Example sentences of "and [art] [adj] [noun pl] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ legislative moment ’ incorporating all the major changes which Hall places under the title ‘ legislation of consent ’ , lasted roughly from 1959 ( Wolfenden , and the Obscene Publications Act ) to 1968 ( end of theatre censorship and the Wootton Report on drugs ) . |
| 2 | The Dearing Committee 's recommendations had been accepted and the new Companies Act saw the creation of the independent Financial Reporting Council with its own Review Panel . |
| 3 | It has , however , been argued that certain fundamental Acts of Parliament such as the Act of Union with Scotland 1707 and the European Communities Act 1972 could not be repealed as , in each case , Parliament which enacted the provision is no longer in existence in the same form but has reconstituted itself as a less powerful body . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Interception of communications and the Official Secrets Act . |
| 6 | Fish and chips and the Official Secrets Act |
| 7 | Cabinet memoranda are not published and the Official Secrets Act effectively prohibits anything but titbits of information coming onto the public agenda for consideration . |
| 8 | Labour scraped into office ; the miners secured a 30 per cent pay rise ; and the Industrial Relations Act was repealed . |
| 9 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 10 | If there is no such charge it will normally be described as a ‘ bond ’ or a ‘ loan note ’ but , as the ‘ definitions ’ in the Companies Act and the Financial Services Act at least make clear , it will in law be a ‘ debenture . ’ |
| 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 | The Building Societies Act was a response to structural changes in the financial services market , whereas the Banking Act and the Financial Services Act were responses to cases of fraud and bad practice , and as such are ‘ defensive ’ forms of regulation that might have been expected to be overdetailed and expensive to implement ( Goodhart 1988 ) . |
| 13 | For who within the service is seeking or is willing to dismantle these units whose power and autonomy has been growing in strides since the Royal Commission of 1960 and the subsequent Police Act of 1964 first created the amalgamated giants ? |
| 14 | The 1982 Local Government Finance Act abolished the right of authorities to set a supplementary rate and the 1984 Rates Act empowered the government to limit the spending and rates of centrally defined overspending authorities . |
| 15 | The Financial Reporting Review Panel , which oversees financial reporting and ensures accountancy standards are adhered to , has accused two publicly quoted companies of failing to comply with Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAP ) and the 1985 Companies Act , but in both cases the Panel has decided not to use its powers under the Companies Act to apply for a court order revising the defective accounts . |
| 16 | After the Seebohm Report of 1968 and the Social Services Act of 1970 , there was a trend towards genericism in social work practice and training . |
| 17 | Unusually , the policy can be identified with a particular minister : Duncan Sandys ( who later made another contribution to planning with the promotion of the Civic Trust and the Civic Amenities Act ) . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State and his Ministers do not like to be reminded that they have a welfare role , but I must stress that the back payment of entitlement at issue tonight occurs under the National Insurance Act 1946 , a Social Security Act and the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976 which all state that DSS officers shall : ’ exercise their functions in such a manner as shall best promote the welfare of persons affected by the exercise of these functions . ’ |
| 19 | For example , voluntary organizations played , and will continue to play , a central role in the provision of children 's services ; they were also influential in shaping new child care legislation ( for example : The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Children Act , 1908 ; Association of British Adoption Agencies and the 1975 Children Act ) . |
| 20 | After the Queen 's Speech at the opening of the new session of the Stormont parliament , it criticised the failure of the Government to give any commitment on a universal franchise and the Special Powers Act , but the only action it proposed was a low-key educational programme . |