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Interested Director

the contract or arrangement or even the mere fact of a lawyer-client relationship with such directors will not disqualify a person from acting as a Director on the ground of his being, under s. 300(1), an 'interested'

Office of profit

that where a member accepts an office of profit under the Crown, the holding of which does not disqualify him from being re-elected but only from continuing a member, he shall not be obliged to vacate his

Workmen's Compensation Act

from earning full wages in his employment [s. 1 (1) (a), ibid.], and serious and wilful misconduct may disqualify unless the injury results in death or serious and permanent disablement [s. 1 (1) (b), as explained by

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Casting vote

or president of a deliberative assembly when the suffrages of the meeting are equal. The chairman, though not disqualified by law from voting, Nell v. Longbottom, 1894 (1) QB 767, is usually not entitled to vote in

Justices

s. 304 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, a justice of the peace is not to be disqualified from acting in cases arising under that Act by reason only of his being liable in common with

House of Lords

and Ireland; (3) life peers, i.e., Lords of Appeal in Ordinary. The Lord High Chancellor presides. Bankrupts are disqualified from sitting or voting by s. 32 of the Bankruptcy Act, 1883. The assent of the House of

House of Commons

9 Geo. 5, c. 47), women became qualified to be members of the House of Commons, and sex disqualifications for office were removed by the Sex Disqualifications (Removal) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 71);

Elisors

court to assemble a jury, serve a writ perform other duties of sheriff or coroner if either is disqualified, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 538.

Dog

Protection of Animals Act, 1911, of an offence of cruelty to a dog, to order him to be disqualified for keeping a dog and for holding or obtaining a dog license for such period as the Court

Directors

signed on behalf of the company, Chapman v. Smethurst, (1909) 1 KB 927. The (English) Companies Act, 1929, disqualifies (ss. 140 and 141) a person from being appointed director of a company or from being named in

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