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Executive Council, means the Executive Council of the University, the Manipur University Act, 2005, s. 2(l).Means the Executive Council of the University, Mizoram University Act, 2000, s. 2(f)....
County Councils
County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are nominated by the Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the Act, and consisting of 'the chairman, aldermen, and councillors.' The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to local authorities.The councillors are elected, for separate electroal divisions,' the qualification for elctors being that required under the Representation of the People Acts, and the qualification for being elected similar to that required for electionto office onany local authority. Ministers of religion are not disqulaified, and peers owing property in the county and persons registered as parliamentary voters in respect of the ownership of property in the county are qual...
Inter-State Council
Inter-State Council, in Australia an inter-State Commission is established for the execution and maintenance within the Commonwealth of the provisions of the Australian Constitution relating to trade and commerce; in U.S.A. the Council of State Governments is created to consider inter-State problems of broadest character, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, 6th Edn., Vol. K, p. 200.Inter-State Council, in India, the Inter-State Council is established by the President by an Order in the public interest the President defines the nature of duties to be performed by it and its organisation and procedure; the duties of the Council are:(a) to inquire into and advise upon disputes which may have arises between States;(b) to investigate and discuss subject of common interest between the Union and the States or between two or more States;(c) to make recommendation upon any such subject particularly for better co-ordination of policy and action with respect to that subject, ...
Order in Council
Order in Council, an order made by the Sovereign 'by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council.' Such orders are now largely used for the purpose of completing the Administrative part of Acts of Parliament. The Government of the day is responsible for them, and they are usually issued in a complete form from the administrative department concerned, the authorization by the Privy Council being a mere formality. As pointed out by Lord Parker in The Zamora (1916) 2 AC 90, neither the King in Council nor any branch of the Executive has power to prescribe or alter the law by Order in Council, save when expressly authorized by statute. See STATUTORY RULES....
Parliamentary executive
Parliamentary executive, in the Indian Constitution, we have the same system of Parliamentary executive as in England and the Council of Ministers consisting, as it does, of the members of the legislature is, like the British Cabinet, 'a hyphen which joins, a buckle which fastens the legislative part of the State to the executive part,' Ram Jawaya v. State of Punjab, AIR 1955 SC 549 (556). [Constitution of India, Article 203]...
Deemed to have been executed
Deemed to have been executed, that a deed which had been sealed by a corporation aggregate in accordance with that section should be 'deemed to have been executed, Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council v. Torkington, (2004) 2 WLR 426 [Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 74(1)]...
council
council : a governmental body: as a : a group elected as a legislative body [city ] b : an administrative body [ on aging] c : an executive body whose members are equal in power and authority compare committee ...
security council
security council The executive body of the United Nations, charged with the duty of preventing or stopping wars by diplomatic, economic or military action. Source: FindLaw ...
General Council
General Council (of the Bar), the full title of the Bar Council. See BAR COUNCIL.General Council (of the Catholic Church), a council consisting of members of the Church from most parts of the world, but not from every part, as an --cumenical Council.'The General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom' (Medical Act, 1858). The Medical Council, as it is commonly called, has power to settle the qualifications of medical practitioners and to strike off the register any of them convicted of felony or misdemeanour or judged guilty by the Council of 'infamous conduct in any professional respect' (s. 29), see R. v. General Medical Council, Ex parte Kynaston, (1930) 1 KB 562. The High Court has no jurisdiction to interfere with the Council's bona fide decision, Allbutt v. Medical Council, (1889) 23 QBD 400. The Council consists of five Crown nominees, twenty-two persons chosen by the same number of universities and colleges, and five persons elected by the registere...
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
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