Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 2 | The Regulations amend the Companies Act 1985 and the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 3 | MINISTERS at the Department of the Environment have decided , after all , to implement the Reservoirs Act that parliament passed in 1975 . |
| 4 | Further , the justices should have considered The Children Act 1989 , Guidance and Regulations Volume Court Orders , vol. 1 , p. 66 , para. 5.1 . |
| 5 | The British government was only waiting for the ECJ to rule ( and its decision was not unexpected ) before reforming the Shops Act . |
| 6 | My extensive programme of separate discussions with a wide range of major interest groups on possible ways of reforming the Shops Act 1950 is nearing completion . |
| 7 | The Child Care Act of 1980 was a consolidating Act replacing the Children Act 1948 . |
| 8 | What the Children Act does at least recognise in the Conservative Government passing the Childrens Act is the importance of Local Government . |
| 9 | Looking at the matter generally , I can not believe that that could conceivably have been the intention of Parliament when passing the Children Act 1989 and thereby , if Judge Galpin is right , taking away from children within England and Wales the right to have an order made in their best interests by returning them to where they ought to be , which was a right which those children had , and parents acting on their behalf were able to claim in the courts , until 14 October 1991 . |
| 10 | What the Children , what the Children Act does at least recognise in the Conservative Government passing the Children Act is the importance of Local Government . |
| 11 | The threshold , perhaps , was set too high ; the courts , remembering the Moneylenders Act , tended to equate ‘ extortionate ’ with ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 12 | Opening the case for the prosecution , the Council 's lawyer , Mr Neil Calver told magistrates that by trading on that day , B & Q had contravened the Shops Act . |
| 13 | Aminah Husain Sumpton , a freelance trainer and guardian ad litem , welcomed the Children Act but she said its full potential had not been achieved . |
| 14 | John Thornton of fund managers Murray Johnstone sees the Charities Act as a godsend : ‘ We are seeing apathy starting to break down as a result of the Charities Act ’ . |
| 15 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 16 | It is important that we examine the Children Act 1989 to make sure that we have got the complaints procedure right . |
| 17 | We 've still got the Children Act coming through , I know that may appear a bit odd , but that Act was in fact in nineteen eighty nine , but it 's come through in a sense on an incremental basis , and it 's accepted by the Department of Health and er , the S S I , that indeed , and the Audit Commission , that there are elements in the present settlement for the Children Act . |
| 18 | The Ministry say ’ we are concerned about ragwort , but we 're considering repealling the Weeds Act in the interests of de-regulation . |
| 19 | By the following day , County held over 13% of Blue Arrow shares , split into three tranches to avoid the Companies Act requirement that holdings of more than 5% ( since changed to 3% ) should be disclosed . |
| 20 | ‘ If there are book-keeping irregularities , then he has breached the Companies Act , which is where the DTI comes in and it 's the only way we can get rid of him . |
| 21 | The new legislation amends the Badgers Act 1983 , which becomes the Badgers Act 1991 , and effectively ensures that badgers are as well protected by law as are species on the verge of extinction . |
| 22 | It amends the Highways Act 1980 to allow closure or diversion of footpath crossings on grounds of safety . |
| 23 | I understand my hon. Friend 's point , but the section is entirely clear and I think that all local authorities are aware of its provisions , which place the primary duty of enforcing the Shops Act 1950 on them . |
| 24 | The Bill also seeks to amend the Companies Act to require all plcs to publish their settlement periods of accounts and invoices in their annual reports . |
| 25 | However , some professionals may criticise the new guidelines for undermining the Children Act 's principles on young people 's rights , opening the door to abuses such as pin-down . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) made a good point at the beginning of the debate when he said that there have been considerable difficulties in redesigning the Shops Act 1950 to meet the requirements of the 1990s . |
| 27 | Important as arguments about the common investment funds are , more important questions are perhaps posed by the accounting changes the Charities Act is ushering in . |
| 28 | ( 4 ) In this Clause ‘ the Act ’ means the Companies Act 1985 as amended by the Companies Act 1989 and ‘ the AJA ’ means the Administration of Justice Act 1985 as amended by Schedule 18 , paragraph 54 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , but so that any reference in this Clause to any provision of the Act or the AJA shall be deemed to include a reference to any statutory modification or re-enactment of that provision for the time being in force and the reference to the Solicitors Act 1974 shall be deemed to include a reference to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) ‘ the Act ’ means the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 30 | ( 4 ) In this Clause ‘ the Act ’ means the Companies Act 1985 as amended by the Companies Act 1989 and ‘ the AJA ’ means the Administration of Justice Act 1985 as amended by Schedule 18 , paragraph 54 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , but so that any reference in this Clause to any provision of the Act or the AJA shall be deemed to include a reference to any statutory modification or re-enactment of that provision for the time being in force and the reference to the Solicitors Act 1974 shall be deemed to include a reference to any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force . |