Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had evidently suffered a fit of amnesia , and overlooked not only the European Communities Act , 1972 , which tore a great hole in this country 's legislative independence , but that much earlier aberration , the signature of the European Convention of Human Rights in 1950 . |
| 2 | At least the European Communities Act , if I remember rightly , had been the subject of a debate or two . |
| 3 | In it alone , from the Reformation Parliament of 1529 to the European Communities Act of 1972 , the prescriptive and therefore undefined and unlimited authority of the monarch has been exercised through an equally unique representative institution . |
| 4 | Yet one of the alterations effected in English law by the European Communities Act 1972 is that a person in good faith will not be prejudiced by any ultra vires transactions of a company , provided that the transaction was authorized by the company 's directors . |
| 5 | ( c ) European legislation Unlike United Kingdom delegated legislation , European legislation , the most typical example of which is regulations made by the Council of Ministers or ( informally ) the Commission of the European Community , enjoys the force of law within the United Kingdom without any parliamentary endorsement other than the general authorisation conferred by the European Communities Act 1972 ( see pp.136–7 below ) . |
| 6 | Accession to the Treaty of Rome was thus , in 1971 , effected by the conclusion by the government , in the exercise of prerogative powers and without reference to Parliament , of a Treaty of Accession to the Treaty of Rome followed later ( as was necessary in order to give this accession effect within the United Kingdom ) by the enactment by Parliament of the European Communities Act 1972 . |
| 7 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 8 | This happened in the case of membership of the EEC where the signing of the various treaties was followed by the passing of the European Communities Act 1972 . |
| 9 | The European Communities Act 1972 , s.2(1) gives present and future community law legal force in the United Kingdom but the Act does not specifically prohibit Parliament from enacting conflicting legislation . |
| 10 | The European Communities Act 1972 |
| 11 | The European Communities Act , it is argued , is such a constituent statute , and is accordingly entrenched . |
| 12 | ( b ) by finding that a domestic statute passed prior to entry is repealed by implication by the European Communities Act 1972 in so far as it fails to accord with our community obligations and thus does not represent the latest intention of Parliament ; |
| 13 | The European Communities Act 1972 joined the United Kingdom to the European Economic Community ( EEC ) as a member state , thus introducing a new and higher level of authority into the English legal system . |
| 14 | Section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 provides : |
| 15 | ‘ The legal sovereignty of Parliament has not been affected by the European Communities Act . ’ |
| 16 | This is a concept relatively new to English company law having been introduced by section 9 of the European Communities Act 1972 to comply with the First Company Law Directive . |
| 17 | The direct effect of such provisions is provided for within the United Kingdom by section 2(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 , in the following terms : |
| 18 | This requirement is expressly laid down in the United Kingdom by section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 , in the following terms : |
| 19 | Section 3(1) of the European Communities Act 1972 expressly provides that the meaning or effect of any of the Treaties ‘ shall be treated as a question of law ( and , if not referred to the European Court , be for determination as such in accordance with the principles laid down by and any relevant decision of the European Court ) ’ . ’ |
| 20 | A fortiori is this the case where the Treaty obligation arises under one of the Community treaties to which section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 applies . |
| 21 | The direct effect in the United Kingdom of the Community treaties and of legislations made by the Council and Commission under treaty powers would depend on the European Communities Act . |
| 22 | When the European Communities Act 1972 became law each House of Parliament set up a committee to advise on how scrutiny of European legislation could most effectively take place . |
| 23 | In order to provide for such a constitutional amendment , Parliament passed the European Communities Act in 1972 , which stated that the requirements arising now or subsequently from the Treaty ‘ are without further enactment to be given legal effect or used in the United Kingdom ’ ( European Communities Act , section 2(1) ) . |
| 24 | On these grounds , Acts of Parliament which inadvertently contradict elements of Community law are modified so as to comply with the European Communities Act . |
| 25 | Compared with the European Communities Act 1972 , what additional authority has now been conceded to Brussels from the United Kingdom Parliament ? |
| 26 | Mr Zaphiriou seems to state that the whole of the Treaty and all regulations are directly applicable in this country ( p 4 ) , yet sec 2 ( 1 ) of the European Communities Act , 1972 , makes it abundantly clear that only those rules of Community law , be they derived from the Treaty or the acts of the institutions , which are directly applicable under Community law have direct effect in this country . |
| 27 | On the question of the paramountcy of European Community law over UK law , Mr Zaphiriou misses the point that sec 2 ( 4 ) of the European Communities Act , 1972 , can be taken as providing that Community law is to prevail over both previous and subsequent British legislation ( p 11 ) . |
| 28 | There seems to be a strong argument now that the provisions of Regulation 5 of the UK Transfer Regulations , in so far as they make the transfer of the contract of employment compulsory on the employee as well as the employer , are ultra vires and so susceptible to judicial review , in the sense that the government in making the Regulations exceeded the powers conferred on it by the European Communities Act 1972 to make law by delegated legislation . |
| 29 | The EC Treaties are given direct legal effect in the United Kingdom by virtue of section 2 of the European Communities Act 1972 . |
| 30 | Bulgaria 's Grand National Assembly on Oct. 24 passed an amendment to the Political Parties Act which debarred all personnel in the Army , police , judiciary , diplomatic service and full-time presidential staff from membership of a political party . |