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Building Acts (English)
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Museum
the Board of Education by 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 21, and see the (English) Public Libraries Acts, 1892 and 1919. By the latter Act, 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 93, museums were transferred to … Museum. A building or institution for the cultiva-tion of science, favoured by the legislature in the Public Libraries Act, is in
Gilbert Acts (English)
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Insurance
statutes, viz., to 35 Geo. 3, c. 63, and to 30 Vict. c. 23, both of them Revenue Acts. The policy was settled in its present form in 1779, but most of its provisions are of much … or by annual payments, undertakes to indemnify the assured against all loss or damage to houses or other buildings, stock, goods, and merchandise, by fire during a specified period. Insurances against fire are hardly ever made by
Building
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Audit
service gratuitously. The public accounts are audited under the (English) Exchequer and Audit Act, 1866 (repealing twenty-two prior Acts). The most important of the many enactments as to audit of accounts of local authorities were the (English) … except by their own default. As to an auditor's personal liability for failure of duty, see Leeds Estate Building & Investment Co. v. Shepherd, (1887) 36 CD 787; Re Republic of Bolivia, etc., Ltd., (1914) 1 Ch
Rent
(8) Ground-rent, the rent reserved on a lease generally in respect of land let on condition that certain buildings are built thereon. For the purposes of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205 (xxiii.), ibid.,
Workmen's Compensation Act
out for cash, deferred payment or other valuable consideration, the construction fitting out, improvement or repair of any building, road, bridge or any other immovable property, or manufacture, processing, fabrication, erection, installation, fitting out, improvement, modification, repair, … workmen by employers in a restricted number of trades. The gist of a right to compensation under the Acts is 'accident arising out of and in the course of the employment' causing personal injury to a workman … fortification or any of the several parts of such structures, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary; Kartar Singh Bhadana v. Hari Singh Nalwa, (2001) 4 SCC 661.
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