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held in any electronic form and information relating to any private body which can be accessed by a public authority under any other law for the time being in force. [Right to Information Act, 2005, s. 2(f)] … (1), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Justices.' As to criminal, English, and Latin information, see those titles; also QUO WARRANTO; NUISANCE. Includes data, text, images, sound, voice, codes, computer programmes, software and data bases or micro film or computer

abate

esp. proportionately [ a tax] vi 1 : to become defeated or become null or void [when a public officer is a party to an appeal…in an official capacity and during its pendency dies…the action does not … battre to beat] vt 1 a : to put an end to or do away with [ a nuisance] b : make void : nullify [ an action] 2 : to reduce in amount esp. proportionately [

Prerogative of mercy

savours more of the nature of a private injury to each individual in the neighbourhood than of a public wrong. The King cannot pardon some offences against a popular or penal statute, after information brought: 3 Inst. … of Ashford v. Thornton, (1818) 1 B&A 405. Blackstone observes that the King could not pardon a common nuisance while it remains unredressed, or so as to prevent an abatement of it; though afterwards he might remit

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Fireworks

Explosives Act, 1923). Any person throwing, casting, or firing any fireworks in or into any highway, street, or public place is liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. (s. 80 of the Act of 1875). And see … selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about in the street, was declared to be a common nuisance by the repealed 9 Wm. 3, c. 7. See also (English) Metropolis Police Act (2 & 3 Vict.

By-laws, or bye-laws

Clauses Act, 1847, ss. 126, 200; and (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, ss. 68, 71. The (English) Public Health Act, 1875, by ss. 182-6, regulated the making of by-laws under that Act, and these sections were … part of the county or borough, as the case may be, and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances; Provided that by-laws made under this section by a County Council shall not have effect in any borough.

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