The State of Victoria, Australia, for example, has enacted a Bus Safety Act which contains performance-based duties of care which apply to all industry participants who are in a position to influence the safety of bus operations-what is called the ' chain of responsibility '.

In 2009, the Australian state of Victoria enacted a ban on splitting the tongues of minors.

The Act of Union, formally the The British North America Act, 1840 ( 3 & 4 Victoria, c. 35 ), was enacted in July 1840 and proclaimed 10 February 1841.

This legislation was closely modelled on a law passed in Victoria, the Community Protection Act 1990 ( Vic ), which was enacted to authorise ' preventive detention ' for Garry David.

The GSCC was set up in 2001 further to the Care Standards Act 2000, which was enacted partly in response to criticisms in the late 1990s of social services in Britain, in particular the high-profile case of Victoria Climbié, a young girl who was abused and eventually killed by her relatives in north London despite having been known to local social services.

The Aboriginal Protection Act, enacted in 1869 by the colony of Victoria, Australia gave extensive powers over the lives of Aboriginal people to the government's Board for the Protection of Aborigines, including regulation of residence, employment and marriage.

Victoria enacted the Aboriginal Protection Act while democratic reforms were being introduced for the white population, such as the extension of the franchise from the wealthy to all adult males and the provision of free public education.

In Victoria on 21 December 2011, legislation was passed by the Victorian Parliament allowing new trials where there is " fresh and compelling DNA evidence, where the person acquitted subsequently admits to the crime, or where it becomes clear that key witnesses have given false evidence ".

Kennett's perceived antipathy to Baragwanath led to 1997 legislation to restructure the office of the Auditor-General and set up Audit Victoria.

In Quebec, the same day was, since the Quiet Revolution, unofficially known as Fête de Dollard until 2003, when provincial legislation officially named the same date as Victoria Day the National Patriots ' Day.

The birthday of Queen Victoria was a day for celebration in Canada long before Confederation, with the first legislation regarding the event being in 1845 passed by the parliament of the Province of Canada to officially recognize May 24 as the Queen's birthday.

Victoria Day is not a paid public holiday in New Brunswick, but is a prescribed day of rest on which retail businesses must be closed ; Newfoundland and Labrador, but is a government holiday ; Nova Scotia, where it is also not a designated retail closing day, but is considered a " non-statutory holiday ", and Prince Edward Island, although provincial legislation defines " holiday " to include Victoria Day.

Other announced policies and initiatives included: the introduction of federal government parenting classes for those parents deemed to be failing to adequately discipline their children ; a ban on food and drink advertising during children's television viewing hours ; the introduction of a national youth mentoring program ; the government distribution of free story books to the families of newborn children ; a federal ban on plastic shopping bags ; and the introduction of legislation to prohibit vilification on the basis of religious beliefs or sexual orientation, similar to laws adopted in the state of Victoria that some critics said had led to a restriction of free speech.

A Firearms Consultative Committee, established in 2005 in Victoria, led to several changes to firearms legislation that benefited handgun users and gun collectors.

Victoria was the first jurisdiction in the world to introduce compulsory seat belt legislation.

Enabling legislation was passed by the Government of New South Wales and Victoria was formally created a separate colony of the United Kingdom on 1 July 1851.

( Unfortunately for Australia, the legislation requiring the broad gauge had been noted in the colonies of Victoria and South Australia and some rolling-stock ordered.

However, in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Case ( Attorney-General ( Victoria ); Ex rel Dale v Commonwealth ) constitutional questions were raised about the validity of Commonwealth social security legislation based on s81.

Victoria faced the problem of ageing and inadequate transport legislation which failed to reflect modern policy.

In Quebec, Victoria Day was, since the Quiet Revolution, unofficially known as Fête de Dollard until 2003, when provincial legislation officially named the same date as Victoria Day the National Patriots ' Day.

Nevertheless the Cain government was able to pass more legislation than any previous Labor government in Victoria had done.

Large numbers of Chinese people were working on the Victorian goldfields and fewer on the smaller NSW fields in the mid 1850s, when major gold finds in NSW and the passing of more restrictive anti-Chinese legislation in Victoria resulted in thousands of miners moving across the border in 1859.

There is no compelling evidence to support the legend that lesbians were not included in similar legislation all across the Commonwealth because Queen Victoria refused to believe that they were capable of such behaviour.

The State of Victoria, Australia passed legislation in late 2009 to control hoon activities using recreational vessels.

The term has even begun to appear in the titles of legislation, for example the Transport Legislation Amendment ( Hoon Boating and Other Amendments ) Act 2009 of the State of Victoria.

Among the solutions to these problems were proposals for the state legal aid commissions to maintain " emergency funds " that could be used in major criminal cases ; the South Australian Criminal Law ( Legal Representation ) Act 2002, which was designed to allow the courts to seize a defendant's assets to prevent false claims under the Dietrich principle ; and the introduction of legislation in the Parliament of Victoria amending the Crimes Act 1958 to allow judges to directly order that legal aid funding be granted, rather than to simply order a stay.

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In archaeology, for example, the contributions of Frederick Haverfield and Reginald Smith to the various volumes of the Victoria County Histories raised the discipline from the status of an antiquarian pastime to that of the most valuable single tool of the early English historian.

The distinction of a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire was conferred upon him by Queen Victoria in 1897 ( and later Knight Grand Commander in 1902 by Edward VII ) and he received like recognition for his public services from the German Emperor, the Sultan of Turkey, the Shah of Persia and other potentates.

The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.

In 1838, the Nova Scotia Baptist Education Society founded Queen's College ( named for Queen Victoria ).

Again, due primarily to the VFL recruiting the best players, Victoria dominated interstate matches for three quarters of a century.

Ballet technique such as the turned out positions of the feet, however, lingered for over two centuries and past the end of the Victoria era.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

New Crowns for Old depicts Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria | Victoria an imperial crown in exchange for a royal one. Disraeli cultivated a public image of himself as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria the title “ Empress of India ”.

* A name used for a tank ( an armoured fighting vehicle ) in some works of speculative fiction, such as Harry Turtledove's books, and Victoria: An Empire Under the Sun.

Research conducted at the Victoria University of Wellington showed that breasts are often the first thing men look at, and for a longer time than other body parts.

However, the purchase of a Scottish estate by Victoria and Albert, and their adoption of Scottish architectural style, was very influential for the ongoing revival of Highland culture.

The royals decorated Balmoral with tartans and attended highland games at Braemar ; Queen Victoria expressed an affinity for Scotland, even professing herself to be a Jacobite.

During the European scramble for Africa, Queen Victoria signed a Treaty of Protection with the King and Chiefs of Akwa Akpa, known to Europeans as " Old Calabar ", on 10 September 1884.

The tower is locked during the school year and entering it is a Level 4 offense under the Victoria residence agreement for which the punishment is eviction from residence.

The Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879 saw a small British force repel an overwhelming attack by Zulu forces ; eleven Victoria Cross es were awarded for the defence.

Despite the setbacks, Chaplin was soon writing a new film script, The Freak, a story of a winged girl found in South America, which he intended as a starring vehicle for his daughter, Victoria Chaplin.

Victoria and New South Wales have yardings of up to 8, 000 weaners ( calves ) for auction sale in one day.

They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).

Armed with the knowledge of shock-metamorphic features, Carlyle S. Beals and colleagues at the Dominion Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Wolf von Engelhardt of the University of Tübingen in Germany began a methodical search for impact craters.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeremy Bentham, Florence Nightingale and even Queen Victoria are reputed to have stayed there, although there is no real evidence for this.