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Rehabilitation

aimed at enabling persons with disabilities to reach and maintain their optimal physical, sensory, intellectual, psychiatric or social functional levels. [Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s.

Reason to believe

or within the restraints of the statute as an alternative safeguard to rules of natural justice where the function is administrative, Nakkuda Ali v. Jayarotus, (1951) AC 66; Ridge v. Baldwin, (1964) AC 40 (73); Re Barium

Quorum

as part of its power to devise its day-today procedure. Quorum does not apply to bodies doing judicial function. Quorum is fixed for meetings of committees and not for the sittings of courts, Punjab University v. Vijay

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Police reforms

Police reforms, is to secure professional indepen-dence for the police to function truly and efficiently as an impartial agent of the law of the land and, at the same time,

Perinde valere

valere, a dispensation granted to a clerk, who, being defective in capacity for a benefice or other ecclesiastical function, is, de facto, admitted to it, Gibs. 87; 25 Hen. 8, c. 21.

Peers of fees

of the same lord, who were obliged to serve and attend him in his courts, being equal in function; these were termed peers of fees because holding fees of the lord, or because their business in court

Parole

citizen. It is also an act of grace and not a matter of right. It is an executive function on Humanitarian Consideration, Ramesh v. State of Rajasthan, (1992) 1 Western Law Cases 284. Historically, 'parole' is a

Parliament

Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha; each of its branches has peculiar powers in connection with their joint legislative function, Constitution of India, Art. 79, Parlia-mentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997. Parliament, has power to amend Constitution.

Claim for judicial review

enactment; or (2) a decision, action or failure to act in relation to the exercise of a public function Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 4) Rules, 2000, 54.1 (2) UK, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 1(1), para 159,

act

take action 2 : to discharge the duties of a specified office or post : perform a specified function used with a prepositional phrase [declaring what officer shall then as President "U.S. Constitution art. II"] 3 :

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