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Clearance area. Under the Housing Acts, 1930-35, substantially reproduced by the Housing Act,1936, the local authority may (see ss. 25 et seq., 1936 Act) declare any area in their district to be a clearance area where they are satisfied that the houses there are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects or bad arrangement either of the houses or streets dangerous to the health of the inhabitants in the area, and after marking off on a map of the area and excluding from the area any building which is not unfit for human habitation or dangerous and injurious to health, they may, by a clearance order obtained from the Minister of Health, see Errington v. Minister of Health, 1935 (1) KB 249, and subject to formalities under ss. 51-53 of the H. Act, 1936, and if the owner has not obtained a certificate of re-conditioning fitness, order the demolition of the buildings in the area or purchase the land compulsorily or by agreement, or themselves secure the demolition of the buildings. A limit...
Clearance, special VFR
Clearance, special VFR, means a clearance given by the appropriate air traffic control unit to an aircraft for flight with in airspace notified for the purpose of any paragraph of r. 36 if the aircraft remains clear of cloud, within sight of the surface and is flown in accordance with any special instructions given by that unit, r. 36(2) of Air Regulation, 1990 (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1406, p. 691....
Clearance
The act of clearing as to make a thorough clearance...
Clearance
Clearance, a certificate that a ship has been examined and cleared at the Custom House. See s. 101 and other ss. of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Customs.'...
Clearance, air traffic control
Clearance, air traffic control, means authorisation by an air traffic control unit for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by that unit; Rules of the Air Regulation 1990, SI 1990/2241, Sch. 1(1) (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1403, p. 689....
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Landing charges
Landing charges, are the expenditure incurred by an importer for bringing goods on board ship to land. Landing charges, in law, must be assessed on actuals, but, as a matter of practice, particularly to facilitate expenditure clearance. Landing charges are assessed at a percentage of the value of the goods and such assessment is accepted. When so assessed, landing charges cover the totality of all that an importer expends to bring imported goods to land, M/s Coromandal Fertilisers Ltd. v. Collection of Customs, AIR 2000 SC 606.Are exactly what the words mean, the expenditure incurred by an importer for bringing goods on board ship to land. Landing charges, in law, must be assessed on actuals, but, as a matter of practice, particularly to facilitate expeditious clearance, landing charges are assessed at a percentage of the value of the goods and such assessment is accepted. When so assessed, landing charges cover the totality of all that an importer expends to bring imported goods to la...
documentarily qualified
documentarily qualified Refers to an immigrant visa applicant who has: 1) returned Form DS 2001 (from the Instruction Package) to visa-issuing post (or in some cases, to the National Visa Center), OR 2) informed post in another way that he/she has all the documents for his/her immigrant visa application, and the post has completed its clearance procedures. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
checkpoint
a place as at a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance...
Clearage
The act of removing anything clearance...
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