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Open space
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 … trustees of land held upon trust for the purposes of public recreation to transfer it to the local authorities of their districts for those purposes. The (English) Open Spaces Act, 1906, consolidates these four Acts (see Chitty's
Sanitary authority
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Public servant
the Penal Code, which runs as follows: Twelfth. - Every officer in the service or pay of a local authority or of a corporation engaged in any trade or industry which is established by a Central Provincial or … for the performance of any public duty by the Government; (b) in the service or pay of a local authority, a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act or a Government company as defined
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Quarantine, or Quarentaine
of the district of any riparian authority specified in the Order with any functions, rights, liabilities of a local authority under that or any unrepealed enactment contained in the (English) Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1932 (s. 3);
Electric lighting
(English) 1882 Act an undertaking autho-rized by provisional order or special Act may be purchased compulsorily by the local authority within six months after the expiration of 21 years--a period extended to 42 years by the (English) Electric … on application for licenses and pro-visional orders; and the rules now in force provide (inter alia) that a local authority is to have a preference over private contractors. By s. 6 the Board may insert in a license
Children
under that Act, which prohibits (s. 20) the employment in 'street trading' of a child under sixteen. A local authority may make bye-laws respecting the employment of children under fourteen (s. 18), and as to street trading under … person undertaking (s. 1) for reward the nursing or maintenance of an infant must give notice to the local authority, and provision is made (s. 2) for the appointment of inspectors and visitors. An insurance policy (s. 7)
Audit
when there has been no negligence, it is common for the surcharge to be remitted [see, e.g., (English) Local Government Act, 18 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 230], especially where the party whose accounts … debit his employer with payments not in fact made. An administrative audit is a comparison of payments with authorities to pay, in order that the party whose accounts are audited may not debit his employer with payments
Magna Carta
chapters relate to the making of bridges and defending of river-banks, a subject which now forms part of local law. The 17th chapter enacts that:-'No sheriff constable, escheator, coroner, nor any other our bailiffs, shall hold pleas … It has, however, from time to time been necessary and expedient to give to justices and local magistrates jurisdiction to a limited extent in dealing with crimes and quasi criminal matters. This jurisdiction is of two kinds:-(1)
Person interested
s. 2(t)] The definition of the 'person interested' must be liberally construed so as to include a body, local authority, or a company for whose benefit the land is acquired and who is bound under an agreement to … Chagan Lal v. Astor Quisth, AIR 1972 AP 49: (1971) 2 Andh WR 347. Means the beneficiary i.e. local, authority or company, a co-operative society registered under the relevant state law, or statutory authority is a person interested
Toll
Act, 1933, s. 40] The expression 'toll' normally means a definite payment exacted by the State or the local authority; by virtue of sovereignty or lordship, or in return for protection; more especially, for permission to pass somewhere, … long distance telephone call, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. It means the amount which the government, or a local authority or a person duly authorised by the government may collect for passage of carriages and vehicles over a
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