Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | The changes were carried into the Companies Act 1989 and are now known as the ‘ New Settlement ’ . |
| 2 | Many of the matters discussed appear in the Companies Act under the heading ‘ Management and Administration , ’ and the orthodox textbook arrangement is to consider them merely as aspects of the company 's internal machinery . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These definitions are significantly more positive than those contained in the Companies Act 1985 , and they make no allowance for the likelihood of the contingencies crystallising into actual liabilities ; this is apparently in conflict with SSAP 18 , Accounting for Contingencies , which requires remote contingencies to be excluded from accounts disclosures . |
| 5 | The law governing prospectuses is contained in the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 6 | Certain other provisions contained in the Patents Act 1977 are worthy of brief mention . |
| 7 | Before the changes contained in the Children Act 1989 came into effect the LEA , when contemplating prosecution , had to consider the appropriateness or otherwise of instituting care proceedings under section 1 ( 2 ) ( e ) of the Children and Young Persons Act ( CYPA ) in the juvenile court ( on the ground that a child was ‘ not receiving full-time education suitable to his age , ability and aptitude ’ ) , instead of or as well as prosecuting ( see Education Act 1944 section 40(2) ) . |
| 8 | The restrictions on Sunday trading contained in the Shops Act 1950 do not apply in Scotland , with the exception of hairdressers and barbers . |
| 9 | First , on the general anti-fraud provisions contained in the Securities Act 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act 1934 ( SEA ) , as developed by case law ; and second , on what has recently emerged as the SEC 's new and potentially most potent weapon — the misappropriation theory . |
| 10 | Home Office Circular 48/1991 contains guidance for magistrates on procedural and other matters relating to the Children Act . |
| 11 | The words in the second pair of square brackets in sub-section two B were substituted by the Courts Act nineteen seventy one , section three , subsection five . |
| 12 | Section 186 , as substituted by the Companies Act 1989 , provides : |
| 13 | In this capacity Baker submitted biannual reports and advised on legislation , which was elaborated and then codified by the Factories Act of 1878 . |
| 14 | They are similar to those appearing in statutory instruments made under the Companies Act 1985 which relate to businesses , and include words such as bank , Great Britain , Queen , United Kingdom and Windsor . |
| 15 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 16 | These recommendations were accepted and incorporated into the Courts Act 1971 which merged Assizes , Quarter Sessions and the Central Criminal Court into one Crown Court with two tiers of full-time judges , together with part-time recorders and assistant recorders . |
| 17 | Provision for this is now made in the Children Act 1989 . |
| 18 | A company is a legal entity whose affairs are mainly regulated by the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 19 | To comply with the Companies Act 1985 , auditors are required ( by section 236 ) to state expressly whether , in their opinion , the balance sheet and the profit and loss account ( and , if it is a holding company submitting group accounts , the group accounts ) have been properly prepared in accordance with the statutory requirements , and whether the accounts show a " true and fair view " of the state of the company 's affairs and of its profit ( or loss ) . |
| 20 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which is not a company limited by guarantee , would have to comply with the Charities Act . |
| 21 | Guide to the Factories Act 1961 is available from HMSO and booksellers , price £1 . |
| 22 | Where the objects of the society are charitable in the legal sense , which includes the relief of poverty , the advancement of education or religion , and other purposes beneficial to the community , formalities prescribed by older statutes have been abolished by the Charities Act 1960 , which , however , provides for compulsory registration of all charities not especially exempted . |
| 23 | This immunity has now been abolished by the Animals Act 1971 , so that where damage is caused by animals straying on the highway the question of liability is to be decided in accordance with the ordinary principles of negligence . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A corporation can not be made bankrupt ; but a company formed under the Companies Act 1985 or similar earlier Acts can be wound up , and its property distributed , according to rules similar to those applicable to bankruptcy . |
| 26 | IV Winding up of companies registered under the Companies Act |
| 27 | We are primarily concerned in the hotel and catering industry with registered companies incorporated and registered under the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 28 | This means that the company in question must be formed and registered under the Companies Act 1985 or under the former Companies Acts … |
| 29 | It was held that this did not entitle the seller to take from the buyer the proceeds of the sub-sales of his ( the seller 's ) property ; instead it merely created a charge in favour of the seller which was void because it was not registered under the Companies Act . |
| 30 | ( a ) where a recognised body ceases to be registered under the Companies Act as an unlimited company or a company limited by shares ; |