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special district : a political subdivision of a state established to provide a single public service (as water supply or sanitation) within a specific geographical area ...
District Registry
District Registry. By the (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 84, replacing the (English) Judicature Act, 1873, s. 60, it is provided that to facilitate proceedings in country districts the Crown may, from time to time, by Order in Council, create district registries and appoint district registrars for the purpose of issuing writs of summons and for entertaining proceedings generally in an action down to and including entry for trial. Documents sealed in any such district registrary are to be received in evidence without further proof; and the district registrars may administer oaths or do other things as provided by rules or a special order of the Court (s. 62). Power, however, is given to a judge to remove proceedings from a district registry to the Office of the High Court; and see generally, (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 84-87, and Judicature Act, 1873, ss. 74 and 66, which are still unrepealed. By Order in Council of 12th of August, 1875, a number of district registries have ...
gerrymander
gerrymander [Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) + salamander; from the shape of an election district formed during Gerry's governorship of Massachusetts] 1 : the act or method of gerrymandering 2 : a district or pattern of districts varying greatly in size or population as a result of gerrymandering vt -dered -der·ing 1 : to divide (a territorial unit) into election districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible 2 : to divide (an area) into political units to give special advantages to one group [ a school district] ...
Bakehouse
Bakehouse. Any place in which are baked bread, biscuits, or confectionery from the baking or selling of which a profit is derived. ss. 97-102 of the consolidating (English) Factory and Workshop Act, 1901 (1 Edw. 7, c. 22), contain various sanitary provisions for the regulation of bakehouses, as defined above in Part II of Sched. VI of the Act. S. 98 enables a Court of Summary Jurisdiction to fine the occupiers of in sanitary bakehouses and to order them to remove the ground of complaint of an inspector or district council. Limewashing, painting or varnishing are prescribed by s. 99, sleeping-places must be specially constructed as required by s. 100. By s. 101 underground bake-houses may not be used without a district council certificate, and by s. 102 it is for the district council to enforce these provisions as to retail bakehouses....
Improvement of towns
Improvement of towns. The (English) Towns Im-provement Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 34), 'comprises in one Act sundry provisions usually contained in' special Acts of Parliament theretofore passed 'for paving, draining, cleansing, lighting, and improving towns and populous districts,' to avoid the necessity for repeating such provisions in each special Act, and to ensure greater uniformity in the provisions themselves.Of this Act, ss. 64-83, which relate to the naming of streets and numbering of houses, to the improving the line of streets and removal of obstructions, to the securing or demolition of ruinous buildings, and to the taking precaution during the erection of works, and ss. 125-131, which relate to slaughter-houses, are incorporated with the (English) Public health Act, 1875, by ss. 160, 169 of that Act.The Town and Country Planning Act, 1932 (English) (22 & 23 Geo. 5, c. 48), a codifying Act, repealing the (English) Town and Country Planning Act, 1925, authorises loc...
Rate
Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a parish or other area.Proportional or relative value; the proportion of which quantity or value is adjusted, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1268.The term 'rate' is also used to mean a charge by a water, gas, railway, or other public undertaking for services rendered e.g., (English) Railways Act, 1921, s. 20; Metropolitan Water Board Charges Act, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. xciv.).The poor rate was levied under the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. s. 2), on the occupiers in each parish of 'lands, houses, tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to any right of common; (2) rights of fowling, shooting, taking, or killing game, or ra...
Rural Authority
Rural Authority. Under the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 1, means the council of a rural district, provided that where a direction such as is mentioned in the Local Government Act, 1933, s. 42 (2) is in force; a reference to a rural authority in the P.H. Act shall be construed as a reference to the council temporarily administering the affairs of the district. So far as a rural district council is a council of a county district, it is an authority invested with the duty of carrying the P.H. Act into execution as provided by the Act without prejudice to the exercise by a parish council of any powers conferred upon such councils. Under s. 12, ibid., rural districts may constitute special purpose areas for charging exclusively sewage, water, or drainage expenses, and see s. 309, ibid., as to such expenses. Section 13 enables the Minister of health to invest any rural district or any contributory place therein with urban powers. See WATCHING AND LIGHTING....
Collector
Collector, means the chief officer in charge of the revenue-administration of a district and includes any officer whom the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette may, by name or in virtue of his office, appoint to be a Collector in any local area or with respect to any class of persons, for all or any of the purposes of this Act. [Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 (8 of 1890), s. 4 (6)]Means the Collector having jurisdiction over the area in which the accident occurs. [Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 (6 of 1991), s. 2 (b)]The expression means the Collector of a district, and includes a Deputy Commissioner and any officer specially appointed by the [appropriate Government] to perform the functions of a Collector under this Act. [Land Acquisition Act, 1894 (10 of 1894), s. 3 (c)]Collector,--(a) means, within the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, the Collector of Calcutta, madras and Bombay, respectively, and, without those limits, the Collector of a ...
district
district : a territorial division (as of a nation, state, county, or city) for administrative, judicial, electoral, or other purposes: as a : an administrative unit esp. of a town or city established for the performance of a special governmental function [the water ] [park ] b : congressional district c : one of the divisions of the United States or of the individual states served by a particular federal or state court see also the Judicial System in the back matter ...
office
office 1 : a special duty, charge, or position conferred by governmental authority and for a public purpose [qualified to hold public ] ;broadly : a special duty or position of authority [hold an of trust] 2 : a place where business or administration is conducted or services are performed 3 : a special administrative department or unit [ of the district attorney] ...
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