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Port authority, means any authority administering a port. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986) s. 2(vii)]...
London, Port of
London, Port of. The administration is provided for by the Port of London (Consolidation) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. clxxiii.); s. 6 enacts:-(1) There shall be a chairman and vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority elected and appointed in manner provided by this Act for the purpose of administering, preserving and improving the Port of London and otherwise for the purposes of this Act, and the several persons who now constitute and shall, from time to time constitute the Port Authority, shall notwithstanding the repeal of enactments effected by this Act, continue and be a body corporate by the name of 'the Port of London Authority, and by that name shall continue to have perpetual succession and a common seal having power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act without licence in mortmain.(2) The several persons who were respectively the chairman, vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority immediately before the passing of this Act, and shall ...
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 whatever name called, for the time being invested by law, for rendering 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 of autonomy serving as administrative units for state services, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 321.Means a municipal corporation, a municipal council, a Nagar Panchayat, an Industrial Township, a Cantonment Board, a Village Panchayat Constituted or Continued under any law for the time being in force. [Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(e)]Means a municipal corporation, Nagar Panchayat, Municipal Council, District Panchayat, Taluka Pa...
Cinque Ports
Cinque Ports [quinque prtus, Lat.], certain anciently enfranchised havens, lying on the coast towards France. In the time of Edward the Confessor there were only there ports, viz., Dover, Sandwich, and Rommey; but in the time of William the Conqueror Hastings and Hythe were added, making five, whence the name Cinque Ports. Winchelsea and Rye were afterwards added by or before the accession of King John, but the old name, though now become inappropriate, was still retained. The (English) Cinque Ports Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 48), abolishes all jurisdiction and authority of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle, in or in relation to the administration of justice in actions, suits, or other civil proceedings at law or in equity, but with a saving (s. 10) of his Admiralty jurisdiction and certain other rights. The office of Lord Warden is still one of great dignity, and is always held by some person of eminence....
Guardian, or Warden, of the Cinque Ports
Guardian, or Warden, of the Cinque Ports, a magistrate who has the jurisdiction of the ports or havens which are called the Cinque Ports. This office was first created amongst us, in imitation of the Roman policy, to strengthen the sea-coasts against enemies, etc., Camd. Brit. 238. See CINQUE PORTS...
Port Health Authority
Port Health Authority. See QUARANTINE...
Sanitary authority
Sanitary authority. The name, under the Public Health Acts prior to the P.H. Act, 1936, of the authorities for the purposes of those Acts. Under the Act of 1936 they are (i) in a county borough, the council of the borough, (ii) in an administrative county, as respects certain matters, the county council, and as respects all other matters, the councils of county districts without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred on such councils, and 'local' authority means the council of a borough; urban district or rural district. 'Urban' or 'rural' authority means the respective council (see RURAL AUTHORITY), 'district' in relation to the local authority of a borough means the borough, and 'parish' in relation to a common parish council acting for two or more grouped parishes means those parishes. As to Port Health Authorities, see QUARANTINE....
Major port
Major port, means a port declared to be a major port by or under any law made by Parliament or any existing law and includes all areas for the time being included within the limits of such port, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 5, p. 213. [Constitution of India, Art. 364(2)(a)]The President is empowered to exclude, restrict or modify the laws made by Parliament or a State Legislature or the existing laws in their application to major ports, Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. 5, p. 203, Constitution of India, Art. 364....
Customs of the port
Customs of the port, there are usages in many sea-ports, generally known as customs of the port, which have been frequently established in litiga-tion, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 12(1), para 692, p. 243...
Port
Port, a place for the lading or unlading of ships, created by royal charter or lawful prescription. See Foreman v. Free Fishers and Dredgers of Whitstable, (1869) LR 4 HL, at p. 285. Portus est locus in quo exportantur et importantur merces. 2 Inst. 148.(A port is a place -where goods are exported an imported.) See LONDON, PORT OF; HAVENS; and 1 Br. & Had. Com. 314, and 2 Steph. Com., and HARBOUR....
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