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Trade Boards. The Trade Boards Act, 1909, as amended by the Trade Boards Act, 1918, applies to certain trades specified in the Schedule, and to such others as are brought within the Act by Order of the Board of Trade or by special Order of the Minister of Labour. The Board of Trade can establish Trade Boards with respect to such trades, and the Boards when established must fix minimum rates for both time work and piecework. Notice must be given of the minimum rates established, and such rates are obligatory on employers, who are placed under penalties if they fail to pay in accordance with such rates. s. 11 gives the constitution and proceedings of Trade Boards under this section:(1) The Board of Trade may make regulations with respect to the constitution of Trade Boards, which shall consist of members representing employers and members representing workers (in this Act referred to as representative members) in equal proportions and of the appointed members. Any such regulations may be...
Free-board, or freebord
Free-board, or freebord. The precise nature of free-board is not very clear, but it may be described as denoting certain rights enjoyed by the owner of an ancient park over a strip of ground, varying in width indifferent cases, running along the outside of the boundary fence. The right seems to be ofthe nature of a negative easement, its essence apparently consisting in the right of the owner of the park to have the strip kept free, open and unbuilt upon. Cowel (Law Dict.) has the following: 'Free-board, Francbordus, in some places they claim as a Free-bord, more or less ground beyond or without the fence. In Mon. Angl. 2 par. Fol. 241, it is said to contain two foot and a half.' He then quotes the passage from Dugdale, but inaccurately, the correct reading being as follows: Et totum boscum quod vocatur Brendewode, cum frankbordo duorum pedum et dimidium, per circuitum illius bosci, etc.; see Dugd. Mon., Edn. Caley Ellis & Bandinel, vol. vi. P. 375. Du Cange simply says, 'Francbordus A...
Board
Board [fr. A. Sax. Bord, a plank or table], a body of persons having delegated to them certain powers of the Central Government, as the Board of Trade, the Board of Control, the Board of Admiralty, and the Local Government Board; or elected for the purposes of local government, as a Board of Guardians under the Poor Law Acts, a Local Board under the Public Health Acts; or elected as directors by the shareholders in public companies.Means the Board of Directors of a Credit Information Company. [Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act, 2005 (30 of 2005), s. 2(a)]...
Trade, Board of
Trade, Board of. The Board of Trade is in theory a committee of the Privy Council, and by s. 12 of the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889, the expression means 'The Lords of the Committee for the time being of the Privy Council appointed for the consideration of matters relating to trade and foreign plantations.' The constitution of the Board rests on an Order in Council of the 5th March, 1784, by which amongst the members composing it are the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Paymaster-General and the Master of the Mint.The Board as to constituted has in fact never met, but in practice is an ordinary administrative Government Department, presided over by a President whose salary is determined by Parliament under the (English) Board of Trade Act, 1909 (9 Edw. 7, c. 23); see also President of Board of Trade Act, 1932 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 21). Its powers include supervision over the following matters: shipping, railways, mines, companies, bankruptcy and in...
board
board often cap 1 a : a group of individuals having managerial, supervisory, investigatory, or advisory powers over a public or private business, trust, or other organization or institution [Board of Regents] [Board of Bar Overseers] b : board of directors 2 a : a group of citizens elected to administer the business of or an aspect of the business of a political unit (as a town or county) [a of selectmen] b : a federal, state, or local government agency see also National Labor Relations Board in the Important Agencies section 3 : a securities or commodities exchange see also board of trade ...
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health)
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health). This Board was established by the (English) Local Government Board Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 70), which concentrated in one department of the Government 'the supervision of the laws relating to the public health, the relief of the poor, and local government,' and transferred thereto all the powers of the Poor Law Board, all the powers of a Secretary of State as to registration of births, deaths, and marriages, public health, drainage, local government, etc. (as mentioned in scheduled Acts), and all powers of the Privy Council as to prevention of disease, and vaccination (as mentioned in scheduled Acts). The (English) Ministry of Health Act, 1919, s.11, transferred all the powers and duties of the Local Government Board to the Ministry of Health. All references in statutes to the Local Government Board must be read as referring to the Ministry of Health (S. 11, Sched. I.)....
Succeeding board
Succeeding board, means a succeeding board at which the old outgoing members are succeeded by a new set of members. Once they are appointed or elected as the case may be, and a meeting of the new Board with quorum takes place, the previous set of members ceases to be a part of the board, Bihar State Board of Homoeopathic Medicine, Patna v. State of Bihar, (1995) 6 SCC 503. (See Bihar Develop-ment of Homoeopathic System of Medicine Act, 1953, s. 5)...
Appellate Board
Appellate Board, means the Appellate Board established under s. 83, Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), s. 2(a).Means the Appellate Board established under s. 83 of the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (48 of 1999), s. 2(a).Means Appellate Board established under s. 32, Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000 (37 of 2000), s. 2(a)....
Asylums Board
Asylums Board. The Metropolitan Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating to cases of insanity (inter alia) among the poor in London. The Lancashire Asylums Board, established by the Lancashire County Council under statutory powers, carried out similar duties in Lancashire. These boards and their powers were transferred to the London County Council or the respective local authorities by the Local Government Act, 1928 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17)....
Education, Board of
Education, Board of. The central authority as to education (Education Act, 1921, s. 1) was establi-shed by the Board of Education Act, 1899. There is a Consultative Committee for advising the Board (s. 2 of the 1921 Act). The Board never, in fact, meets, but its duties are carried out by the President, who is usually a member of the Cabinet. It superseded the Education Department (q.v.)....
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