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SI 2008
This is an incomplete list of statutory instruments of the United Kingdom in 2008. 1–100 * Insolvency Practitioners and Insolvency Services Account (Fees) (Amendment) Order 2008S.I. 2008/3 * Information as to Provision of Education (England) Regulations 2008S.I. 2008/4 * Immigration and Police (Passenger, Crew and Service Information) Order 2008S.I. 2008/5 * Textile Products (Indications of Fibre Content) (Amendment) Regulations 2008S.I. 2008/6 * Non-Domestic Rating (Demand Notices) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2008S.I. 2008/7 * Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (Data Sharing Code of Practice) Order 2008S.I. 2008/8 * Transfrontier Shipment of Waste (Amendment) Regulations 2008S.I. 2008/9 * Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4 and Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (Wales) (Amendment No.1) Order 2008S.I. 2008/10 * Trade Marks and Trade Marks (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2008S.I. 2008/11 * Jobseeker's Allowance (Joint Claims) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welfare Reform Act 2007
The Welfare Reform Act 2007 (c.5) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which alters the British social security system. A number of sections come into force two months after royal assent and the first commencement order made under the Act specified that section 31 came into force on 1 November 2007. The green paper The green paper is available as a .pdf document from the links at the end of the article. The Government's objectives for the Act, as stated in the green paper were to: *Reach 80% employment amongst all people of working age (it was just shy of 75% when the paper was released). *To reduce the numbers claiming incapacity benefit by 1 million (from 2.7 million at the time). This was later stated to be achieved "within a decade" Hutton, Parliamentary debate on Green Paper. *To help 300,000 lone parents back into work. *To increase the number of older workers, aged fifty or over, in work by 1 million. Provisions, aims and criticisms of the Act The Act is w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traffic Management Act 2004
The Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sets out how road networks should be managed by local authorities and includes regulations for roadworks. The Act has been implemented from 1 April 2008 across the United Kingdom. Part 2 - Network Management This section sets out the network management duty to "secure the expeditious movement of traffic", which is defined as pedestrians as well as vehicles. Parts 3 and 4 - Permits and Street Works All the parties interested in occupying streets/highways need to follow the specified guidelines. The main highlights are as follows: *Effective communication between highway authorities and parties interested in carrying out street work *Powers given to highway authorities to impose fixed charges in case of any failure to follow the guidelines *Disciplined approach and advance communication to plan the street works *Introduction of web services for communication *Introduction of Level 3 Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Children Act 2004
The Children Act 2004 (c. 31) is an Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The Act amended the Children Act 1989, largely in consequence of the Murder of Victoria Climbié, Victoria Climbié inquiry. The Act is now the basis for most official administration that is considered helpful to children, notably bringing all local government functions of children's welfare and education under the statutory authority of local Directors of Children's Services. The Act also created the ContactPoint database; this, however, has since been axed. Purpose The Act was created with a certain set of goals. Its primary purpose was to give boundaries and help for local authorities and/or other entities to better regulate official intervention in the interests of children. History The long history of children's welfare legislation had given rise to numerous unco-ordinated official powers and functions, even within the same local authorities, resultin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribunals, Courts And Enforcement Act 2007
The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (c. 15) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It provides for several diverse matters relating to the law, some of them being significant changes to the structure of the courts and fundamental legal procedures. Part 1 provides a scheme for radical overhaul of the tribunal system in the UK, creating a new unified structure with two new tribunals to embrace the former fragmented scheme, along with a Senior President of Tribunals. Part 2 defines new criteria for appointment as a judge, generally reducing the length of experience required with the aim of increasing diversity in the judiciary. Part 3 creates a new system of taking control of goods in order to enforce judgments and abolishes ancient common law writs and remedies such as '' fieri facias'', ''replevin'' and distress for rent. It introduces a modern system of 'certified enforcement agents' and 'exempted enforcement agents' which includes civil servants such as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Criminal Justice Act 2003
The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It is a wide-ranging measure introduced to modernise many areas of the criminal justice system in England and Wales and, to a lesser extent, in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Large portions of the act were repealed and replaced by the Sentencing Act 2020.Sentencing Act 2020 s. 413 & sch. 28 It amends the law relating to powers, bail, disclosure, allocation of |
Companies Act 2006
