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Working journalist

2 SCC 1: (1970) 1 SCR 181. [Working Journalists and other Newspaper Employees (Conditions of Service and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1955, s. 2(f)] Working journalist, means a person whose principal avocation is that of a journalist and

Winding-up

usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In

Shall

obligatory. Nevertheless, the word 'shall' need not be given that connotation in each and every case and the provisions can be interpreted as directory instead of mandatory depending upon the purpose which the legislature intended to achieve

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Seamen

and 1906 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60, and 6 Edw. 7, c. 48), contain numerous and elaborate provisions. In Part II. of the Act of 1894 there are regulations as to engagement and discharge of seamen,

Repeal

s. 38 of the same Act, where any Act passed after January 1st, 1890, repeals and re-enacts any provisions of a former Act, references in any other Act to the provisions so repealed are to be construed

Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845

Vict. c. 20), and Railways Clauses Act, 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 92). These Acts contain general provisions as to the construction and management of railways, and were passed for the purposes of (1) avoiding the

Non-obstante

in such statute. A non-obstante clause is a legislative device usually employed to give overriding effect to certain provisions over some contrary provisions that may be found either in the same enactment or some other enactment, that

Local Government

local authorities in England and Wales. The Act as a whole does not apply to London, except certain provisions of Part III., Part X., Part XI. Schedule I. contains a list of administrative counties, county boroughs, and

Lights of vehicles

Conditions regulating the use of lamps on vehicles. S. 4. Restrictions on movement of lamps. S. 5. Special provisions as to bicycles and tricycles. S. 6. Horse-drawn vehicles. S. 7. Vehicles carrying overhanging or projecting loads. S.

Factory

handicraft, in such manner that those parts constitute in law separate factories; and for the purpose of the provisions of this Act with respect to tenement factories, all buildings situate within the same close or curtilage shall

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