Example sentences of "act [adj] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trustee Act 1925 , ss31-32 , should be extended ( see Williams on Wills 6th edn , Butterworths , 1987 , vol 2 , p1267 and 1275 ) if monies are to be retained until such child or children come of age , so that the trustees have flexibility in their use of both income and capital of a child 's share of the trust fund , as should the power of investment so that it is not limited by the Trustee Investments Act 1961. ( v ) Insurance — Section 19(1) of the Trustee Act 1925 limits a trustee 's power to insure to insurance against fire to three-quarters of the value of the property ; as the trustees will probably not have any cash , the occupier wife should be made responsible for insurance . |
| 2 | Moreover , it is a criminal offence under s47(1) Financial Services Act 1986 to induce a person to buy or sell shares by a fraudulent statement or the concealment of material facts . |
| 3 | The Financial Services Act 1986 introduced a régime for the control of persons and bodies carrying on various kinds of financial business , or offering financial services by what has come to be known as self-regulation . |
| 4 | First , the Agriculture Act 1986 places a duty on the Minister of Agriculture to : |
| 5 | ( 10 ) To take action under s63(3) of the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 to enforce a residence order ( s14 ) . |
| 6 | The Offences against the Person Act 1861 contains a number of crimes concerned with the administration of noxious or toxic substances . |
| 7 | Where a person is authorised by s 375 of the Companies Act 1985 to represent a corporation or company at any meeting of creditors , he must produce to the official receiver a copy of the resolution so authorising him . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 9 | While the Companies Act 1985 adopts a policy of disclosure to guard against insider dealing , the CSA 1985 contains the substantive body of legislation prohibiting the practice . |
| 10 | In his article at [ 1992 ] Crim.L.R. 173 , Mr. Ronald Cottrell argued that the Schedule to the War Crimes Act 1991 leaves a defendant without an opportunity to challenge the prosecution case if a notice of transfer has been served . |
| 11 | In Britain the Contempt of Court Act 1981 allows a court to order disclosure if necessary in the interests of justice or national security , or for the prevention of disorder or crime . |
| 12 | He submitted that the court had no jurisdiction to hear the matter because the terms of section 7(5) of the Bail Act 1976 empower a justice of the peace to remand a person in custody only if the justice is of the opinion that , inter alia , he has broken a condition of his bail ; otherwise , if not of that opinion , the court must grant bail on the same conditions as were originally imposed . |
| 13 | Johnson ( [ 1979 ] AC 264 ) concerning the scope of the county court 's jurisdiction under the provisions of the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 to exclude a person from premises in which that person has a proprietary interest . |
| 14 | Under the Act those executing a warrant are required ( not empowered ) to intercept all communications sent to or from one or more addresses specified in the warrant where the address in question is likely to be used for the transmission of communications to or from one particular person specified or described in the warrant . |
| 15 | Part I of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 implements a Directive of the European Community and gives the consumer an additional right to make a claim which is free of both these drawbacks . |
| 16 | Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) . |
| 17 | When making the care order , the justices , concerned about the divergent views regarding the proposed rehabilitation plan but having decided not to make an order that there be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Children Act 1989 made a direction that the guardian ad litem 's involvement should be allowed to continue in order to investigate the progress of the rehabilitation so that , if appropriate , the child could seek an order for contact to be terminated . |
| 18 | The Companies Act 1989 requires a company to keep accounting records which give a true and fair view of the financial position of the company . |
| 19 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 20 | With regard to informal partnerships , s.2 Partnership Act 1890 provides a number of rules whereby we can ascertain the nature of the enterprise and identify whether or not it is a partnership within the scope of the 1890 Act . |
| 21 | ‘ I have exercised my power under section 17(1) ( b ) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 to refer a point in the case of the Court of Appeal . |
| 22 | The Local Government Finance Act 1988 imposes a duty on local authorities to calculate how much they needed to raise by way of the poll tax . |
| 23 | Section 18 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 permits a court , on the application of a successful unassisted party , to award costs to be paid by the Legal Aid Board if : |
| 24 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |