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sponsor

sponsor 1 : a legislator who introduces and supports a legislative proposal (as a bill or amendment) 2 : a person who assumes

veto

power vested in a chief executive to prevent permanently or temporarily the enactment of measures passed by a legislature b : the exercise of such authority see also pocket veto compare legislative veto vt ve·toed ve·to·ing :

Act of Parliament

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

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Australia, Commonwealth of.

its Parliament, consisting of the Sovereign of the British Empire, a Senate, and a House of Representatives, to legislate for the whole of Australia. The legislative powers of the Parliament, which may be found under 39 heads

fact

law, opinion adjudicative fact : a fact particularly related to the parties to an esp. administrative proceeding compare legislative fact in this entry collateral fact : a fact that has no direct relation to or immediate bearing

Chairman

is defined as a name given to a Presiding Officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine's Law Dictionary,

Public man

Public man, a public man clearly includes the Chief Minister or any other Minister of State Legislative Assembly or Legislative Assembly and excludes a Government Servant, M. Karunanidhi v. Union of India, AIR 1979 SC

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

Westminster, Statute of, 1931

to any law made by the Parliament of a Dominion. S. 3. Power of Parliament of Dominion to legislate extra-territorially. S. 4. Parliament of United Kingdom not to legislate for 'Dominion' except by consent. S. 5. Powers

Until other provision is made

of the 1969 Act is a temporary and transitional provision which continues until other provision is made. The Legislature does not say until other provision is made because the Legislature is always free to legislate. The words

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