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District Council

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Rural District Council

Matched in: Term Rural District Council

Local authority

Local authority, includes panchayatiraj institutions, municipalities, a district board, cantonment board, town planning authority or Zila Parishad or any other body or authority, by whatever name … for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321. Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law

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Rural Authority

as a reference to the council temporarily administering the affairs of the district. So far as a rural district council is a council of a county district, it is an authority invested with the duty of carrying the

Sanitary authority

county, as respects certain matters, the county council, and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such councils, and 'local'

London

entrusted by the Metropolitan Management Act, 1855, to the Metropolitan Board, the members of vestries representing parishes, and district boards representing combinations of parishes, which conducted its local government. The franchise and qualifications were, by the Local … 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 120), the powers of which board are transferred to the London County Council, the number of councillors consisting of double the number of parliamentary members. The general government of London was

County Councils

and other officers; (10) Control of officrs paid out of the county rate; (11) Coroner's salary, fees, and district; (12) The execution as local authority of Acts relating to destructive insects, to fish conservancy, to wild birds, … County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business

District Registry

Matched in: Term District Registry

Local Government

districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL; PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH COUNCIL. Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The Act established

Royalty

(1985) 3 SCR 26. Royalty on timber brought from private forests imposed by executive committee of Jowai Auto-nomous District Council is in fact a compulsory exaction of money by a public authority for public purposes enforceable by law … truly, in the nature of a tax. It is not royalty since forest does not belong to the District Council. 'Royalty' according to Jowitts' Dictionary of English Law means a payment reserved by the grantor of a patent,

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