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Quota, the proportion of a contribution. See, e.g., (English) Militia Act, 1882, s. 37; (English) Land Tax Act, 1797, s. 2.Under the (English) Cinematograph Films Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 29), the proportion in length of British films which renters and exhibitors respectively are obliged to include in any one year up to the end of March, 1938, for renting or exhibiting films in that year. In 1937 and 1938 the proportion in either case is 20 per cent. in coal mines, district schemes under Coal Mines Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 34), as amended, e.g., by S. R. & O., 1934, Nos. 677 and 766; and 1935, Nos. 696 and 697; the proportion of the standard tonnage which each of the coal mines in the district is to be allowed to produce under the scheme as provided by s. 3, ibid.; and see the (English) Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5,c. 24), s. 3, as to quota payments.Quota attaches to the owner of a business at the point of time the quota is granted. It is the business at the relevant time ...
quota
quota [Medieval Latin, from Latin quota pars how great a part] 1 : a proportional part or share assigned to each in a body 2 : a specific amount that serves as a minimum or maximum [a law against traffic ticket s] ...
Direct sales quota
Direct sales quota, which is the quantity of dairy produce which may be sold by direct sale from a holding in a quota year without the seller being liable to pay levy, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 748, p. 453....
Quotas
Quotas, is for the purpose of informing the licensing authority that a particular person has been recognised as an established importer for import of certain things. Thereafter, it is for the licensing authority to issue a licence to the quota-holder in accordance with the licensing policy for the half-year with which the licence deals, Joint Chief Controller of Imports and Exports, Madras v. Amichand Mutha, AIR 1966 SC 478....
Pactum de quota litis
Pactum de quota litis, an agreement by which a creditor promised to pay a portion of a debt difficult to recover, to a person who undertook to recover it, Civ. Law....
Cinematograph
Cinematograph, more properly cinematograph. A contrivance for projecting in rapid succession on a screen a series of instantaneous photographs so as to give the effect of motion (The Concise Oxford Dict.). The (English) Cinematograph Act, 1909, provides that an exhibition of pictures or other optical effects by means of a cinematograph or other similar appartus for the purpose of which inflammable films are used shall not be given unless the regulations made by the Home Secretary are complied with, or elsewhere that in premises licensed under the Act (s. 1). The Act does not apply, however, to exhibitions in private houses to which the public are not admitted [s. 7 (4)]. The exhibition of films by dealers or their agents to intending purchasers or hirers does not amount to an exhibition within the meaning of the Act, Attorney-General v. Vitagraph Co., 1915 (1) Ch 206. Sunday exhibitions, see (English) Sunday Entertainments Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 1 The Celluloid and (Engl...
Wheat
Wheat. See CORN; QUOTA. The (English) Wheat Act, 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 24), was passed to secure to registered growers of wheat grown in the United Kingdom a standard price and a market, and to provide payments by millers and importers of flour by reference to a quota of home-grown wheat and to provide for the purchase by the Flour Millers Corporation representing such millers of unsold stocks of such wheat up to 12' per cent. of the anticipated home-grown supply at the fair market price in the locality....
GATT
a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas...
Quota
A proportional part or share the share or proportion assigned to each in a division...
Quotum
Part or proportion quota...
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