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National insurance

1. NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE. The general scheme is the provision of compulsory insurance of all persons of 16 years of age and upwards who are employed either as manual workers, or at a rate of remuneration not

Municipal corporation

The councillors are elected by the burgesses on every 1st of November. Their term of office is three years, and one-third of their number goes out of office every year. If the election be contested the poll

Master and servant

See LABOURERS. Servants are of several descriptions:- 1st Servants in husbandry. These are very generally hired by the year, as from Michaelmas to Michaelmas, and this is an entire hiring for a year; and, unless otherwise stipulated,

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House of Commons

Vict. c. 48, amending 9 Anne, c. 5, by allowing personal property to count fixed at 600l. a year for a county, and 300l. a year for a borough member, was abolished in 1858 by 21 &

Valuation date

Valuation date, in relation to any year for which an assessment is to be made under this Act, means the last day of the previous

Holiday, or Holyday

day with cessation from labour, as by 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, all Sundays in the year and also Christmas-day and other days by that Act commanded 'to be kepte holie dayes and none other.'

Government annuities

on death, the latter Act allowing the purchase of an annuity of any amount not exceeding 100l. a year, the limit under the Act of 1864 having been 50l. a year. At the present time life annuities

Alien

power might hold lands, etc., for the purposes of residence or business for a term not exceeding twenty-one years; and it also provided for aliens becoming naturalized. Alien, (UK) is a person who is neither a Common-wealth

expense

in furtherance of one's business esp. as part of the cost of operating a business in the taxable year in which the expense is incurred compare capital expense and personal expense in this entry NOTE: Business expenses

retrogression

occurs when the annual numerical limit has been reached. This usually happens near the end of a fiscal year (October 1 to September 30 of the next year). When the new fiscal year begins, the Visa Office

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