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1950s in Irish television

July 1959 – Under the leadership of newly appointed Taoiseach Seán Lemass, the Cabinet rejects the findings of the Television Commission, and instead recommends that a television service should be included with radio as part of a single public statutory authority.

AAIB

Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore, a statutory board of the Ministry of Transport in Singapore

Alicja Kornasiewicz

1978 she passed exams as Statutory auditor; she is a member of the National Chamber of Statutory Auditors in Poland.

Anti-discrimination laws in Brazil

I - readmission to provide full compensation for any period of absence, upon payment of remunerations, corrected monetarily, plus legal interest; II - the perception, double, the remuneration of the cooling off period, adjusted for inflation and plus statutory interest.

Assault

Confusingly, the terms "assault" and "common assault" often encompass the separate offence of battery, even in statutory settings such as s 40(3)(a) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Baby's First Test

The statutory authority to establish Baby's First Test came from Section 5 of the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007.

Bodily Harm

Bodily harm, legal jargon used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences

Brendan Sullivan

"Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them."

British Virgin Islands company law

Shareholders in a British Virgin Islands company do not enjoy statutory pre-emption rights or rights of first refusal in relation to new issuances or sales of shares.

Building regulations

Building regulations in the United Kingdom, statutory instruments that seek to ensure that the policies set out in the Building Act 1984

Callcredit

Under the Data Protection Act of 1998, Callcredit, Equifax and Experian are required by law to offer a statutory credit file, which is sent out in the post and takes around seven working days.

Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

The Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007 (FINSA) established the Committee by statutory authority, reduced membership to 6 cabinet members and the Attorney General, added the Secretary of Labor and the Director of National Intelligence, and removed 7 White House appointees.

Common assault

In DPP v. Taylor, DPP v. Little 1992 1 QB 645, 95 Cr App R 28, it was held that common assault is a statutory offence, contrary to section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Companies Investigation Branch

Headed by the Inspector of Companies, CIB exercises on behalf of the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform the statutory powers of enquiry under the Companies Act 1985 and other legislation.

Criminal law of Australia

Criminal offences under New South Wales law are based on the common law and the statutory provisions in the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW).

Disqualifications Act 2000

In addition, they were not permitted to be the chair of any statutory committee of the Assembly, or members of the Northern Ireland Assembly Commission.

Elcom

Electricity Commission of New South Wales, a statutory body responsible for the generation and distribution of electricity in New South Wales, Australia

Employment Protection Act 1975

The Act also established the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) as a statutory body.

Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

External commentators, such as Mr Peter Garling, SC, have described these processes as 'onerous' during a 2008 statutory inquiry.

FibreSpan

Established in 2001, it is an independent UK national statutory utility, licensed by the DTI and regulated by Ofcom.

Frederick Hitz

President George H. W. Bush appointed Hitz the first statutory Inspector General of the CIA in 1990.

Frequency coordinator

In 1982, the United States Congress provided the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) the statutory authority to use frequency coordinators to assist in developing and managing the Private Land Mobile Radio (PLMR) spectrum.

Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999

They form the legal basis for ionising radiation protection in the United Kingdom (UK), although work with ionising radiation is also controlled in the UK through other statutory instruments such as the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 and the Radioactive Substances Act 1993.

Jonathan Temm

"What happened then is that the fourth Labour government was elected and new right economic theory took sway. The Roger Douglas market theory was being applied and the statutory monopoly, that used to exist for Plunket and Karitane, was eroded and eventually done away with. So our preschool childcare was significantly dented".

Jus soli

In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship (although they were not able to obtain definitive information from 19 countries).

KTO

Korea Tourism Organization, a statutory organization of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to promote the country's tourism industry

KVIC

Khadi and Village Industries Commission, a statutory body formed by the Government of India, under the Act of Parliament, 'Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act of 1956'

Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust

Lord Nicholls, Lord Hope, Baroness Hale all held that there was a new statutory tort for harassment in the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, and it made employers vicariously liable.

Miguel Verdiguier

He became a director of the Marseille Academy of Statutory, and later became an academic of merit at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid.

Neighbourhood character

Neighbourhood character is regulated in Victoria through a variety of planning instruments within ResCode, the statutory code for residential development.

NHRC

National Human Rights Commission of India, a statutory body established in 1993, under the provisions of The Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (TPHRA)

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering the seven districts of administrative county of North Yorkshire: Craven, Harrogate, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Scarborough, Selby; as well as the unitary authority of City of York.

Nuisance in English law

The House of Lords held that it had statutory authority to operate the refinery, saying "Parliament can hardly be supposed to have intended the refinery to be nothing more than a visual adornment to the landscape in an area of natural beauty".

Paternity

Parental leave, also called paternity leave, a statutory type of parental leave given in some countries to fathers

Port of Liverpool Police

The Port of Liverpool Police has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Merseyside Police, the territorial police force with statutory responsibility for policing Merseyside, which sets out how the two forces operate together and the sharing of certain resources, for example, custody facilities.

Press Council

Press Council of India, a statutory body in India that governs the conduct of the print and broadcast media

Register office

Set up by Act of Parliament in 1837, the statutory registration service is overseen by the Registrar General as part of the General Register Office (now part of the Home Office Identity and Passport Service) but provided locally by the county or unitary local authority.

Sexual orientation and the United States military

On July 19, 2013, Veterans Administration (VA) Secretary Eric Shinseki noted in a letter about the case that the statutory definitions of "spouse" and "surviving spouse" had yet to be invalidated by a court.

St Mary's Music School

Scottish Government funding, up to 100%, is available through the statutory Aided Places scheme to assist with the cost of tuition and boarding fees.

Standard of review

Questions of statutory interpretation decided by an agency in a manner that has the force of law are subject to Chevron review.

State Council of Education

West Bengal State Council of Technical Education, is the statutory body and a state-level council for technical education in India

Statutory college

Outside of New York, the privately run Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) has a financial-arrangement structure that is somewhat similar to that found in New York’s statutory colleges.

Statutory Instrument

The process of creating of Statutory Instruments is governed by the Statutory Instruments Act 1946.

Subject matter

Patentable subject matter (or statutory subject matter), defining whether patent protection is available

Surplus Property Board

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic advisor, Bernard Baruch, originally recommended that the U.S. dispose of surplus war goods through an agency run by a single administrator (and assisted by a policy board), and with general statutory authority.

Taxicabs of Australia

The Victorian Government introduced legislation in early June 2011 to provide support to the Taxi Industry Inquiry including by establishing a statutory authority, the Taxi Services Commission, to give clear organisational separation to the inquiry and to provide the inquiry with sufficient powers to obtain information and report to Government.

Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998

The Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998 (c. 30) was enacted by the United Kingdom Parliament on 16 July 1998, in order to improve the standards of teaching in the UK through the establishment of statutory General Teaching Councils (GTC's) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland and the modification the remit of the General Teaching Council for Scotland.

Vergée

In the Channel Islands, it is a standard measure of land, but the statutory definition differs between the bailiwicks.

Wild river

Canada's river conservation program was not established by statute, but is instead a cooperative arrangement between Canada's ten provinces and three territories establishing a fifteen member (appointed) Canadian Heritage Rivers board, to which participating members nominate rivers to be designated as heritage rivers, for which river management plans building on existing statutory powers are prepared, agreed, and endorsed.

William Klippgen

He also co-founded Singapore seed investment fund BAF Spectrum in 2006, which primarily invests in tech startups across Asia in a co-funding partnership with SPRING Singapore (a statutory board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry in Singapore).


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