Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | … With regard to the provision of state benefits , I am advised and do verily believe that [ the mother ] would be eligible for financial assistance under either the Ontario General Welfare Assistance Act ( administered by local municipalities ) or the Family Benefits Act ( administered provincially by the maintenance branch of the Ministry of Community and Social Services ) . |
| 2 | Congress may pass measures of constitutional significance , for example , certain stipulations of electoral law or the War Powers Act . |
| 3 | However , the origin of this rule appears to have lain in the fact that , since the Crown was not liable in damages in the ordinary way , a requirement for an undertaking in damages would be inconsistent with the Crown 's immunity from liability ; and it was concluded that the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 had removed the justification for the rule . |
| 4 | One is the fact that the Building Societies Act of 1986 requires that at least 90% of the society 's commercial assets be devoted to mortgage lending . |
| 5 | Oz Clarke on low alcohol wines The effect that the Group Areas Act , the Population Registration Act and the Separate Amenities Act have on black vineyard workers is deplorable and , in my opinion , morally indefensible . |
| 6 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 7 | It was not until the Trunk Roads Act , 1936 that anything like a national roads strategy was suggested , with a rational division of roads into four : Trunk , Class I , Class II and unclassified — and even then Britain declined to embark on motorway building , in sharp contrast to Germany 's autobahns and Italy 's autostrada . |
| 8 | If the Trade Descriptions Act had been invoked , they could have found themselves in trouble . |
| 9 | It is fascinating to study the way that they bent the truth to promote a saleable product , yet even if the Trades Descriptions Act had been in force then , they would hardly ever have broken the law . |
| 10 | Once installed in government , however , the Labour Party embarked upon an energetic legislative programme including the establishment of the Department of Economic Affairs ( DEA ) under George Brown with the remit of formulating a national plan , and the Ministry of Technology under Cousins , a leading light of the leftward movement in the trade unions since the '50s ; the repeal of the 1957 Rent Act attacked by Labour as a ‘ landlord 's charter ’ and associated with ‘ Rachmanism ’ ; the development of comprehensive education ; the development of regional policy in an attempt to alleviate the relatively high unemployment and slow growth of the depressed areas of the UK dependent on declining industries ; the 1965 Trade Disputes Act , which gave union leaders full legal protection from actions over breach of employment contract ; and the Redundancy Payments Act . |
| 11 | The precise nature and requirements for such approvals are beyond the scope of this book but common examples are in the fields of insurance ( see the Insurance Companies Act 1982 and the Financial Services Act 1986 ) , banking ( see the Banking Act 1979 ) , newspapers ( see the Fair Trading Act 1973 ) , telecommunications , building societies , Ministry of Defence contractors and bars , hotels , restaurants and off-licences ( see the Licensing Act 1964 and the Hotel Proprietors Act 1956 ) . |
| 12 | It could follow the lines of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976 in making age discrimination ‘ unlawful in employment , training and related matters , in education , in the provision of goods , facilities and services and in the disposal and management of premises . |
| 13 | In a different way , the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality are empowered by the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976 respectively to render assistance to individuals alleging discrimination . |
| 14 | The award is higher where the employer is found to have discriminated against the employee under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 , the Sex Discrimination Acts 1975 and 1986 and the Race Relations Act 1976. ( iv ) Special award Special awards are made where a dismissal relates to trade union membership . |
| 15 | There are a number of other registers that are relevant with respect to certain specialist charges ; the most important of these registers are those maintained under the Land Registration Act 1925 and the Land Charges Act 1972 . |
| 16 | The next important date in real property chronology is 1925 which saw the enactment of the Law of Property Act , the Settled Land Act , the Trustee Act , the Administration of Estates Act , the Land Registration Act and the Land Charges Act ( the latter amended and re-enacted in 1972 ) . |
| 17 | Many civil laws are derived from the common law , e.g. tort of negligence , whilst in the area of hotel and catering law the majority of criminal offences which may be committed are statutory , e.g. involving the Food Safety Act 1990 and the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 . |
| 18 | So in other words you 're covered by the , well you 're covered by both the Sale of Goods Act and the Trade Descriptions Act . |
| 19 | To conform to the statutory requirements in respect of the deduction of income tax and national insurance , and the Wages Councils Act 1959 . |
| 20 | It was not until the Local Government Act of 1889 and the Burgh Police Act of 1892 that the Scottish spelling ‘ Burgh ’ became universal and firmly established in Scotland . |
| 21 | While this was generally hailed as an historic reforming speech , observers noted first that de Klerk did not lift the state of emergency , and indeed justified its continuing existence , and second that he made no reference to the repeal of legislation ( apart from the Separate Amenities Act ) which formed the so-called " cornerstones " of the apartheid system , notably the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act . |
| 22 | He proposed a reduction in the State President 's powers , and reaffirmed that while the Separate Amenities Act would be repealed in 1990 , and the Group Areas Act replaced with a non-discriminatory law the following year , other apartheid legislation would remain on the statute book until a new constitution was drawn up . |
| 23 | By 112 votes to 30 , the House of Assembly ( the white chamber of the tricameral Parliament ) passed the Repeal of Discriminatory Land Measures Act on June 5 , effectively nullifying the Land Acts of 1913 and 1936 and the Group Areas Act of 1950 . |
| 24 | The Butler Education Act and the Family Allowances Act were both measures of the Conservative-dominated wartime coalition . |
| 25 | Apart from the designated criminal justice legislation , the statutes discussed in the narrative of this book include : the Murder ( Abolition of Death Penalty ) Act 1965 , the Courts Act 1971 , the Bail Act 1976 , the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the Prosecution of Offenders Act 1985 , the Public Order Act 1986 , and the War Crimes Act 1991 . |
| 26 | Whereas the Fire Precautions Act just says we have to do it , but it does n't say when . |
| 27 | Under the Conservatives , the strength of the RUC has been increased , while the Emergency Provisions Act 1991 contains new powers to combat terrorist funding . |
| 28 | Since the Life Peerages Act 1958 the hereditary nobility have been reinforced by a trickle of people , usually fairly elderly , whose titles do not pass on to their heirs . |
| 29 | Since the Trade Descriptions Act came into force in 1969 there is substantial and extensive case law deciding the question of due diligence . |