The Companies Act 2006 (c. 46) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which forms the primary source of UK company law. The act was brought into force in stages, with the final provision being commenced on 1 October 2009. It largely superseded the Companies Act 1985. The act provides a comprehensive code of company law for the United Kingdom, and made changes to almost every facet of the law in relation to companies. The key provisions are: * the act codifies certain existing common law principles, such as those relating to directors' duties. * it transposes into UK law the Takeover Directive and the Transparency Directive of the European Union * it introduces various new provisions for private and public companies. * it applies a single company law regime across the United Kingdom, replacing the two separate (if identical) systems for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. * it otherwise amends or restates almost all of the Companies Act 1985 to varying degrees ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pensions Act 2004
The Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to improve the running of pension schemes. Background In the years following the introduction of the Pensions Act 1995, it was widely perceived that it was failing to offer the protection to pension scheme members that had been anticipated. The Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority was perceived as being reactive, didactic and uncommercial. The minimum funding requirement had not prevented some pension schemes winding up with insufficient assets to secure their liabilities, amid considerable publicity. There was strong political pressure to establish a guarantee fund similar to the American Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Much of the regulation was perceived to be unnecessarily restrictive. The Pensions Act 2004 was written to try to fix these deficiences. The Act introduced two new regulatory institutions: the Pensions Regulator, with the powers to require sponsoring companies to mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Administration Act 2006
The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (c. 22) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, passed on 11 July 2006. Among its main provisions, the act: * Provides a legislative framework for setting up a "Coordinated Online Record of Electors", known as "CORE", to co-ordinate electoral registration information across regions. * Creates new criminal offences for supplying false electoral registration details or for failure to supply such details. * Allows people to register anonymously on electoral registers if a 'safety test' is passed. * Requires local authorities to review all polling stations, and to provide a report on the reviews to the Electoral Commission. * Provides for the making of signature and date of birth checks on postal vote applications. * Revises the law on "undue influence". * Allows observers to monitor elections (with the exception of Scottish local government elections, which are the responsibility of the Scottish Parliament). * Reduces the age of can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prevention Of Terrorism Act 2005
The Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 (c 2) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, intended to deal with the Law Lords' ruling of 16 December 2004 that the detention without trial of eight foreigners (known as the 'Belmarsh 8') at HM Prison Belmarsh under Part 4 of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 was unlawful, being incompatible with European (and, thus, domestic) human rights laws. The Act allowed the Home Secretary to impose "control orders" on people who were suspected of involvement in terrorism, which in some cases may have derogated (opted out) from human rights laws. As yet, no derogating control orders have been obtained under s.4 of the relevant Act. In April 2006, a High Court judge issued a declaration that section 3 of the Act was incompatible with the right to a fair trial under article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The system of control orders was described by Mr Justice Sullivan as an "affront to ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Act 1997
The Police Act 1997 (c. 50) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament passed on 21 March 1997. Its main purposes are: *to make provision for the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) and the National Crime Squad; *to make provision about entry onto, and interference with, property and with wireless telegraphy for the prevention or detection of serious crime; *to make provision for the Police Information Technology Organisation; *to provide for the issue of criminal record certificates; *to address aspects of the administration and organisation of the police; and *to repeal certain legislation relating to the rehabilitation of offenders. The case of R v. Khan (1996), which was heard by the House of Lords, was one on the factors leading to the regulation of police powers embodied in this legislation. The function of the NCIS was to gather and analyse intelligence data in order to provide insight and intelligence to national police forces. Its role was later taken over by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courts And Legal Services Act 1990
The Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41) was an Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed the legal profession and courts of England and Wales. The act was the culmination of a series of reports and reforms that started with the Benson Commission in the 1970s, and significantly changed the way that the legal profession and court system worked. The changes introduced in the act covered a variety of areas. Important changes were made to the Judiciary of England and Wales, judiciary, particularly in terms of appointments, judicial pensions and the introduction of Judiciary of England and Wales#District judges, district judges, the arbitration process of Alternative Dispute Resolution and the procedure in the courts, particularly in terms of the distribution of civil business between the High Court of Justice, High Court and the County Court (England and Wales), county courts. The most significant changes were made in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
