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Finance Acts

Finance Acts. In and after 1894 the Annual Taxing Acts, which had for a long time borne the short titles of 'Customs and Inland Revenue Acts,' have borne the short titles of 'Finance Acts.' The Finance Act incorporates the Budget which is the Chancellor of the Exchequer's annual statement or report of the financial results of the past year, estimated expenditure and income of the coming year and proposals in regard to taxation. These proposals are passed into law by the Finance Act but are enforced as soon as a resolution of the Committee of Ways and Means agrees to them in order to prevent forestalling and anticipation in commodities. See Halsb. L.E., title 'Parliament (Ways and Means).'...


Housing Finance institution

Housing Finance institution, shall have the mean-ing as assigned to it in clause (d) s. 2 of the National Housing Bank Act, 1987 (3 of 1987), Prevention of Money-Laundering Act, 2002, s. 2(m)....


Act of Parliament

Act of Parliament, a law made by the sovereign, with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the Commons, in Parliament assembled (1 Bl. Com. 85); but, in the case of an Act passed under the provisions of the (English) Parliament Act, 1911, a law made by the sovereign 'by and with the advice and consent of the Commons in this present Parliament assembled in accordance with the provisions of the Parliament Act, 1911, and by authority of the same'; also called a 'statute.'Means a bill passed by two Houses of Parliament and assented to by the President and in the absence of an express provision to the contrary, operative from the date of notification in the Gazette, Handbook for Members of Rajya Sabha, April, 2002.Means an action; a thing done or established; a written law formally passed by the legislative power of a State; a Bill enacted by the legislature into a law, as distinguished from a bill which is in the form of draft of a law or legislative proposal pres...


Health and fitness services

Health and fitness services, means service for physical well-being such as, sauna and steam bath, turkish bath, solarium, spas, reducing or slimming salons, gymnasium, yoga, meditation, massage (excluding therapeutic massage) or any other like service, the Finance Act, 2002, s. 78(42)....


Health club and fitness centre

Health club and fitness centre, means any establish-ment, including a hotel or resort, providing health and fitness service. [The Finance Act, 2002, s. 78(43)]...


Corn Tax Abolition Act (English)

Corn Tax Abolition Act (English), 10 & 11 Vict. c. 46. This Act, however, left a duty of 1s. a quarter (measure) remaining-a duty repealed by the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 14), s. 4, reimposed under the guise of 3d. per cwt. By the Finance Act,1902 (2 Edw. 7, c. 7), s. 1, but taken off again by the Finance Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 8) s. 1....


owner financing

owner financing a home purchase where the seller provides all or part of the financing, acting as a lender. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Terrorist act

Terrorist act, has the meaning assigned to it in sub-s. (1) of s. 3, and the expression 'terrorist' shall be construed accordingly. [Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2002 (15 of 2002), s. 2 (g)]...


Service

Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...


Financial Institution

Financial Institution, means a banking company to which the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (10 of 1949) applies (including any bank or banking institution referred to in s. 51 of that Act); or any other financial institution which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this behalf. [Income Tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 80E(3)(b)]Means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956;(ii) such other institution as the Central Government may, having regard to its business activity and the area of its operation in India by notification, specify. [Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Financial Institutions Act, 1993 (51 of 1993), s. 2 (h)]Financial institution means:(i) a public financial institution within the meaning of s. 4A of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956);(ii) any institution specified by the Central Govern-ment under sub-clause (ii) of clause (h) of s. 2 of the Recovery of Debts Due to Banks and Fina...


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