The latest major change in this program was introduced by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, Title 8, of which amended the George-Barden Act.

* 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.

Cross, the Home Secretary, Disraeli's government introduced various reforms, including the Artisan's and Labourers ' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, the Public Health Act 1875, the Sale of Food and Drugs Act ( 1875 ), and the Education Act ( 1876 ).

His government also introduced a new Factory Act meant to protect workers, the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 to allow peaceful picketing, and the Employers and Workmen Act ( 1875 ) to enable workers to sue employers in the civil courts if they broke legal contracts.

A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

* Benefit Crystallisation Event-a term introduced by the UK Finance Act 2004

The party became divided over the distinctly illiberal policies that were introduced under her auspices, including conscription and the Defence of the Realm Act.

In 1963 a new Act of Parliament introduced administrative reforms.

The Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 has introduced new standards of accountability on boards of U. S. companies or companies listed on U. S. stock exchanges.

The Electricity Act 1947 introduced better retirement benefits for workers in that industry, and a Workers ’ Compensation ( Supplementation ) Act was passed in 1948 that introduced benefits for workers with certain asbestos-related diseases which had occurred before 1948.

The Trades Disputes Act 1927 was repealed, and a Dock Labour Scheme was introduced in 1947 to put an end to the casual system of hiring labour in the docks, Wages for members of the police force were significantly increased.

The concept of Commonwealth citizenship was introduced in 1948 in the British Nationality Act 1948.

The Emergency Conservation Work ( ECW ) Act was introduced to Congress the same day and enacted by voice vote on the 31st.

At Atchison's request, Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which embodied this idea, in November 1853.

The MFP began lobbying Congress in 1990, and in 1991 Senator Brock Adams ( D-Washington ) and Rep. Barbara Boxer introduced the Military Freedom Act, legislation to end the ban completely.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

Act three begins with Cora at her house with her council.

On September 21, 1996, barely three years after the " Don't Ask, Don't Tell " imbroglio, and further straining relations with the LGBT community, Clinton signed into law the Defense of Marriage Act ( DOMA ), which defines marriage as the legal union of one man and one woman.

She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ) with Dirk Bogarde, Helen of Troy ( 1954 ), in which she was understudy for the title role but appears only as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love ( 1954 ) with Kirk Douglas.

However, the limitations of the 1844 Act only affected banks in England and Wales, and today three commercial banks in Scotland and four in Northern Ireland continue to issue their own sterling banknotes, regulated by the Bank of England.

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

Canada Day () is the national day of Canada, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act, 1867 ( today called the Constitution Act, 1867, in Canada ), which united three colonies into a single country called Canada within the British Empire.

The Congress established three key objectives for monetary policy — maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates — in the Federal Reserve Act.

The passing of the Tokoi Senate bill, called the " Power Act ," in July 1917 became the first one of the three culminations of the power struggle between the Social Democrats and the conservatives during the political crisis from March 1917 to the end of January 1918.

The Act authorized the President to appoint three commissioners to survey and acquire property for this seat.

In October James gave orders for the lords lieutenants in the provinces to provide three standard questions to all members of the Commission of the Peace: would they consent to the repeal of the Test Act and the penal laws ; would they assist candidates who would do so ; and they were requested to accept the Declaration of Indulgence.

The Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984 and the Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988 provide for penalties for illegal insider trading to be as high as three times the profit gained or the loss avoided from the illegal trading.

Sen. Stephen A. Douglas and former Illinois Congressman Abraham Lincoln aired their disagreement over the Kansas – Nebraska Act in three public speeches during September and October 1854.

and can be prosecuted for fare evasion under the Regulation of Railways Act 1889, under which they are subject to a fine of up to £ 1, 000 or three months ' imprisonment.

According to statistics obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the average commuter on the Metropolitan line in 2006 wasted three days, 10 hours and 25 minutes due to delays.

The London Passenger Transport Act 1933 removed responsibility for of tram route from the London County Council, three county boroughs and a number of other local authorities in the Greater London area.

This Triennial Act required that Parliament was to be summoned at least once every three years, and that when the King failed to issue proper summons, the members could assemble on their own.

There are three sources of Law: Acts of Parliament called Statutes, Statutory Regulations ( made by a Secretary of State under an Act of Parliament ) and Case Law ( developed by various Courts ).

This Act modified the Judiciary Act of 1789 in establishing ten new district courts, expanding the number of circuit courts from three to six, and adding additional judges to each circuit, giving the President the authority to appoint Federal judges and justices of the peace.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

The National Environmental Policy Act ( 1969 ), the Clean Air Act ( 1970 ), the Clean Water Act ( 1972 ), and the Endangered Species Act ( 1973 ) all were enacted with broad bipartisan support, and ultimately signed into law by Republican President Richard Nixon.

* 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U. S. federal court as too broad.

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition,, further upheld these rights by invalidating the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996, holding that, because the act " rohibit child pornography that does not depict an actual child ..." it was overly broad and unconstitutional under the First Amendment and that:

* July 29 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act ( 1996 ) is struck down as too broad by a U. S. federal court.

* July – Public Health Act establishes Boards of Health across England and Wales, the nation's first public health law, giving cities broad authority to build modern sanitary systems.

In 1971, however, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act, requiring broad disclosure of campaign finance.

The Pure Food and Drug Act, enacted on the same day in 1906, also gave the government broad jurisdiction over food in interstate commerce.

They also stated that the proposed Act is consistent with the basic principle that grants the Congress broad discretion to establish procedures to govern its internal operations.

The Clark government introduced Bill C-15, the Freedom of Information Act, which established a broad right of access to government records, an elaborate scheme of exemptions, and a two-stage review process.

In a lengthy dissent, Justice Thomas argued that the plain meaning of Section 2 removed " any doubt regarding its broad scope, the Amendment simplified the language of the Webb-Kenyon Act and made it clear that States could regulate importation destined for in-state delivery free of negative Commerce Clause restraints.

In the United States, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 codified the legal definition of this term and invested the U. S. President with broad discretion to determine whether a person may be designated an unlawful enemy combatant under United States law.

In recognition of the broad curricula offered, grammar schools were redesignated as high schools by the Act to Improve the Common and Grammar Schools of the Province of Ontario of 1871.

While Yates did not overrule Dennis, it rendered the broad conspiracy provisions of the Smith Act unenforceable.

In November 2010, anticipating the possible indictment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Act, critics of that legal strategy said that the broad language of the Act could make news organizations and anyone who reported, printed, or disseminated information from Wikileaks subject to prosecution as well.

This pamphlet, with its broad distribution and criticism of taxation and Parliament, was directed primarily at the Stamp Act, and helped build Hopkins ' reputation as a revolutionary leader.

He sponsored the Broad Gauge Act which encouraged the use of waggons with broad wheels instead of narrow-tired drays in order to cause less wear on public roads ; this measure made him unpopular with the farmers and carriers in his electorate and he lost his seat.

The service's function under Section 8 of the Act is to ' promote te reo Māori me nga tikanga Māori through the provision of a high quality, cost-effective Māori television service, in both Māori and English, that informs, educates, and entertains a broad viewing audience, and, in doing so, enriches New Zealand's society, culture, and heritage.

The West Cornwall Railway Act included a clause that it would be converted to broad gauge once it had been connected to another broad gauge line, but the company could not raise the funds to do so.