In the 1945-46 session alone, pensions and other benefits were substantially increased, and from 1945 to 1948, over 200 public Acts of Parliament were passed, with eight major pieces of legislation placed on the statute book in 1946 alone.

Among the most important pieces of legislation was the National Insurance Act 1946, in which people in work paid a flat rate of national insurance.

Various other pieces of legislation provided for child benefit and support for people with no other source of income.

In 1982, a radical liberalization of the law on cable was proposed by the Information Technology Advisory Panel, for the sake of promoting a new generation of broadband cable systems leading to the wired society After setting up and receiving the conclusions of the Hunt Inquiry into Cable Expansion and Broadcasting Policy, the Government decided to proceed with liberalization and two pieces of legislation: the Cable and Broadcasting Act and the Telecommunications Act, were enacted in 1984.

The Fifth Monarchists were also a significant opponent to the Rump Parliament and leading Fifth Monarchists like Vavasor Powell were annoyed at the Rump's failure to renew certain pieces of legislation, such as the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, because they believed that the Rump was not fulfilling what the Fifth Monarchists perceived to be its aim, that is to turn England into a more ' godly ' nation.

In the wake of the bombing the U. S. government enacted several pieces of legislation, notably the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.

While the United Kingdom has no codified constitution, relying on a number of legal conventions and pieces of legislation, it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights which covers both human rights and civil liberties.

According to historian Robert Nisbet Bain, it was one of Elizabeth ’ s “ chief glories that, so far as she was able, she put a stop to that mischievous contention of rival ambitions at Court, which had disgraced the reigns of Peter II, Anne and Ivan VI, and enabled foreign powers to freely interfere in the domestic affairs of Russia .” She was also deeply religious, passing several pieces of legislation that undid much of the work her father had done to limit the power of the church.

The new Federal Parliament, as one of its first pieces of legislation, passed the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 to " place certain restrictions on immigration and ... for the removal ... of prohibited immigrants ".

An abrogative referendum has never been held and, if invoked and successful, can abrogate pieces of legislation barring some exceptions, notably financial and constitutional law.

In the 1930s, the Supreme Court struck down many pieces of Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, including the Railroad Retirement Act.

Beginning with a set of decisions in March, April, and May, 1937 ( including the Social Security Act cases ), the Court would sustain a series of New Deal legislation .... Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the court's majority would uphold it.

It is one of the oldest pieces of Australian legislation and has been amended over 70 times.

The various pieces of legislation used for legally protecting heritage assets from damage and destruction are grouped under the term ‘ designation ’.

The Treaty itself has never been ratified or enacted as statute law in New Zealand, although it does appear in authoritative collections of treaties, and is sometimes referred to in specific pieces of legislation.

Numerous pieces of legislation were vetoed or altered by amendments between 1906 and 1909, leading David Lloyd George to remark that the Lords had become " not the watchdog of the Constitution, but Mr. Balfour's poodle.

Major pieces of legislation:

During his last government, two important pieces of housing legislation were enacted.

The parliament of New Zealand has rejected two pieces of legislation regarding the use of assisted suicide for terminally ill patients.

( formely known as the " Safe Streets and Communities Act ") The bill combines more than 10 different pieces of previously unpassed criminal legislation, as well as proposing to amend the Criminal Code of Canada with respect to drug offences.

The Act of Uniformity itself is one of four crucial pieces of legislation, known as the Clarendon Code, named after Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Charles ' Lord Chancellor.

This kind of Order in Council tends to be reserved for the most important pieces of subordinate legislation, and its use is likely to become more common.

Khatami presented the so called " twin bills " to the parliament during his term in office, these two pieces of proposed legislation would have introduced small but key changes to the national election laws of Iran and also presented a clear definition of the president's power to prevent constitutional violations by state institutions.

Following an extensive public hearing process organised by the CRTC, the MAPL system, created by Stan Klees ( co-creator of the Juno Award ), was adopted in 1971 to define and identify Canadian content in pieces of music for the purposes of increasing exposure of Canadian music on Canadian radio through content regulations governing a percentage ( 25 %) of airplay to be devoted to Canadian music.

The EEA-wide laws governing the SCE legal form consist of two pieces of EU legislation:

If a landowner owns an acre of land, for instance, and wants to divide it into three pieces, a surveyor would have to take precise measurements of the land and submit the survey to the governing body, which would then have to approve it.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino ( 1797 ) by works from the Vatican, such as Laocoön and His Sons and the Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a " sign of popular sovereignty ".

Napoleon's campaigns acquired Italian pieces by treaties, as war reparations, and Northern European pieces as spoils as well as some antiquities excavated in Egypt, though the vast majority of the latter were seized as war reparations by the British army and are now part of collections of the British Museum.

The object hit ground at the Northern Basin, creating a mountain of fire about 10 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers long, and scattered off pieces that went downrange to form the Twins and the Drop.

He recorded vocal pieces for Northern Irish DJ and musician David Holmes's album Bow Down to the Exit Sign.

The official start of construction took place on March 8, 1942 after hundreds of pieces of construction equipment were moved on priority trains by the Northern Alberta Railways to the northeastern part of British Columbia near Mile 0 at Dawson Creek.

Pingyao Zhuan ( 平妖傳 ) is a ghost story attributed to Luo with 20 chapters, developed from the original pieces of storytelling based on a rebellion at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and later expanded by Feng Menglong ( 馮夢龍 ) into 40 chapters.

There are effectively two separate mainline railway systems in the United Kingdom-the Great Britain system and the Northern Ireland system, which are regulated operate separately and are constituted under separate pieces of legislation.

The 545 individual pieces of Cornish granite were cut using sophisticated computer-guided cutting machines by S. McConnell & Sons, in Kilkeel, Northern Ireland.

Many pieces even saw service with German forces fighting in Northern Italy from 1943 until the end of the war, as the 7. 5 cm Feldkanone 244 ( i ).

His best-known pieces include the Pulitzer-winning, Shakespeare-inspired Tempest Fantasy, a 30-minute chamber work scored for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano, which was premiered on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library in New York City by David Krakauer and Trio Solisti, for whom it was written ; Northern Lights Electric, a 1994 work that combines a musical illustration of the Northern Lights with a musical depiction of electric light ; and the 1998 cantata Fire / Ice / Air, which contrasts the journeys of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on his expedition to the Antarctic, and Charles Lindbergh, on his trans-Atlantic flight.

It's no wonder that Confederate artillerist Maj. Robert Stiles wrote, " This battle of Winchester ... was one of the most perfect pieces of work the Army of Northern Virginia ever did.

The idea of the Letter was to try to explain the complexities of Northern Ireland, slowly, regularly and in short bite-size pieces over a long, long period of time.

Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions Rex Wild said in court there are three pieces of evidence linking Murdoch to the scene of the crime.

Geologically, Sangay marks the southern bound of the Northern Volcanic Zone, and its position straddling two major pieces of crust accounts for its high level of activity.

The two men both hung tight while the rest of the Army of Northern Virginia fell to pieces during the summer of 1917, and shared a whiskey when the cease-fire went into effect.

Since his return from Holland he has mainly been a Classical composer, having written three Operas, several orchestral and ensemble pieces, and also works recorded by: the Arditti String Quartet, the Galliard Ensemble, the Royal Scottish Academy Brass and The Northern Sinfonia among others.

Northern singers and writers often used it for parody or as a quotation in other pieces to establish a person or setting as Southern.