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Consolidation Acts (English). Acts by which several Acts upon the same subject are reduced into one. Of such a character are the Larceny Act, 1861, now largely repealed and replaced by the Larceny Act, 1916, and other Criminal Law Consolidation Acts of 1861, the Public Health Act, 1875, the Municipal Corporations Act, 1882, the Sheriffs Act, 1887, the Arbitration Act, 1889, the Factors Act, 1889, the Lunacy Act, 1890, the Stamp Act, 1891, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, the Friendly Societies Act, 1896, the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, the Coal Mines Act, 1911, the Forgery Act, 1913, the Companies Act,1929, the Poor Law Act, 1930, the Local Government Act, 1933, the County Court Act, 1934.The (English) Interpretation Act, 1889 (see that title), by s. 38(1) enacts that--Where this Act or any Act passed after the commencement of this Act repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed shall...
War Memorial
War Memorial. The (English) War Memorials (Local Authorities Powers) Act, 1923, enables local authorities under certain circumstances to maintain and repair memorials vested in them (English)...
Quarter-rating
Quarter-rating. The rating on only one-fourth part of the net annual value-a privilege enjoyed by owners of railways and other kinds of property under s. 211 of the Public Health Act, 1875. But now as to exemptions, total or otherwise, from rates in the case of agricultural, industrial and freight transport hereditaments, see the Rating and Valuation Acts, 1925 to 1932; Bailey v. Stoke on Trent Assessment Committee, etc., (1931) 1 KB 385. [The Rating and Valuation (Apportionment) Act, 1928, and Local Government Act, 1929, ss. 67-73]...
Venereal disease
Venereal disease. The (English) Venereal Disease Act, 1917, prohibits the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by a duly qualified medical practitioner. Advertisement o cures, treatment, etc., is prohibited except when made to duly qualified medical practitioners or chemists or by public authorities. Venereal disease is defined as meaning syphilis, gonorrh'a, or soft chancre, and see INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Public Health Acts, 1875-1936; Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933. See also SLANDER and CRUELTY. [Referred, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 13(1)(v)]...
Local authority
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...
County Councils
County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are nominated by the Crown) in quarter sessions,and other administrative business mentioned in the Act, and consisting of 'the chairman, aldermen, and councillors.' The (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), consolidates with amendments the enactments relating to local authorities.The councillors are elected, for separate electroal divisions,' the qualification for elctors being that required under the Representation of the People Acts, and the qualification for being elected similar to that required for electionto office onany local authority. Ministers of religion are not disqulaified, and peers owing property in the county and persons registered as parliamentary voters in respect of the ownership of property in the county are qual...
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...
Poor laws
Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...
Pension
Pension, an annual allowance made to any one, usually in consideration of past services.By the (English) Succession to the Crown Act, 1707, (6 Anne, c. 7) (c. 41 in the Revised Statutes), and 1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 56, no person having a pension under the Crown during pleasure, or for any term of years, is capable of being elected or sitting in the House of Commons.Old Age Pension.--The (English) Old Age Pensions Act, 1908, which was not on a contributory basis, gave to every person the right to a pension who fulfilled certain conditions. The Act, with the amending (English) Old Age Pensions Acts, 1911, 1919 and 1924, has been repealed by the (English) Consolidating Old Age Pensions Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8, c. 31). These conditions are contained in s. 2 of the Act of 1936, as follows:-2. The statutory conditions for the receipt of an old age pension by any person are--(1)The person must have attained the age of seventy, or in the case of a blind person, the age of fifty.(2)The p...
Open space
Open space, means it is only with reference to the country that the word 'open' carries the meaning 'free from wood building etc.' Accepting the several meanings of the word 'open' the existence of 7 or 8 scattered trees within the space sixty feet wide all round would not render the entire space any less an open space within the meaning of that expression in the proviso to rule 18(a) of the Madras Places of Public Resort Act II of 1888. It is equally clear that the existence of say one free at one corner of the space would not prevent the space being an open space, Nachimuthu v. Ramaswami Chettiar, 69 MLW 887: (1956) 2 MLJ 556 (DB).By the (English) Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to hold of the use of the public any open spaces within the metropolis. These Acts were extended, with amendments, to ...
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