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Active politics

Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4(2) Means service or duty--(a) during the period of operation of a proclamation of emergency issued under clause (1) of article 352 of the constitution; or (b) during any period declared

Ban, or Bann

Ban, or Bann [Teut.], a proclamation or public notice, or summons or edict, whereby a thing is commanded or forbidden. It is most especially

Business day

other than (a) Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, (b) a bank holiday, (c) a day appointed by royal proclamation as a public fast or thanksgiving, is a business day. Business day means any day other than a

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Champion of the King (or Queen)

ride armed cap-a-pie into Westminster Hall at the coronation, while the king was at dinner, and by the proclamation of a herald, make a challenge, 'that if any man shall deny the King's title to the crown,

Coin

c. 29), made a return to the Gold Standard, but the Gold Standard is now suspended until by Proclamation directed otherwise, see (English) Gold Standard (Amendment) Act, 1931 (21 & 22 Geo. 5, c. 46). See TENDER

Cryer

Cryer, an officer of a court, whose duty it is to make a proclamation. See CRIER.

Election

of Commonwealth, Wilding & Philip Laundry, p. 230. Nominations for elections are received upto eighth day after the proclamation. Poll is held on the ninth day of nomination period. Election is held by secret ballot, Parliamentary Dictionary,

Exigenter

Exigenter [fr. exigendarius, Lat.], an officer of the Court of Common Pleas, who makes all exigents, proclamations, etc., Cowel.

Gazette

to the London Gazette. It is published on Tuesdays and Fridays, and contains all the acts of state, proclamations, and appointments to offices under the Crown; also all Orders in Council, and such other Orders, Rules, and

King's printer

by the Queen's printers, and all copies of the journals of either House of Parliament, and of royal proclamations purporting to be printed by the printers to the Crown, or by the printers to either House of

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