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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)....
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....
To regulate the work and conduct of the officers
To regulate the work and conduct of the officers, it is a settled principle that when the Act prescribes a particular body to exercise a power, it must be exercised only by that body. It cannot be exercised by others unless it is delegated. The power to regulate the work and conduct of officers cannot include the power to take disciplinary action for their removal. The Act confers power to appoint officers on the Executive Council and it generally includes the power to remove, Marathwada University v. Sesh Rao Balwant Rao Chavan, AIR 1989 SC 1582: (1989) 3 SCC 132: (1989) 2 SCR 454...
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
India
India, the territory of India comprises the territories of the States and that of Union territories which are specified in Sch. 1 of the Constitution and any other territories which may be acquired, Constitution of India, Art. 1(3)(a), (b), (c).means Bharat, a Union of States, Constitution of India, Art. 1.India, in 1876, by the (English) Royal Titles Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 6), Queen Victoria was empowered to add to the style of the Crown, with a view of recognizing the transfer of the Government of India to the Queen by the Government of India Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106), and the addition of 'Empress of India' was made by Proclamation in April, 1876, with which addition as 'Emperor of India' it has passed to his present Majesty.In any Act of Parliament passed after 1889 the expression 'British India' means 'all territories and places within her Majesty's dominions which are for the time being governed by her Majesty through the Governor-General of India or through any govern...
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, ...
Rural Authority
Rural Authority. Under the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 1, means the council of a rural district, provided that where a direction such as is mentioned in the Local Government Act, 1933, s. 42 (2) is in force; a reference to a rural authority in the P.H. Act shall be construed 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 P.H. Act into execution as provided by the Act without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred upon such councils. Under s. 12, ibid., rural districts may constitute special purpose areas for charging exclusively sewage, water, or drainage expenses, and see s. 309, ibid., as to such expenses. Section 13 enables the Minister of health to invest any rural district or any contributory place therein with urban powers. See WATCHING AND LIGHTING....
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]...
Royalty
Royalty, a payment reserved by the grantor of a patent, lease of a mine or similar right, and payable proportionately to the use made of the right by the grantee. It is usually a payment of money, but may be a payment in kind, that is, of part of the produce of the exercise of the right, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, 2nd End., p. 1595.In the legal world, is known as the equivalent or translation of jura 'regalia' or 'jura regia'. Royal rights and prerogatives of a sovereign are covered thereunder. In its secondary sense, the word 'royalty' would signify, as in mining leases, that part of the reddendum, variable thought, payable in cash or kind, for rights and privileges obtained, Inderjeet Singh Sial v. Karam Chand Thapar, (1995) 6 SCC 166.Royalty, is not a tax. Simply because the royalty is levied by reference to the quantity of the minerals produced and the impugned cess too is quantified by taking into consideration the same quantity of the mineral produced, the latter does no...
University
University, an association of learners, and of teachers and examiners of the learners, upon whose report the association grants upon whose report the association grants titles called 'degrees' (such as 'Master of Arts,' 'Doctor of Divinity'), showing that the holders have attained some definite proficiency.The English Universities are those of Oxford, Cambridge (incorporated by 13 Eliz. c. 29, by the two names of the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, with the direction that they shall be called and named by none other name for evermore), Durham, London, Victoria of Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, and East Midland University Nottingham, the graduates of which (see University of Liverpool Act, 1904; (English) University of Leeds Act, 1904; and (English) Sheffield University Act, 1914) have equal statutory privileges and exemptions; and Reading University (see 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 25). There is also the Uni...
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