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Corrupt practices
Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 70), ss. 2, 1 (5); (English) Local Government Acts, 1888 (s. 75) and 1894 (s. 48); (English) Representation of the People Act, 1918, ss. 34, 35, … Practices) Act,1911, makes it an illegal practice to publish certain false statements concerning a candidate. See also (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 79 et seq. Corrupt practices at parliamentary elections
Parish Council
Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish … the inhabitants of the parish or any part thereof; see the 1933 Act, Sch. III, Part IV. The Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 25), transferred the duties of the parish council in
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 … 1 SCR 129. (ii) The Minister is a 'public servant'. In accordance with the instructions issued by the Government he was to preside over the meetings of the Advisory Committee. He was doing so as a Minister
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Establishment
State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or aided by the government or a local authority or a Government company as defined in s. 617 of the Companies Act 1956 and includes Departments
Boundaries
Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50). See s. 250 (2) (Now repealed), see infra. The Local Government Boundaries Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 61), constituted a Commission to inquire into the best mode … Commission to inquire into the best mode of so adjusting the boundaries of counties and other areas of local government as to arrange that no poor law union, municipal borough, sanitary district, or parish should be situate in
Public authority
HL(NI) (in re:), (2004) 1 WLR 1289.Is a body, not necessarily a country council, municipal corporation or other local authority, which has public or statutory duties to perform and which perform those duties and carries out its … body established or con-stituted,-- (i) by or under the Constitution; (ii) by any law made by the appropriate Government, and includes any other body owned, controlled or substantially financed by funds provided directly or indirectly by the
corporation
status (as by a charter) by a superior governing authority (as a state) and endowed with powers of local self-government (as eminent domain) ;broadly : a public corporation (as a utility) created to act as an agency
Peace, Clerk of the
Property Act, 1858, and is clerk of the County Council by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. See also (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 45). He … the County Council by virtue of s. 83 of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888. See also (English) Local Government Clerks Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5. c. 45). He may be removed for misbehaviour in his
Vestry, or vestiary
are now exercised by borough and urban district councils under orders of the Ministry of Health: see (English) Local Government act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), and Local Govt. Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, … meetings and right to be present and vote, see the (English) Vestries Acts, 1818 to 1853, and the Local Government Act, 1933, and see also RATES. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Vestry'; Steer's Parish Law: and Prideaux's Law of
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 are … 25; and the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 246, 247. These have been repealed and the (English) Local Government Act, 1933, ss. 219 et seq. Now govern the subject. The Court can, however, review the auditor's findings
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