Example sentences of "[to-vb] effect to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their system " seeks to give effect to the wishes of every voter , whatever they may be and whether they have anything to do with party or not " . |
| 2 | Accordingly in my judgment it is not correct to describe the document as a will at that stage nor can it be said in my judgment that by his signature Mr. Winterbone intended to give effect to the document as any kind of effective document . |
| 3 | The relevant statute empowered the minister to set up such a committee but in this case he refused to do so on the ground that the complaint was unsuitable for investigation because it raised wide issues ; that if the committee upheld the complaint he would be expected to make an order to give effect to the committee 's recommendations ; and that the complaint should be dealt with by the Board rather than by the committee of investigation . |
| 4 | Despite the failure of the bill to give effect to the committee , Garway was one of the government 's critics who were included in the royal commission on public accounts appointed during the following prorogation . |
| 5 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
| 6 | Accordingly , an appeal will automatically be allowed if an appeal committee do not consider that to give effect to the preference would result in such prejudice . |
| 7 | This was certainly not the case in respect of the Geneva Conventions Act where the offences were newly created solely to give effect to the Convention , and were described as being hardly applicable to the case at all . |
| 8 | The English courts had to consider the meaning of the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ as used in section 9(1) of the Evidence ( Proceedings in Other Jurisdictions ) Act 1975 , passed mainly to give effect to the Convention ; the precise question was whether the evidence sought was ‘ for the purposes of civil proceedings … before the requesting court ’ within section 1 of the Act , the italicised phrase being interpreted in section 9 to mean proceedings in any civil or commercial matter . |
| 9 | These rights were threatened by the Government 's decision to submit the area for listing as a World Heritage area under executive powers bestowed by the World Heritage Properties Conservation Act 1983 ( Commonwealth of Australia ) , passed to give effect to the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage . |
| 10 | The court , in practice a Master of the Queen 's Bench Division , can make an appropriate order to give effect to the request underlying the application . |
| 11 | Treasury Economic Secretary Anthony Nelson made this statement in response to a Parliamentary Question , adding that the Inland Revenue hopes to give effect to the changes shortly . |
| 12 | If required , legislation will be invoked to give effect to the changes . |
| 13 | ‘ No will shall be valid unless — ( a ) it is in writing , and signed by the testator , or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and ( b ) it appears that the testator intended by his signature to give effect to the will ; and ( c ) the signature is made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time ; and ( d ) each witness either — ( i ) attests and signs the will ; or ( ii ) acknowledges his signature , in the presence of the testator ( but not necessarily in the presence of any other witness ) , but no form of attestation shall be necessary . |
| 14 | Paragraph ( b ) requires that the signature be intended to give effect to the will . |
| 15 | It was also , we think , common ground and is certainly correct that , against this background , any ambiguity in the Act should be resolved in favour of consistency between the Act and the Convention , the presumption being that the legislature was seeking to give effect to the principles of the Convention and would not lightly legislate inconsistently with the United Kingdom 's treaty obligations thereunder : see Garland v. British Rail Engineering Ltd. [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 751 , 771 . |
| 16 | Shortly stated , the main issue is whether a school which is over-subscribed so that it can not accept all the applications for admission can adopt religious criteria ( i.e. criteria intended to preserve the character of the school ) in selecting the successful applicants for admission and thereby exempt itself under section 6(3) ( a ) from the duty under section 6(2) to give effect to the preferences expressed by parents whose children do not meet such criteria . |
| 17 | In my judgment , therefore , the court exercising the inherent jurisdiction in relation to a 16- or 17-year-old child who is not mentally incompetent will , as a matter of course , ascertain the wishes of the child and will approach its decision with a strong predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes . |
| 18 | What I do stress is that the judge should approach the exercise of the discretion with a predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes on the basis that prima facie that will be in his or her best interests . |
| 19 | The two committees were set up under the provisions of the European parliamentary elections act nineteen ninety three , to carry out the task of determining the European parliamentary constituencies into which England and Wales should initially be divided to give effect to the increase , the section one of that act , made to the number of constituencies . |
| 20 | While a supervision order is in force the supervisor has a duty to : ( i ) advise , assist and befriend the supervised child ; ( ii ) take such steps as are reasonably necessary to give effect to the order ; ( iii ) consider whether or not to apply for discharge or variation where the order is not wholly complied with or may no longer be necessary ( s35(1) ) . |
| 21 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 22 | But sentencing principles and sentencing practice are matters of legitimate concern to Government , and Parliament provides the funds necessary to give effect to the court 's decisions . |
| 23 | What is proposed is to give effect to the privilege by removing the ground for apprehending danger . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the object of the substituted section 9 of the Wills Act 1837 had been to simplify the requirements for the execution and witnessing of a will ; that the complementary requirements , of a signature and of an intention that the signature should give effect to the will , demanded a practical approach ; that a written name , not being a normal signature , was capable of being a signature for the purposes of section 9 ; but that where a testamentary document was signed before the dispositive provisions had been written , affirmative evidence was necessary to show that the testator had intended the signature to give effect to the provisions ; that by writing his name and the dispositive provisions in one single operation the deceased had provided such evidence ; and that , accordingly , the will had been duly executed ; but that , on the evidence , the deputy judge had been entitled to conclude that the onus on the defendants of establishing the testamentary capacity of the deceased had not been discharged ( post , pp. 588B–H , 589B–F , 592A–C ) . |
| 25 | He was much concerned with strict honesty in business transactions and was closely involved in the agitation that led to the passing of the Prevention of Corruption Act in 1900 : he was subsequently chairman of the Bribery and Secret Commissions Prevention League , set up to give effect to the provisions of the Act . |
| 26 | It is quite possible that the legislation enacted to give effect to the decision ( the Interception of Communications Act 1985 ) will be the subject of another application under the Convention . |
| 27 | The Government will amend the law relating to the employment rights of pregnant women to give effect to the EC Directive on Pregnant Workers . |
| 28 | The Transfer Regulations , which were enacted to give effect to the EC Acquired Rights Directive 77/187 , will usually apply to a business sale if the vendor 's business is transferred to the purchaser " as a going concern " . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The smaller company will invariably have to pass an ordinary resolution increasing its authorised share capital and giving its directors authority to allot new shares under CA 1985 , s80 in order to give effect to the share exchange ( a s89 disapplication will not be necessary as the new share issue will be for a non-cash consideration ) . |
| 30 | So , if an exemption clause was part of the contract and if on its wording it excused one party from a given liability , then the court had to give effect to the clause , i.e. that party ( usually the seller ) had a valid defence . |