Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escheat was swept away , together with the old law of intestate succession , by the new scheme introduced by the Administration of Estates Act 1925 . |
| 2 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has , as we shall see , provided a uniform scheme of intestate succession for all kinds of property . |
| 3 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 4 | Under the Administration of Estates Act 1925 , real and personal estates are equally liable to the payment of these debts . |
| 5 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has repealed the Statutes of Distribution altogether , and has confined the operation of the statutes of 1833 and 1859 to three specific cases . |
| 6 | The next important date in real property chronology is 1925 which saw the enactment of the Law of Property Act , the Settled Land Act , the Trustee Act , the Administration of Estates Act , the Land Registration Act and the Land Charges Act ( the latter amended and re-enacted in 1972 ) . |
| 7 | In the UK the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and its various amendments are in force . |
| 8 | This drug is banned under the 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , the Cane Toad does n't warrant inclusion , because anybody who scrapes the skin off the toad would find themselves in possession of a substance called Bufotenine , which happens to be listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . |
| 10 | This in fact occurred between mid-1984 and early 1985 , with several hundred people being prosecuted for Misuse of Drugs Act offences and acquisitive crime related to their drug dependency . |
| 11 | Other powers are given by such acts as the Firearms Act 1968 ( persons , vehicles in any public place can be searched for firearms ) ; Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ( permits the police to stop and search for controlled drugs anywhere ) ; Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 and various Wildlife Conservation Acts . |
| 12 | The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 is the basis of the present drug laws . |
| 13 | This is a water soluble salt of cocaine and it is a class A drug by virtue of paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . |
| 14 | Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 , ss.4(2) ( a ) and ( b ) & Sched. 2 , Part I — producing class A drug — conversion of cocaine hydrochloride into free base cocaine — whether ‘ production ’ |
| 15 | Held , dismissing the appeal , free base cocaine was included in paragraph 5 of Part I , Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 because that paragraph covered any preparation or other product containing a substance or product … specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4 ( which included cocaine ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Whether the conversion of one substance which is a controlled drug into a chemically and physically different substance which is also a controlled drug can constitute ‘ production ’ of a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ? ’ |
| 17 | ( It is an offence under section 5 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 to be in possession of cannabis . ) |
| 18 | However , when one takes into account other safety legislation such as the Food Safety Act 1990 , Agriculture Act 1970 , Medicines Act 1968 , Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and the Road Traffic Acts 1972 and 1988 , these limitations are not significant . |
| 19 | But potential cannabis raiders — beware — Pete Messenger has a licence from the Home Office to grow and use his crop , but anyone who takes any of these plants is committing an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act . |
| 20 | The principle used to have particular importance in relation to damage caused by straying livestock but there is now a specific statutory rule in Animals Act 1971 , s. 7 . |
| 21 | The Tattooing of Minors Act 1969 prohibits the tattooing of persons under 18 . |
| 22 | Application for revocation of an order for committal of the debtor under s 23(7) of the Attachment of Earnings Act 1971 must be made to the judge ex parte in writing explaining the reason for failure to attend court or refusing to be sworn or to give evidence , and undertaking to comply in future ( Ord 27 , r 8(2) ) . |
| 23 | For committals under the Attachment of Earnings Act , application is to be made to the judge ( Ord 27 , r 8(2) , ( 3 ) , ( 4 ) ) . |
| 24 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 25 | This means that we do not propose any fundamental change in the Payment of Wages Act . |
| 26 | The Protection of Animals Act does not include wild animals . |
| 27 | The Protection of Wrecks Act 1973 allows wrecks to be designated , making it an offence to interfere with them in any way without the authority of a licence granted by the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 28 | In Britain in 1978 , the Protection of Children Act extended the scope of the earlier Indecency with Children Act 1960 to cover indecent photographs , still or moving , of children under the age of 16 . |
| 29 | The Cinematograph Films ( Animals ) Act 1937 , like the Protection of Children Act , limits the range of material which may be imported into Britain for public exhibition or distribution , and it was once hoped , vainly , that such a law might provide the model for similar limitations in other countries . |
| 30 | In 1889 the Prevention of Cruelty and Protection of Children Act for the first time outlawed proven cruelty to children and allowed children in certain circumstances to be removed from their families to a place of safety , usually a charitable institution such as Barnardo 's . |