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Small pox. See VACCINATION....
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases. It is an indictable offence to expose in a public frequented highway a person suffering from an infectious disorder, R. v. Vantandillo, (1815) 4 M. & S. 73. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 143 to 180, repealing (from October, 1937) ss. 120-143 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, contains various provisions calculated to prevent the spread of dangerous infectious diseases.Notification.--The (English) Public health Act, 1936, also repeals (from October, 1937) the (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 72), and enjoins the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the district of certain specific diseases therein named, and also of other diseases added to the list by the local authority, s. 343 enacting that 'notifiable disease.'--Means any of the following diseases, namely, small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fe...
Infectious or contagious disease
Infectious or contagious disease, means cholera, leprosy, enteric fever, small-pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, plague influenza venereal disease, and any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be, an infectious or contagious disease for the purposes of this Act. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xvii)]...
Pox
Strictly a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases the smallpox the chicken pox and the vaccine and the venereal diseases...
Smallness of profit
Smallness of profit, the Legislature has deliberately used the expression 'smallness of profit' and not 'smallness of assessable income' and there is noth-ing in the context in which the expression 'small-ness of profit' occurs which justifies equation of the expression 'profit' with 'assessable income.' Smallness of the profit in s. 23A has to be adjudged in the light of commercial principles and not inthe light of total receipts, actual or fictional, Commissioner of Income Tax v. Bipinchandra Maganlal and Co., AIR 1961 SC 1040 (1043): (1961) 2 SCR 493.(ii) The words 'smallness of profit' in the s. 23 of the Income Tax Act, 1922 refer to actual accounting profits in comparison with the assessable profits of the year. In arriving at the assessable profits the Income-tax Officer may disallow many expenses actually incurred by the assessee; and in computing his income, he may include many items on notional basis. But the commercial or accounting profits are the actual profits earned by a...
small business
small business : an independently owned and operated business that is not dominant in its field of operation and conforms to standards set by the Small Business Administration or by state law regarding number of employees and yearly income called also small business concern see also Small Business Administration in the Important Agencies section ...
Industrial concern in small-scale sector
Industrial concern in small-scale sector, 'industrial concern in small-scale sector' means an industrial concern as defined in clause (c) of s. 2 of Industrial Development Bank of India Act, 1964 (18 of 1964), and which is regarded as a small-scale undertaking under s. 11B of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 (65 of 1951). [Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989 (39 of 1989), s. 2(h)]...
Small holdings
Small holdings. The (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908, by s. 61 gives the following definition:-The expression 'small holding' means an agri-cultural holding which exceeds one acre and either does not exceed fifty acres or, if exceeding fifty acres, is at the date of sale or letting of an annual value for the purposes of income tax not exceeding one hundred pounds [as amended by the (English) Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 52), s. 16]....
National small industries corporation
National small industries corporation, means the National Small Industries Corporation Limited registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956). [Small Industries Development Bank of India Act, 1989, s. 2(j)]...
Small holding colonies
Small holding colonies. By the (English) Small Holding Colonies Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 38) and 1918 (8 & 9 Geo. 5, c. 26), as amended by the (English) Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 59), the Board, now Ministry, of Agriculture and Fisheries may, after consultation with the chairman of the county council, acquire by agreement a limited amount of land up to 45,000 acres in England and Wales for the purpose of providing small holding colonies with powers conferred by the Acts.See ALLOTMENTS, and Aggs on Agricultural Holdings....
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