Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] act [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 2 | What the Firearms Act provides is a series of inchoate or preventive offences which criminalize conduct even before it has reached the stage of an attempt to commit some substantive offence . |
| 3 | The Animals Act contains no provisions relating to remoteness of damage . |
| 4 | ON the basis that ‘ forewarned is forearmed ’ the fundamental principle underlying the Companies Acts has been that of disclosure . |
| 5 | The Companies Acts provides for Registrars to give complete shareholder lists to persons on payment of a fee ; |
| 6 | If there is conflict the Companies Act takes precedence . |
| 7 | If there is conflict the Companies Act takes precedence ’ |
| 8 | Article 31 ( also printed in bold ) should be used as S.7 of the Companies Act requires an unlimited company 's articles to state the amount of share capital with which it proposes to be registered . |
| 9 | A company director or shareholder is in a more constrained position : the Companies Act forbids loans from the company to directors and reductions in the company 's capital . |
| 10 | The Companies Act empowers a company to make payments to employees or former employees on the cessation or transfer of the business ( in effect , voluntary redundancy payments ) , notwithstanding that the exercise of this power is not ‘ in the best interests of the company ’ . |
| 11 | The Companies Act provides that companies must have directors but does not define their functions . |
| 12 | The Companies Act affords certain powers to holders of specified percentages of the total voting capital : |
| 13 | In any case a company formed under the Companies Act has a considerable power of altering the objects stated in the Memorandum of Association which is signed by its first members at the formation of the company , subject to the power of the holders of fifteen per cent of its shares or debentures to apply to the court to cancel an alteration . |
| 14 | Except for some irrelevant provisions , such as those relating to merger relief and intermediate holding companies , Sch 5 to the Companies Act has been followed almost exactly . |
| 15 | If the Government is serious about reducing the burdens on business , it says , then the £2m turnover criterion contained in the Companies Act makes much more sense than the proposed £36,600 VAT threshold which is far too low . |
| 16 | The Rates Act has been widely interpreted as a threat to local-government independence . |
| 17 | The Government argued that as the Wages Act removes rights to paid holidays , additional rates for weekend and shift work , as well as 550,000 young people losing their rights to minimum wages , these cuts are justified . |
| 18 | As the Children Act waits , poised for implementation , it remains to speculate on how significant and successful it is likely to be : and it is tempting to do so with benefit of hindsight in the context of all the discarded child care legislation of the past forty years . |
| 19 | Section 10(9) of the Children Act lays down specific criteria which the court must apply when an applicant seeks leave to apply for a s8 order ( see pp171-172 ) . |
| 20 | The Children Act says local authorities should provide the same sort of care ‘ that it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give ’ , and the assessment and action records are designed to help authorities be effective parents . |
| 21 | The three distinct situations in which the Children Act imposes a duty on local authorities to investigate are as follows . |
| 22 | The Children Act imposes a duty on certain agencies to assist " unless it would be unreasonable in all the circumstances of the case " to expect them to do so ( s47(9) ( 10 ) ) . |
| 23 | The Children Act requires SSDs to give much greater weight to the context of people 's lives . |
| 24 | There is the possibility of considerable tension between the response the Children Act requires and policies and practice amounting to neglect or harassment of unsited traveller families . |
| 25 | Section 25 of The Children Act requires local authorities to make an application for a secure accommodation in the family proceedings court not the youth court . |
| 26 | The Children Act requires partnership with parents in child protection decision , and says court orders should be avoided where possible . |
| 27 | The Children Act requires an investigating authority to act upon its findings . |
| 28 | Most importantly , section 98 of the Children Act withdraws the right to silence in proceedings for care , supervision or child protection under the Act , but disqualifies any admission made here from being used as evidence in criminal prosecution . |
| 29 | The welfare principle in the Children Act replaces a similar provision contained in previous legislation now repealed . |
| 30 | What the Children Act does at least recognise in the Conservative Government passing the Childrens Act is the importance of Local Government . |