Category: Administrative Law
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Public Function
Public function in the Context of Equality Law The meaning of Public function, published by the Equality and Diversity Forum (a United Kindom network of equality and human rights organisations), is the following: the term ‘public function’ has a very particular meaning in the context of the […]
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Public Function
Public function in the Context of Equality Law The meaning of Public function, published by the Equality and Diversity Forum (a United Kindom network of equality and human rights organisations), is the following: the term ‘public function’ has a very particular meaning in the context of the […]
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Public Sector Information
Public Sector Information Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 The EU Directive on the Re-use of Public Sector Information, adopted by the European Union in June 2013, was implemented and transposed into UK law as the Re-use of Public Sector Regulations 2015. The 2015 Regulations are in force from 18 July 2015. The Public…
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Nuisance
History The Public Health Acts 1875 to 1907 contain elaborate provisions for dealing with nuisances. Those which are dealt with summarily are thus enumerated: any premises in such a state as to be a nuisance or injurious to health; any pool, ditch, gutter, watercourse, privy, […]
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Local Government Board
Local Government Board History Set up in 1871 it took over responsibility for all aspects of local government from various ministries and the Poor Law Board. Succeeded by the Ministry of Health in 1919. In this issue about local government board, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as […]
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Knight-Service
Definition of Knight The lowest title of dignity. Originally a man-at-arms. It is not hereditary. Knights are of the following orders: Garter, Thistle, St. Patrick, Bath, St. Michael and St. George, Star of India, Indian Empire, Royal Victorian, British Empire and lastly Knights Bachelor. […]
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Urban District Finances
History First, in the case of boroughs where from the time of the first adoption of the Sanitary Acts these expenses have been paid out of the borough rate, the expenses continue to be so paid; and in an urban district which was formerly subject to an Improvement Act, the expenses may be […]
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Streets
History of Local Government policy relating to Streets It may be convenient to state that the expression “street” is here used in a sense much wider than its ordinary meaning. It is defined by the act to include any highway and any public bridge (not being a county bridge), and any road, […]
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District Councils
History Before the year 1848 there was not outside the municipal boroughs any system of district government in England. It is true that in some populous places which were not corporate boroughs local acts of parliament had been passed appointing improvement commissioners for the government of […]
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Borough Council
History The municipal borough and the Borough Council A municipal borough is a place which has been incorporated by royal charter. In the year 1835 the Municipal Corporations Act was passed, which made provision for the constitution and government of certain boroughs which were enumerated in […]
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Urban District
History The municipal borough and the Borough Council A municipal borough is a place which has been incorporated by royal charter. In the year 1835 the Municipal Corporations Act was passed, which made provision for the constitution and government of certain boroughs which were enumerated in […]