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Noise sensitive structures

Noise sensitive structures, means structures that require a quiet environment such as hospital, schools, government offices, research institutions and residential buildings, Noise Pollution (V), (In re:) (2005) 5 SCC 733....


Sensitivity

The quality or state of being sensitive used chiefly in science and the arts as the sensitivity of iodized silver...


Sensitize

To render sensitive or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun as sensitized paper or plate...


Noise emission

Noise emission, means emission of noise from the source to the living environment of the neighbourhood, Noise Pollution (V), (In re:), (2005) 5 SCC 733....


light sensitive

Affected by light as the light sensitive pigments in the retina...


Sensitive

Having sense of feeling possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects as a sensitive soul...


Sensitizer

An agent that sensitizes...


Doctrine of basic structure

Doctrine of basic structure, the doctrine of 'a basic structure' was nothing more than a set of obvious inferences relating to the intents of the Constitution-makers arrived at by applying the established canons of construction rather broadly, as they should be so far as an organic constitutional document, meant to govern the fate of a nation, is concerned. But, in every case where reliance is placed upon it, in the course of an attack upon legislation, whether ordinary or constituent (in the sense that it is an amendment of the Constitution), what is put forward as part of 'a basic structure' must be justified by references to the express provisions of the Constitution. That structure does not exist in vacuo. Inferences from it must be shown to be embedded in and to flow logically and naturally from the bases of that structure. In other words, it must be related to the provisions of the Constitution and to the manner in which they could indubitably be presumed to naturally and reasona...


Structure

Structure, the structure must be an entity in itself, although not necessarily a building in itself, adopted to the particular purpose it serves. In its ordinary sense a structure is something which is constructed by way of being built as is a building but method of construction by itself is not conclusive. Structure by itself may not be a building but it may be analogous to a buildings, outhouse, shed, hut or a stable, Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. Indian Oil Corporation, AIR 1991 SC 686 (692): 1991 Supp (2) SCC 18. [Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, 1888, s. 3(s)]...


Dangerous structure

Dangerous structure. By s. 75 of the (English) Towns Improvements Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), which is incorporated (see s. 160) (English) in the Public Health Act,1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), any building deemed by the surveyor to be in a ruinous or dangerous state must be pulled down, repaired, or otherwise made secure. This provision is not confined to buildings, etc., adjacent to a highway; see L.C.C. v. Herring, (1894) 2 QB 522, a case decided under the (English) Metropolitan Building Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 122). See also the London Building Act, 1930 (c. clviii.), ss. 128 et seq, and (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 58, enabling a local authority to apply to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for an order to the owner to repair or demolish the structure, and upon failure by the owner the local authority may do the work and shore it up or fence it off; see also Housing Act, 1936....


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