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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...
Local Government
Local Government. That part of the government of the country which, by delegation from the Imperial Government, is conducted the bodies appointed or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL; PARISH COUNCIL; and BOROUGH COUNCIL.Local Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41). The Act established county councils throughout England and Wales, and has been amended and extended by many other Acts.Transfer of Imperial Powers to County Councils.--The (English) Local Government (Transfer of Powers) Act, 1903 (3 Edw. 7, c. 15), though permissive only, extended general, tentative, unsued and almost unknown powers of decentralization which had previously been entrusted to the Local Government Board by the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. The (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 7...
Local area
Local area, 'Local area', in relation to any local cadre, means the local area specified in para 6 for direct recruitment to posts in such local cadre, and includes, in respect of posts belonging to the category of Civil Assistant Surgeons, the local area specified in sub-para (5) of paragraph 8 of this Order', S. Prakasha Rao v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, AIR 1990 SC 997: (1990) 2 SCC 259 (261). [A.P. Employment (Organisation of Local Cadre and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975]It means any area, whether urban or rural, declared by the Central Government or the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a local area for the purposes of this Act. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954), s. 2 (vii)]The words 'local area' in Entry 52 of the Constitution, (when the area is a part of the State imposing the law) in an area administered by a local body like a municipality, a district board, a local board, a union board, a Panchayat or t...
Local land charges
Local land charges. Charges on land acquired at anytime by any local authority, including county, borough or rural district councils under the Public Health Metropolis Management or Private Street Works Act, or under any similar statute (public, general or local or private) passed at any time, must be registered in the local land-charge registry (see (English) Local Land Charges Rules,1927, S.R. & O., 1927, 869/L, 33), as provided by the Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 15, as amended by (English) Law of Property (Amendment) Act, 1926, or they will be void as against a purchaser for money or money's worth of a legal estate in the land affected. The following are included: town planning schemes and resolutions, and restrictions created after 1925 on user of land or buildings, imposed or enforceable by a local authority with some exceptions [see s. 15 (7) (b), ibid.], and this applies to local land charges affecting both registered and unregistered land. As to searches and official certificate...
Local board
Local board. A body of persons established by an order of the Local Government Board, upon a resolution of the owners and ratepayers of a rual district, for the purpose of administering the Public Health and (which see) within such district, which was called a 'local government district' or urban sanitary district, the local board being called an 'urban sanitary authority.' They were elected by open voting of the owners and ratepayers, a property qualification being required for membership, each voter having from one to six votes, in proportion to the property occupied by him; but the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), by s. 23 [see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 35 (3), 39, 40 (1), 57], abolished both the property qualification and the plural voting, and by s. 21 directed that 'urban sanitary authorities' (except the councils of municipal boroughs) should be called 'urban district councils.'...
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health)
Local Government Board (Ministry of Health). This Board was established by the (English) Local Government Board Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 70), which concentrated in one department of the Government 'the supervision of the laws relating to the public health, the relief of the poor, and local government,' and transferred thereto all the powers of the Poor Law Board, all the powers of a Secretary of State as to registration of births, deaths, and marriages, public health, drainage, local government, etc. (as mentioned in scheduled Acts), and all powers of the Privy Council as to prevention of disease, and vaccination (as mentioned in scheduled Acts). The (English) Ministry of Health Act, 1919, s.11, transferred all the powers and duties of the Local Government Board to the Ministry of Health. All references in statutes to the Local Government Board must be read as referring to the Ministry of Health (S. 11, Sched. I.)....
Locality
Locality, the question of notifying the locality might probably arise when all the lands in a village are sought to be acquired. Otherwise the word 'locality' is a word of such indefinite import that it is difficult to conceive of any locality in any particular village being notified for acquisition. Therefore when a locality in the sense of a village or perhaps a group of villages is notified for acquisition any person interested in any land in that locality would be entitled to be heard under s. 5A, Navneet Ram Batra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 2144 (2146): (1975) 2 SCC 727: (1976) 1 SCR 826. [Land Acquisition Act (10 of 1894), s. 5A]...
Local actions
Local actions, those referring to some particular locality, as actions for trespasses to land, in which the venue must have been laid in the county where the cause of action arose.Real actions and the mixed action of ejectment were local: but personal actions were for the most part transitory, i.e., their cause of action might be supposed to take place anywhere, but when they were brought for anything in relation to realty, they were then local, see Mostyn v. Fabrigas, (1775) 1 Smith, L.C., and 2 Chit. Arch. Prac.And see COUNTY COURT (JURISDICTION), and VENUE....
Local cadre
Local cadre, 'Local cadre' means any local cadre of posts under the State Government organised in pursuance of paragraph 3, or constituted otherwise, for any part of the State. S. Prakasha Rao v Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, AIR 1990 SC 997: (1990) 2 SCC 259 (261) [A.P. Employment (Organisation of Local Cadre and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975, R. 2(1)(e)]...
local union
local union : a local branch of a union (as a national or international union) made up of many branches called also local ...
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