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authority
authority pl: -ties 1 : an official decision of a court used esp. as a precedent 2 a : a power to act esp. over others that derives from status, position, or office [the of the president] ;also : jurisdiction b : the power to act that is officially or formally granted (as by statute, corporate bylaw, or court order) [within the scope of the treasurer's ] [police officers executing a warrant…are not required to “knock and announce” their and purposes before entering "National Law Journal"] c : power and capacity to act granted by someone in a position of control ;specif : the power to act granted by a principal to his or her agent actual authority : the authority that a principal in reality has granted to an agent actual express authority : the actual authority of an agent specifically stated or written by the principal actual implied authority : the actual authority of an agent that the principal has not specified but has purposely or through negligence a...
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement 'to enter upon the enquiry in question, M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697.Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally, as where a Court has a quorum, or as to amount, or as to the character of the questions to be determined.By 'jurisdiction' is meant the extent of the power which is conferred upon the court by its constitu-tion to try a proceedings, Raja Soap Factory v. S.P. Shantharaj, AIR 1965 SC 1449 (1451): (1965) 2 SCR 800.The word 'jurisdiction' is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally means the entitle-ment 'to enter upon the enquiry in question'. If there was an entitlement to enter upon an enquiry, ...
Authority of law
Authority of law, the expression 'authority of law' refers to a valid law which means the tax proposed to be levied must be within the legislative competence of the legislature imposing the tax; and the law must be validly enacted; the law must not be a colorable use of or a fraud upon the legislative power to tax; the law must not violate the conditions of fundamental right as that in Article 19(1)(a) or 19(1)(g); it must not also contravene the specific provisions of the Constitution which impose limitation on legislative power relating to particular metters like Articles 276 to 286 or 301 and; the tax must be authorised by such valid law, Saurashtra Coment and Chemical Industries v. Union of India, AIR 2001 SC 8 (16): (2001) 1 SCC 91. (Constitution of India, Art. 2)...
Save with the authority of law and except by authority law
Save with the authority of law and except by authority law, there is no distinction between the expression, 'save with the authority of law' in art. 31(1) and the expression 'except by authority of law' in art. 265. Laws under art. 31(1) must lay down a procedure containing reasonable restric-tions. Law under art. 265 also lays down a pro-cedure. Therefore, there is no difference between the expression 'except according to procedure established by law' in art. 21 and the expression save with the authority of law' in art. 31(1) or the expression 'except by authority of law' in art. 265, Additional District Magistrate v. Shivakant Shukla, AIR 1976 SC 1207: (1976) 2 SCC 521: (1976) Supp SCR 172. (Constitution of India, Art. 21)...
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 called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering essential services or, with the control and management of civil services, within a specified local area. [Disaster Management Act, 2005, s. 2(h)]It is the political subdivision functioning within the framework of constitution and enjoying certain degree of autonomy serving as administrative units 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 for the time being in force. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(e)]Means a municipal corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, District Panchayat, Taluka Pa...
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Defect of jurisdiction
Defect of jurisdiction, where the expression as a whole reads 'from defect of jurisdiction or other cause of a like nature, is unable to entertain it', the expression 'cause of a like nature' will have to be read ejusdem generis with the expression 'defect of jurisdiction', Zafar Khan v. Board of Revenue, 1984 (Supp) SCC 505: AIR 1985 SC 39: (1985) 1 SCR 287. (Limitation Act, 1963, s. 14)...
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