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Municipal borough

Municipal borough, 'Municipal borough' in s. 310-A(10) of the Panchayats Act would have the meaning of the word 'City',

Workhouses

Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of poor persons. See (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5,

Office of profit

cannot be an office of profit, Pakanti Sudarshan Reddy v. District Collector, AIR 1964 AP 421. [Hyderabad District Municipalities Act, 1956 (18 of 1956), s. 27(1)(c)] A medical practitioner working as a panel doctor appointed under the Employees' … of profit' under the State Government, Madhukar G.E. Pankakar v. Jaswant Chobbildas Rajani, AIR 1976 SC 2283. [Maharashtra Municipalities Act, 1965, s. 16(1)(g)] A stamp vendor, who does not get any such fixed remuneration but gets only a

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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 … 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

Municipal corporation

Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding … Municipal corporation. A body of persons in a town having the powers of acting as one person, of holding and transmitting property, and of regulating the government of the town. Such corporations

Charitable purpose

public utility. The advancement of any other object of general public utility is not found under the Delhi Municipal Corporation Act. In other words, the definition is narrower in scope, Municipal Corpn. of Delhi v. Children Book

Unauthorised occupation

of 1971), s. 2 (g)] The expression 'unauthorised occupation' is explain-ed in s. 437A of the Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949 in relation to any person authorised to occupy any municipal premises to include the continuance

Corrupt practices

Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883 (46 & 47 Vict. c. 51), ss. 1-3, 33 (7); (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882; (English) Municipal Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Practices) Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 70),

Boundaries

c. 46), and the Representation of the People Act,1918 (7 & 8Geo. 5, c. 64). The boundaries of municipal boroughs, as fixed under the repealed Municipal Corporations Acts, 1835 and 1836 (5 & 6 Wm. 4, c.

Stipendiary Magistrates

Stipendiary Magistrates, paid magistrates ap-pointed in the Metropolis under the (English) Metropolitan Police Courts Act, 1839; in municipal boroughs, on petition by the council to the Secretary of State, under the (English) Municipal Corporations Act, 1882,

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