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Public stores. By the (English) Public Stores Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 25), various provisions are made for the protection of public stores and the punishment of persons improperly obtaining the same or obliterating the marks thereon, and see Army and Air Force Acts....
Broad-arrow
Broad-arrow, use as a Government mark, is thought to have had a Celtic origin; and the so-called arrow may be the ' or ', the broad a of the Druids. This letter was typical of superiority either in rank and authority, intellect, or holiness; and is believed to have stood also for king or prince. Public stores are marked with the Broad Arrow. See (English) Public Stores Act, 1875....
Metals, dealers in old
Metals, dealers in old, defined as any person dealing in, buying, and selling old metal, scrap metal, broken metal, or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods, and whether such person deals in such Articles only, or together with second-hand goods or marine stores, and the term 'old metals' means the said Articles. See (English) Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c.110), relating to their trade requiring registration, and giving powers of visitation and search to the police; s. 13 of the (English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 112), by which any dealer in old metals who purchases any lead, copper, brass, tin, pewter, or German-silver in any quantity at one time less than 112 lb. in the case of lead, or than 56 lb. in the case of the other metals above mentioned, is guilty of an offence against the Act, and liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. See also (English) Public Stores Act, 1875, ss. 9, 10, and 11 and Public Health Amendment Act,...
British museum
British museum, founded in 1752, under the will of Sir Hans Sloane and 25 Geo. 2, c. 22. The museum is governed by a body of trustees' of whom three, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons, are ex-officio trustees. The museum is entitled to a copy of every book published in the United Kingdom by s. 15 of the Copyright Act, 1911, but certain classes of publications, e.g., trade advertisements, registers of voters, specifications of Patents, time tables, calendars, etc., may be excepted; see British Museum Act, 1932. The trustees are authorized to store newspapers at 'the Hendon building' by the British Museum Act, 1902, and to lend objects for public exhibition by 14 & 15 Geo. 5, c. 23. In Martin v. British Museum Trustees, (1894) 10 TLR 338, the plaintiff failed to recover for a libel in a pamphlet bought by the defendants and placed in the library for public use....
Consumer
Consumer, 'consumer' would include 'any person who consumes electrical energy supplied by a person who generates electrical energy for his own consumption', Jiyajee Rao Cotton Mills Ltd. v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 414: (1962) Supp 1 SCR 282.The definition of the word 'consumer' shows that it would include a person who consumes energy generated by himself. The proposition that in the matter of the levy of electricity tax the Court should differentiate between cases wherein the energy consumed has been generated by someone other than the consumer and those wherein such energy has been generated by the consumer himself cannot, therefore, be countenanced, State of Mysore v. West Coast Papers Mills Ltd., (1975) 3 SCC 448: AIR 1975 SC 5: (1975) 2 SCR 127.The word 'consumer' is a comprehensive expression. It extends from a person who buys any commodity to consume either as eatable or otherwise from a shop, business house, corporation, store, fair price shop to use of private or p...
treasury
treasury pl: -sur·ies 1 a : a place in which stores of wealth are kept b : the place of deposit and disbursement of collected funds ;esp : one where public revenues are deposited, kept, and disbursed c : funds kept in such a depository 2 cap a : a governmental department in charge of finances and esp. the collection, management, and expenditure of public revenues b : the building in which the business of such a governmental department is transacted 3 cap : a government security (as a note or bill) issued by the Treasury ...
Freedom of information
Freedom of information, means the right to obtain information from any public authority by means of:(i) inspection, taking of extracts and notes;(ii) certified copies of any records of such public authority;(iii) diskettes, floppies or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. [Freedom of Information Act, 2002 (5 of 2003), s. 2(c)]...
Treasury
Treasury, includes a sub-treasury. [Bihar Reorganis-ation Act, 2000, s. 2(l)]Treasury. (1) The place where treasure is deposited. (2) The department of state which manages the Public Revenue. The Lord High Treasurer is properly the head of this department; but, in practice, the functions of this great official are discharged by several commissioners. The chief of these is called First Lord; and he is, by custom, the head of the Cabinet (see CABINET COUNCIL), and of the whole executive, for which he is responsible in every department. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the second commissioner, and there are three others. There are also three secretaries to the Treasury.A place or building in which stores of wealth are kept, esp., a place where public revenues are deposited and kept and from which money is disbursed to defray government expenses, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn...
Escalator
A stairway or incline arranged like an endless belt so that the steps or treads ascend or descend continuously and one stepping upon it is carried up or down originally a trade term which has become the generic name for such devices Such devices are in common use in large retail establishments such as department stores and in public buildings having a heavy traffic of persons between adjacent floors...
Dairy
Dairy.--By the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, s. 13--The expression 'dairy' includes any farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for the purposes of sale within (unless otherwise expressed) the district of the local authority:By the same Act dairymen must furnish (s. 53) a list of their sources of supply, and notify (s. 54) when any infectious disease exists among their servants.As to the power of the Ministers of Health and Agriculture and Fisheries to make orders for the registration of dairymen and regulations for carrying on their trade, see the (English) Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, and the (English) Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, as amended by the (English) Milk Act, 1934, amending and consolidating the general law on the subject of dairies and the milk trade. See also (English) Sale of Goods (Weights and Measures) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 63) and the (Engl...
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