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Cabinet

Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 70. The executive and legislative powers are vested in cabinet which is individually and collectively responsible to Parliament. Cabinet functions as long as … Cabinet, is an inner body within the Council of Ministers which is responsible for formulating the policy of the Government. The Council of Ministers is collectively

Magna Carta

complying with their demands. Accordingly, the famous meadow called Runingmede, or Runemede (from the Saxon word rune, signifying council), situated on the southwest bank of the Thames, between Staines and Windsor, in Surrey, was selected for the … the sovereigns of England, for the purpose of fixing the Great Charter as the broad basis of our legislation, and the material guarantee of the freedom of political opinion, and of vindicating the right of publicly discussing

Rate

Ltd., AIR 1968 SC 1504: (1968) 3 SCR 481. The word 'rate' had acquired a special meaning in legislative practice, Shri Prithvi Cotton Mills Ltd. v. Broach Borough Municipality, AIR 1970 SC 192: (1969) 2 SCC 283: … s. 229. The rating areas are either urban or rural. The rating authority in each area is the council of the county borough, burough or urban district having jurisdiction over the area; in rural rating areas the

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Condition of service

service of public servants. It is also well settled that it is not possible by means of any legislative provision or rule to take away the guarantee provided by Article 311 (1) of the Constitution which lays … is a matter which falls within 'conditions of service' of public servants. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in North West Frontier Province v. Suraj Narain Anand, (1948) LR 75 IA 343, took the view that

Regulation

the power to make regulations for the peace, progress and good government of Union Territories. But when a legislative Assembly is set up in any of the Union Territories, this power of the President ceases to exist … Entry 54; Mines and Minerals (Regulation and Development) Act, 1957, s. 2] Means the regulations made by the council under s. 40. [Maharashtra State Council for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(r)] The expression 'regulation'

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