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Financial year

Financial year. By s. 22 of the (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 63):-In this Act and in every Act passed after the commencement of this Act [Jan. 1, 1890] the expression 'financial year' shall, unless the contrary intention appears, means as respects any matters relating to the Consolidated Fund, or moneys provided by Parliament, or to the Exchequer, or to Imperial taxes or finance, the 12 months ending the 31st day of March.Financial year shall means the year commencing on the first day of April. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(21)]Means the year ending on the 31st day of March, Bengal Engineering and Science University Shibpur Act, 2004, s. 2(5).Means the year beginning on the 1st April and ending on the 31st March of the next following year, Maharashtra Fiscal Responsibility and Budgetary Management Act, 2005, s. 2(b).Means the year beginning on the Ist April and ending on the 31st March next following, Rajasthan Fiscal Responsibilities and Budget ...


Money of account, money of measurement money of payment

Money Bill, cannot be introduced in the Council of States. [Constitution of India, Art. 109(1)]Money Bill, cannot be referred to Joint Committee, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 74.Money Bill, in India, the Speaker endorses certificate on Money Bill, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 96.Money Bill, is a Bill which contains only provisions dealing with the imposition, repeal, remission, alteration or regulation of taxation etc., Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 806.Money Bill, on a Bill being introduced in the Council at a subsequent stage if an objection is taken that the Bill is a Money Bill, the Chairman shall, if he holds the objects valid, direct the termination of further proceeding of the Bill. If Chairman is doubtful regarding the validity of the objection, he shall refer the matter to the Speaker whose decision on the matter shall be final, Rules of Procedure and Cond...


Tithe Rent-Charge

Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...


Crown lands

Crown lands. The demesne lands of the Crown, which it is now usual for the sovereign to surrender at the commencement of his reign for its whole duration, in consideration of the Civil List settled upon him. Crown lands have been distributed and are managed respectively by the Commissioners of (English) Crown Lands (incorporated by Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17& 18 Geo. 5, c. 23), the Commissioners of Works; the Board of Trade; the Forestry Commissionrs; the Treasury. The revenues go to the Consolidated Fund, and they are managed under a series of (English) Crown Lands Acts, from the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1829 (c. 50), to the (English) Crown Lands Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 23). See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Crown....


Civil list

Civil list, an annual sum granted by Parliament at the commencement of each reign, for the expenses of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state; it is the provision made for the Crown out of the taxes, in lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the assignment of that patrimony to the public use. This arrangement has prevailed from the time of the Revolution downwards, though the amount fixed for the civil list has been subject in different reigns to considerable variation. At the commencement of her reign a civil list was settled by the (English) Civil List Act, 1837 (1 Vict. c. 2), upon her late Majesty Queen Victoria for life, to the amount of 3,85,000l. was assigned for her Majesty's privy purse; in return for which grant it was provided that the hereditary revenues of the Crown (with the exception of the hereditary duties of excise on beer, ale, and cider, which were to be discontinued during the reign, and as to...


Appropriation Act

Appropriation Act, An Act so named is passed every year for the purpose of applying sums out of the Consolidated Fund (see that title) to the service of the year, and for appropriating the supplies granted by Parliament....


Appropriation Accounts

Appropriation Accounts, 'appropriation accounts' means accounts which relate the expenditure brought to account during a financial year, to the several items specified in the law made in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution or of the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963, (20 of 1963) for the appropriation of moneys out of the Consolidated Fund of India or of State, or of a Union Territory having a Legislative Assembly, as the case may be. [Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Power and Conditions of Service Act, (56 of 1971), s. 2(b)]...


Borough Funds Acts

Borough Funds Acts. The (English) Borough Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 91) (commonly called Leeman's Act), authorized borough councils and governing bodies of other urban districts to apply public funds under their control to promoting or opposing bills in Parliament or to prosecute or defend legal proceedings in the interest of their constituents, but will not allow of their indemnifying the chief constable for costs he has incurred in opposing a licensing appeal at Quarter Sessions, Tynemouth Corporation v. A.-G., 1899 AC 293; and the Borough Funds Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 14), has materially amended that Act by requiring the resolutions of councils to promote bills to be submitted to public meetings, and dispensing with the consent of owners and rate-payers to incurring expense in opposing bills. See now the (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 254 et seq., which consolidates and amends both the 1872 and 1903 Acts, but does not apply to London. See C...


Factory

Factory, a place where a number of traders reside in a foreign country for the convenience of trade; also a building in which goods are manufactured.In the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, 'Factory' means by s. 149 'textile factory and non-textile factory, or either of those descriptions of factories.'The expression 'textile factory' means any premises wherein or within the close or curtilage of which steam, water or other mechanical power is used to move or work any machinery employed in preparing, manufacturing or finishing or in any process incident to the manufacture of cotton, wool, hair, silk, flax, hemp, jute, tow, china-grass, cocoanut fibre or other like material, either separately or mixed together or mixed with any other material, or any fabric made thereof:Provided that print works, bleaching and dyeing works, lace warehouses, paper mills, flax scutch mills, rope works and hat works shall not be deemed to be textiles factories.'Tenement factory' means a factory when mechanic...


Poor laws

Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...



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