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A place where copper is wrought or manufactured...
Alkali works
Alkali works, The Acts regulating alkali works, 26 & 27 Vict. c. 120-a temporary Act, made perpetual by 31 & 32 Vict. c. 36-and 37 & 38 Vict. c. 43, were consolidated and amended by the alkali, etc., (English) Works Regulation Act, 1881 (44 & 45 Vict. c. 37), s. 29 of which defined 'alkali work' as 'every work for the manufacture of alkali, sulphate of soda, or sulphate of potash in which muriatic acid gas is evolved,' and recently after further amend-ment in 1892, again consolidated with additional amendments by the Alkali, etc., (English) Works Regulation Act, 1906 (6 Edw. 7, c. 14), by s. 27 of which the expression 'alkali work' means every work for-(a) the manufacture of sulphate of soda or sulphate of potash, or (b) the treatment of copper ores by common salt or other chlorides whereby any sulphate is formed, in which muriatic acid gas is evolved....
Copper bottomed
Having a bottom made of copper as a tin boiler or other vessel or sheathed with copper as a ship...
Copper faced
Faced or covered with copper as copper faced type...
Copper fastened
Fastened with copper bolts as the planks of ships etc as a copper fastened ship...
copper bottom
to provide with a copper bottom...
Coppering
The act of covering with copper...
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...
Equal pay for equal work
Equal pay for equal work, it does not mean that all the members of a cadre must receive the same pay packet irrespective of their seniority, source of recruitment, educational qualifications and various other incidents of service, State of Andhra Pradesh v. G. Sreenivasa Rao, (1989) 2 SCC 290.Article 39(d) of the Constitution proclaims 'equal pay for equal work for both men and women' as a Directive Principle of State Policy. Equal pay for equal work for both men and women means equal pay for equal work for everyone and as between the sexes. The Preamble to the Constitution declares the solemn resolution of the people of India to constitute India into a Sovereign Socialist Democratic Republic. Again the word 'Socialist' must mean some thing. Even if it does not mean to each according to his need it must at least mean 'equal pay for equal work'.'The principle of equal pay for equal work is expressly recognized by all socialist systems of law, e.g., s. 59 of the Hungarian Labour Code, Pa...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
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