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Passport

Passport, a licence for the safe passage of anyone from one place to another, or from one country to another. Passports are issued by the Foreign Office to British-born subjects or to those naturalised in the United Kingdom, British Dominions, Colonies or India, subject to the recommendation and identification of the applicant by a person holding certain positions, e.g., J.P., barrister, solicitor, physician. Application should be made to the Passport Office, 1, Queen Anne's Gate Buildings, Dartmouth Street, Westminster, London, or 36, Dale Street, Liverpool.A combination to procure from the British Foreign Office a passport taken out in one name but to be used in another is an indictable misdemeanour, R. v. Brailsford and McCulloch, (1905) 2 KB 730. Forgery is a misdemeanour under the (English) Official Secrets Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 86), and obtaining passports by false statements, under the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86).A 'passport' is a documen...


machine readable passport (mrp)

machine readable passport (mrp) A passport which has biographic information entered on the data page according to international specifications. A machine readable passport is required to travel with a visa on the Visa Waiver Program. See the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) to learn more about the requirements. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


passport

passport A document issued by competent authority showing the bearer's origin, identity, and nationality, which is valid for the entry of the bearer into a foreign country. Source: FindLaw ...


cancelled without prejudice

cancelled without prejudice A stamp an embassy or consulate puts on a visa when there is a mistake in the visa or the visa is a duplicate visa (two of the same kind). It does not affect the validity of other visas in the passport. It does not mean that the passport holder will not get another visa. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


machine readable visa (mrv)

machine readable visa (mrv) A visa that contains biometric information about the passport holder. A visa that immigration officers read with special machines when the applicants enter the United States. It gives biographic information about the passport holder and tells the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information on the type of visa. It is also called MRV. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...


Sea pass

A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war to show their nationality a sea letter or passport See Passport...


British citizen

British citizen, does not require leave to enter. However, a British citizen must prove that he has the right of abode by producing either a United Kingdom passport describing him as a British citizen or as a citizen of the United Kingdom and colonies having the right of the abode in the United Kingdom, or a certificate of entitlement duly issued by or on behalf of the Government certifying that he has such a right of abode. A commonwealth citizen who is not a British citizen but has the right of abode, does not require leave to enter, although he must prove such a right by means of a certificate of entitlement duly issued by or on behalf of the Government. Any person other than a British Citizen or a commonwealth citizen having the right of abode requires leave to enter, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 74....


Visa

Visa, a register; the authentication of a passport by a foreign authority....


Ship's papers

Ship's papers, documents required for the manifes-tation of the property of the ship and cargo, etc. See a list of them in Form No. 17, Appx. K, of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1883.They are of two sorts: (1) those required by the law of a particular country, as the certificate of registry, licence, charter-party, bills of lading and of health, required by the law of England to be onboard all British ships; (2) those required by the law of nations to be onboard neutral ships, to vindicate their title to that character; they are the passport, sea-brief, or sea-letter, proofs of property, the muster-roll, or role d'equipage; the charter-party, the bills of lading and invoices, the log-book or ship's journal, and the bill of health, 1 Marshall on Insur., c. 9, s. 6....


Operator

Operator, means a person employed directly or by or through any agency (including a contractor, whether as a regular worker or as a casual worker, with or without the knowledge of the principal employer, whether for remuneration or not, in the operation or cleaning of any dangerous machine or any part thereof or in any other kind of work incidental to, or connected with, the operation or cleaning of any dangerous machine or any part thereof. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3(k)]Operator is defined by s. 2(b) of the Act as amended by Act 4 of 1973 as the owner or the person having possession or control of the vehicle and includes any person whose name is entered in the permit as the holder thereof. This definition is wide enough to include the appellant-company who was owner of the vehicles and on the date of the notice of demand it had further possession and control of the vehicles, Sundaram Finance Ltd. v. Regional Passport Officer, 1992 Supp (2) SCC 436: A...


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