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1 The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force .
2 Improper disclosure of information , which offence is committed where a member of a police force ( a ) without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force …
3 As far as the police part of the Bill is concerned , the er Government er under considerable pressure from erm er er members on their own side er as well as from these benches , have made the er very welcome concession that the chairman of a police authority shall no longer be appointed er by the Secretary of State , by the Home Secretary , but elected from among the members of the police authority er they have also made provision that the er er er i in response to the er criticisms that were made at second reading that the size of the p of a police authority shall no longer be limited to er sixteen members but could er by er order of the Secretary of State be extended to er twenty er er er twenty-four members .
4 Er in very briefly and I shall er expand the argument a min in a minute , my amendments five , eight and eleven provide that the size of a police authority should no longer be restricted to sixteen members , but should be er er by order er a somewhere between sixteen and twenty-four members and that two-thirds of those members should be er appoint er er amen appoint appointed by local authorities in the area concerned .
5 In Emma Hotels v. Secretary of State for the Environment [ 1980 ] 258 EG 64 ( QBD ) , it was held in identical circumstances that the operation of a non-residents ' bar was not a material change of use and did not require planning permission .
6 On arriving at Cape Town we found that the rumours of a seamen 's strike were very real , and that several boats were delayed in Table Bay owing to the crews ' refusing to take the vessels to sea .
7 The result is the same as for Cox , that is , that the introduction of a futures market increases the amount of information reflected in the spot price .
8 A laboratory study of Californian students by Forsythe , Palfrey and Plott ( 1984 ) found that the introduction of a futures market increased the speed with which information was reflected in the spot price .
9 But it was generally thought that the disposal of a children 's hearing would not be treated as a conviction .
10 other than the holder of a seamen 's canteen , refreshment or entertainment licence.In the case of an application by a licence-holder the occasional licence allows the sale of liquor " in the course of catering for an event taking place outwith the licensed premises " ( subs .
11 However the compartmentalized approach , rather reminiscent of that followed by Goudie ( 1981b ) , may not be as integrative as Douglas would hope , although the use of a systems paradigm and energy flows as discussed in chapter 7 ( p. 153 ) may provide a more integrative solution .
12 As the volume of digital data becomes larger , and the pressures on the environment increase , so the use of a GIS to evaluate alternative planning strategies will become more cost-effective .
13 Amendment thirty-one confirms that a chairman of a police authority will be elected by the authority itself , instead of being appointed by the Home Secretary As Noble Lord , Lord has already said .
14 At this time the Personnel Information System Department was formed within the Personnel Directorate and the evolution of a Personnel Information System began .
15 Likewise both business and government must have more than good intentions in order to turn the well meaning idealism into practical support , funding and long term dialogue , and the publication of a Charities Bill , in trying to increase public confidence in the sector , is a step in the right direction .
16 This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation .
17 This decision is to be left to the governors of the school , but the Department of Education and Science is recommending as wide a definition as possible , to include legal guardians , foster parents and the head of a children 's home when the child is in care .
18 In School A , this took the form of a plan to relocate the library , but in other project schools plans focused on such things as the development of a video network , the creation of display areas and the development of a careers room as part of the library complex .
19 Tina Howe 's Painting Churches shows her in full flight , as the wife of a distinguished Boston poet and the mother of a women painter who has come to do their portrait .
20 Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state .
21 The successful creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 was followed by formation of the European Economic Community and Euratom in 1957 , and the introduction of a customs union and the Common Agricultural Policy in 1968 .
22 But with exceptionally short overhangs at front and rear , it combines this ‘ big car stability ’ with the predictable handling and the nimbleness of a supermini .
23 It may also be true that ‘ ease of use ’ can influence the quality of work done and the effectiveness of a GIS as a decision support system .
24 They found a long platform and the remains of a goods shed .
25 A significant number were aimed at positive prevention and these included altering the time allowed for lesson changeover to reduce crowd chaos , a decision to involve all staff in corridor supervision , a move to set up mutual support pairs amongst staff and the creation of a rewards system following the realization that for non-academic pupils the school offered little or no incentives .
26 It is usually closed after a limited period , whereas the underwriting of a rights issue , especially where the rights issue is conditional on the success of the offer ( because the outcome of the offer is not guaranteed ) , may result in a longer underwriting commitment period and consequently higher underwriting costs .
27 MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway .
28 What sustains him constantly is belief in god or Truth , for the strength of a satyāgrahi is firmly rooted in faith and prayer .
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