; Assaulting a person designated or accredited under sections 38 or 39 or 41 or 41A of the Police Reform Act 2002: This offence is created by section 46 ( 1 ) of the Police Reform Act 2002.

As part of a 1996 initiative to curb illegal immigration, Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act ( IIRIRA ) on September 30, 1996.

This was primarily a political strategy designed to give the Conservative party control of the reform process and the subsequent long-term benefits in the Commons, similar to those derived by the Whigs after their 1832 Reform Act.

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

After decades in opposition the Whigs came to power under Grey in 1830 and carried the First Reform Act in 1832.

The Reform Act was the climax of Whiggery but also brought about the Whigs ' demise.

The leading Radicals were John Bright and Richard Cobden, who represented the manufacturing towns that had gained representation under the Reform Act.

After a brief Conservative interlude ( during which the Second Reform Act was passed by agreement between the parties ), Gladstone won a huge victory at the 1868 election and formed the first Liberal government.

Among the consequences of the Third Reform Act ( 1884 – 85 ) was the giving of the vote to the Catholic peasants in Ireland, and the consequent creation of an Irish Parliamentary Party led by Charles Stewart Parnell.

A major long-term consequence of the Third Reform Act was the rise of Lib-Lab candidates, in the absence of any committed Labour Party.

The Third Reform Act also facilitated the demise of the Whig old guard: in two-member constituencies, it was common to pair a Whig and a radical under the Liberal banner.

After the Third Reform Act, fewer Whigs were selected as candidates.

Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.

After the Reform Act, which disenfranchised many of the rotten boroughs ( boroughs that had declined in importance, had only a small population, and had only a handful of eligible voters ), parliamentary constituencies began to diverge from the ancient boroughs.

While many ancient boroughs remained as municipal boroughs, they were disenfranchised by the Reform Act.

* Law Reform ( Contributory Negligence ) Act 1945

* Law Reform ( Personal Injuries ) Act 1948

Its notable victories were the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, the Reform Act of 1832, and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

A popular sweeping Land Reform Act, as well as American foreign aid during the 1950s, laid the foundation for Taiwan's economic success, becoming one of the Four Asian Tigers.

It should be noted, however, that the Class Action Fairness Act contains carve-outs for, ' inter alia ', shareholder class actions covered by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and those concerning internal corporate governance issues ( the latter typically being brought as shareholder derivative actions in the state courts of Delaware, the state of incorporation of most large corporations ).

In the 1919 elections, Reform further strengthened its position, despite the emergence of a single united Labour Party.

He was knighted by King Edward, in 1902 for his service to Canadian literature, and in succeeding years continually strengthened his position in the party, particularly by his energetic work on behalf of Tariff Reform and Imperial Preference.

However, the Conservatives were still a minority in the House of Commons, and the passage of the Reform Bill required the calling of new election once the new voting register had been compiled.

In 1994, Olson became chief investigative counsel for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

On 16 January 1996, Premier Bob Carr announced that the next Governor would be Gordon Samuels, that he would not live or work at Government House and that he would retain his appointment as Chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission.

In 1832, John Russell had been nicknamed " Finality John " because of his statement that the 1832 Reform Act had just been approved by both the House of Commons and the House of Lords would be the " final " expansion of the vote in Britain.

While the Whigs were still part of the Opposition under the minority government of the Earl of Derby, John Russell had said, in January 1852, that he intended to introduce a new Reform bill into the House of Commons which would equalize the populations of the districts from which members of Parliament were elected.

* In 1998, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee voted to cite Reno for contempt of Congress for not turning over documents during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.

Reflecting its philosophical position, Reform Judaism, unlike Conservative Judaism, has altered the traditional prayers to refer to " redemption " rather than a " redeemer " and removed petitions for restoration of the House of David.

Cromwell knew " that if the Reform Bill should be suffered to pass, and a House of Commons be convened, freely elected on popular principles, and constituting a full and fair and equal representation, it would be impossible ever after to overthrow the liberties of the people, or break down the government of the country.

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

On 1 March 1831, Lord John Russell brought forward the Reform Bill in the House of Commons on the government's behalf.

The Reform Bill was again brought before the House of Commons, which agreed to the second reading by a large majority in July.

After the Reform Bill was rejected in the Lords, the House of Commons immediately passed a motion of confidence affirming their support for Lord Grey's administration.

The party was the successor to the Reform Party of Canada and inherited its position as the Official Opposition in the House of Commons and held it throughout its existence.

Mark J. Pelavin, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, objected to court stripping in regards to the Pledge of Allegiance, " Today's House adoption of the so-called " Pledge Protection Act " is a shameful effort to strip our federal courts of their ability to uphold the rights of all Americans.

Because the opposition vote in the rest of Canada was split between the Reform Party, the Progressive Conservative Party, and the New Democratic Party, the Bloc narrowly won the second largest number of seats in the House of Commons, and therefore became the official opposition.

The Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 (), also known as the ' Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act ' ( in the Senate ) and ' Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act ' ( in the House ) and more commonly called Sarbanes – Oxley, Sarbox or SOX, is a United States federal law that set new or enhanced standards for all U. S. public company boards, management and public accounting firms.

Part 3 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which came into force on 1 October 2009, abolished the judicial functions of the House of Lords ( except on impeachment ), and transferred them to a new body, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

However, under Section 24 of the Law Reform ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Scotland Act 1990, suitably qualified solicitors were for the first time in Scotland granted rights of audience in the Supreme Courts in Scotland as well as in the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as solicitor advocates.

Between their incorporation in the 16th century ( East Looe 1571, West Looe 1553 ) and the Great Reform Act of 1832, West Looe and East Looe were renowned examples of rotten boroughs, each returning two MPs to the unreformed House of Commons, despite their tiny populations.

* Nancy-Ann DeParle ( b. 1956 ), Rhodes Scholar, American expert on health care issues and director of White House Office of Health Reform.

The issue of Tariff Reform had now became overshadowed by the revived threat of Home Rule for Ireland, as the Parliament Act 1911 effectively stripped the House of Lords of its ability to veto it, while leaving it with delaying powers.

A founder of the Minnesota Reform Party, Barkley ran for the U. S. House in 1992, a run inspired by Ross Perot's presidential campaign.

After the Unionists had failed to win an electoral mandate at either of the General Elections of 1910 ( despite softening the Tariff Reform policy with Balfour's promise of a referendum on food taxes ), the Unionist peers split to allow the Parliament Act to pass the House of Lords, in order to prevent a mass-creation of new Liberal peers by the new King, George V. The exhausted Balfour resigned as party leader after the crisis, and was succeeded in late 1911 by Andrew Bonar Law.