Category: Administrative Law
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House
Boarding-House: Legal History Boarding-House, a private house in which the proprietor provides board and lodging for paying guests. The position of a guest in a boarding-house differs in English law, to some extent, on the one hand from that of a lodger in the ordinary sense of the term, and […]
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County
Definition of County In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of County : A first-tier *local government area in England (outside Greater London) or Wales. The Local Government Act 1972 created 45 counties for England and 8 for Wales, dividing the former into […]
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County
Definition of County In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of County : A first-tier *local government area in England (outside Greater London) or Wales. The Local Government Act 1972 created 45 counties for England and 8 for Wales, dividing the former into […]
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Hazardous Substance
Hazardous Substances in the United Kingdom Hazardous Substances Consent and Land Planning in Scotland Hazardous substances consent is required for the presence of a hazardous substance on, over or under land (which includes presence in buildings and on structures) unless the aggregate quantity of the substance present is less than the controlled quantity for that…
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Radioactive Material
Radioactive Material Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste NORM Waste Regulation in the UK NORM waste is a specific term used in legislation and includes wastes from NORM industrial activities and NORM wastes from the remediation of land contaminated with NORM. Some of the industrial activities generate, or have the potential for generating, NORM wastes.…
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Radioactive Material
Radioactive Material Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste NORM Waste Regulation in the UK NORM waste is a specific term used in legislation and includes wastes from NORM industrial activities and NORM wastes from the remediation of land contaminated with NORM. Some of the industrial activities generate, or have the potential for generating, NORM wastes.…
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Prescription Charges
Prescription Charges Background The United Kingdom is made up of four countries; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Health care across the United Kingdom is universal and free at the point of use however there are charges for some services e.g. prescription medications [3]. In addition approximately 11% of the population have private health insurance…
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Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy Administration and central Bureaucracy and self-government must not be regarded as mutually exclusive systems of administration. In all civilised states they supplement one another, although their relative importance is hardly ever in two instances the same. It is a mistake to suppose that there is no self-government in Prussia, in France, or even…
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Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy Administration and central Bureaucracy and self-government must not be regarded as mutually exclusive systems of administration. In all civilised states they supplement one another, although their relative importance is hardly ever in two instances the same. It is a mistake to suppose that there is no self-government in Prussia, in France, or even…
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Parliamentary Financial Procedures
History The whole law of finance, and consequently the whole British constitution, is grounded upon one fundamental principle, laid down at the very outset of English parliamentary history and secured by three hundred years of mingled conflict with the Crown and peaceful growth. All taxes and […]
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Conveyancing
Definition of Conveyancing In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Conveyancing : The procedures involved in validly creating, extinguishing, and transferring ownership of interests in land. Only a practising solicitor or *licensed conveyancer may charge a fee […]