: (1978) 1 SCR 732.Is defined as it is not necessary that it should be a court in the sense in which this court is a court; it is enough if it is exercising, after hearing evidence, judicial functions in the sense that it has to decide on evidence between a proposal and an opposition and it is not necessary to be strictly a court, R. v. London County Council, (1931) 2 KB 215: 100 LJKB 760: 144 LT 464 (CA)...
Other authorities
Other authorities, the expression 'other authorities' is wide enough to include within it every authority created by a statute and functioning within the territory of India, or under the control of the Government of India, Rajasthan State Electricity Board v. Mohan Lal, AIR 1967 SC 1857 (1862): (1967) 3 SCR 377. (Constitution of India, Article 12)The expression 'other authorities' includes all statutory authorities and other agencies and instrumentalities of the State Government/Central Government, Indra Sawhney v. Union of India, 1992 Supp (3) SCC 217 (687). (Constitution of India, Article 12)The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research is not an authority within the meaning of article 12 of the Constitution, Sabhajit Tewary v. Union of India, AIR 1975 SC 1329 (1331). (Constitution of India Article 12)...
Foreign Jurisdiction Acts (English)
Foreign Jurisdiction Acts (English): 6 & 7 Vict. c. 94; 28 & 29 Vict. c. 116; 29 & 30 Vict. c. 87; 38 & 39 Vict. c. 85; and 41 & 42 Vict. C. 67; consolidated by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 37) (extended by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1913 [3 & 4 Geo. 5, c. 16)], which regulates the exercise by the Crown of the powers and jurisdiction acquired by it (whether by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, or otherwise) in countries out of the dominions f the British Crown.A decree by a foreign court over a matter outside its jurisdiction has no effect, Lecouturier v. Rey, 1910 AC 262....
Court having admiralty jurisdiction
Court having admiralty jurisdiction. The legislature of a British possession may by any Colonial Law Q:-(a) declare any court of unlimited civil jurisdiction whether original or appellate, in that possession to be a Colonial Court of Admiralty, and provide for the exercise by such Court of its jurisdiction under this Act, and limit territorially, or otherwise, the extent of such jurisdiction; and (b) confer upon any inferior or subordinate Court in that possession such partial or limited Admiralty jurisdiction under such regulations and with such appeal (if any) as may seem fit. [Colonial Courts of Admiralty (India) Act, 1891 (16 of 1891), s. 3]...
International Airports Authority
International Airports Authority, 'International Airports Authority' means the International Airports Authority of India constituted under s. 3 of the International Airports Authority Act, 1971 (43 of 1971). [Airports Authority of India Act, 1994 (55 of 1994), s. 2(k)]...
Summary jurisdiction
Summary jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of a court to give a judgment or make an order itself forthwith, e.g., to commit to prison for contempt, to punish malpractice in a solicitor, or in the case of justices of the peace, a jurisdiction to convict an offender themselves instead of committing him for trial by a jury. The mode of exercising this latter jurisdiction, which is given in particular instances by very numerous particular statutes, is generally regulated by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, 1848 and 1879. Several amendments have been made in the law by the Criminal Justice Administration Act, 1914, and Criminal Justice Act, 1925; see also HUSBAND AND WIFE. see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices' and Stone's Justices Manual; and also SESSIONS OF THE PEACE....
Court of competent jurisdiction
Court of competent jurisdiction, the expression 'a Court of competent jurisdiction' envisaged in s. 465 is to denote a validity constituted Court conferred with jurisdiction to try the offence or offences. Such a Court will not get denuded of its competence to try the case on account of any procedural lapse and the competence would remain unaffected by the non-compliance of the procedural requirement. The inability to take cognizance of an offence without a committal order does not mean that a duly constituted Court became an incompetent Court for all purposes, State of Madhya Pradesh v. Bhooraji, (2001) 7 SCC 679: AIR 2001 SC 3372 (3778). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 465(1)]The expression 'a court of competent jurisdiction envisaged in s. 465' is to denote a validly constituted court conferred with jurisdiction to try the offence or offences, State of Madhya Pradesh v. Bhooraji, (2001) 7 SCC 679. [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, s. 465(1)]...
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