Example sentences of "[art] [noun] act " in BNC.
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| 1 | A county court judgment did not carry interest under the Judgments Act 1838 ( R v Essex County Court Judge ( 1887 ) 18 QBD 704 ) , but the Lord Chancellor is empowered under s 74 of the 1984 Act to order by statutory instrument that county court judgments shall carry interest . |
| 2 | If agreement can not be reached on this compromise before next week 's deadline , the ministry will use the Defence Act of 1854 to abolish all rights of common . |
| 3 | Under the pre-Children Act 1989 regime , between 10 and 25 per cent of care cases involving truants resulted in a residential care order . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't see any need for the caveman act , ’ she said stiffly . |
| 5 | The recent American tour , when Juliana 's new band were the support act , may well have screwed up the relationship , however . |
| 6 | If it is somewhat bizarre that after all the arguing , all the effort , the video souvenir of the event should be enormously disappointing to the band , it 's not more ironic that the fact that after the show the support act stole all the headlines — for all the wrong reasons . |
| 7 | Back then , I naturally never thought I would be one day joining them as the support act . |
| 8 | Section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1843 ( 6 & 7 Vict. c. 73 ) provided that no solicitor could commence an action for fees until one month after he delivered to his client a bill of fees . |
| 9 | Similarly , I think section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1843 deals , not with the right of the solicitor , but with the procedure to enforce that right . |
| 10 | The debtor obtained an order from the county court that the statutory demand and bankruptcy petition be set aside on the ground that the service of the statutory demand had contravened the provision in section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 that ‘ no action shall be brought ’ to recover any costs due to a solicitor within one month of the bill having been delivered . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although ‘ action ’ in section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 was to be construed liberally it could extend only to forms of legal process and did not embrace a statutory demand , the service of which was merely part of the statutorily prescribed procedure for obtaining remedies afforded to creditors by a bankruptcy order and did not of itself initiate legal proceedings ; that a solicitor was therefore not debarred by section 69(1) from serving a statutory demand for payment of his costs before the expiration of one month from the date of delivery of his bill of costs ; and that , accordingly , since the statutory demand and petition were valid , they would be remitted to the district judge for hearing ( post , pp. 1029E–F , G — 1030A , 1031E ) . |
| 12 | On 28 January 1992 District Judge Harris sitting in the Liverpool County Court granted the debtor 's application to set aside a statutory demand dated 15 August 1991 which had been served on the debtor on 21 August 1991 by the creditors , Marshalls , a firm of solicitors , in respect of their unpaid bill of 31 July 1991 , and dismissed the bankruptcy petition founded on that demand , which had been issued on 20 September 1991 , on the basis that the service of the statutory demand had contravened section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 25 February 1992 the creditors appealed on the ground , inter alia , that the service of a statutory demand was not the bringing of an action and therefore did not contravene section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 14 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 15 | The Solicitors Act 1974 |
| 16 | Counsel for the debtor relied on section 69(1) of the Solicitors Act 1974 : |
| 17 | Some reliance was also placed on the fact that the 31 July bill did not comply with the requirements of section 67 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 18 | The Assistant Director was acting under the authority of a Council resolution made under Section 79 of the Solicitors Act 1974 [ as substituted by Section 97 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 ] . |
| 19 | ‘ indemnity rules ’ means rules made under section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 20 | ‘ ( a ) For the avoidance of doubt , neither registration in the register of foreign lawyers , nor anything in these rules or in any other rules made under Part II of the Solicitors Act 1974 or section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 , shall entitle any registered foreign lawyer to be granted any right of audience or any right to conduct litigation within the meaning of Part II and section 119 of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 , or any right to supervise or assume any responsibility for the exercise of such rights . |
| 21 | any activity reserved to solicitors ( whether solely or together with other persons ) by the Solicitors Act 1974 or any other statute ; or |
| 22 | Rules dated made by the Council of the Law Society with the concurrence of the Master of the Rolls under section 9 of the Administration of justice Act 1985 , Part II of the Solicitors Act 1974 and schedule 15 paragraph 6 of the Financial Services Act 1985 , regulating the incorporated practices of solicitors and registered foreign lawyers in England and Wales and overseas . |
| 23 | ( b ) ‘ authorised insurers ’ , ‘ the Council ’ , ‘ practising certificate ’ , ‘ the roll ’ and ‘ the Society ’ shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 24 | ( d ) ‘ indemnity rules ’ means rules made under section 37 of the Solicitors Act 1974 and section 9 of the Act ; |
| 25 | ( h ) ‘ solicitor ’ means a person qualified to act as a solicitor under section 1 of the Solicitors Act 1974 ; |
| 26 | ( i ) the practising certificate of any member is withdrawn due to non-renewal under Section 14(5) of the Solicitors Act 1974 provided that a new practising certificate is issued within two months of such expiry ; or |
| 27 | ( b ) a director or member has been the subject of an order under section 47(2) ( a ) – ( c ) of the Solicitors Act 1974 or Schedule 14 paragraph 15(4) ( a ) – ( c ) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 190 ; |
| 28 | ( c ) the powers conferred by Part II of Schedule 1 to the Solicitors Act 1974 have been exercised in respect of the body or in respect of a firm or recognised body of which a director or member of the body applying for recognition is or has been a principal or a director or member as the case may be ; or |
| 29 | It must however be emphasized that these powers can not be used by a solicitors ' incorporated practice to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to incorporated practices — in this regard attention is drawn to the proviso set out in Clause 3(a) . |
| 30 | ( a ) To carry on business consisting of the provision of professional services such as are provided by individuals practising as solicitors and by multi-national partnerships PROVIDED THAT nothing in any sub-clause of this Clause shall give the Company power to do anything in breach of the Solicitors Act 1974 , the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or section 9 of the AJA . |