Example sentences of "as [art] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These can be sub-divided into two broad categories : record retention requirements , such as the Companies Act 1985 , ss.221–222 ; and requirements to disclose information to various authorities/persons , which imply the need to maintain records , such as the Data Protection Act 1984 ( see below ) . |
| 3 | Legislation such as the Charities Act 1992 provides a welcome focus on the achievements of the voluntary and community sectors . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The general requirements in the Order , which came into force on 1 May 1979 , will replace parts of earlier Acts such as the Factories Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1965 and the Office and Shop Premises Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1966 but they do not supersede the detailed requirements contained in the earlier legislation . |
| 6 | As the factories Act case illustrates , the courts sometimes Allow themselves to construe a statute in such a way as to produce a reasonable result , even though this involves departing from the prima facie meaning of the words . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To take an example , suppose that you wish to find the late annotations to a statute printed in the Continuation Volumes of Halsbury , such as the Children Act 1975 . |