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British Film Institute Act 1949
The British Film Institute Act 1949 (1949 c. 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It allows the government to fund the British Film Institute. Provisions The Act has only one operative section which allowed HM Treasury, the Treasury to make grants to the British Film Institute out of Parliament-approved funds. This was in addition to any grants from the Cinematograph Fund established under the Sunday Entertainments Act 1932. Amendments The Act was amended by the Sunday Cinema Act 1972 to remove the reference to the Cinematograph Fund, as it was being winding up, wound up. Timetable The Act had its second reading in the House of Commons on 6 May 1949. It was passed to the House of Lords on 16 May, and had its second reading there on 25 May. The Act was given royal assent on 31 May 1949. See also *List of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, 1940–1959 References United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1949 British Film Institute 1949 in British cine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenvil Hall
150px, Hall, 1951 William George Glenvil Hall (4 April 1887 – 13 October 1962) was a British barrister and Labour politician. He was elected at the 1929 general election as Member of Parliament (MP) for Portsmouth Central, but lost his seat two years later at the 1931 election, when Labour split over the formation of the National Government. He returned to the House of Commons in 1939, at a by-election in the Colne Valley constituency, and held the seat until he died in office in 1962, aged 75. In Clement Attlee's post-war government, he served as Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1945 to 1950, and was made a Privy Councillor in 1947. After leaving government in 1950, he served as chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party In UK politics, the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) is the parliamentary group of the Labour Party in Parliament, i.e. Labour MPs as a collective body. Commentators on the British Constitution sometimes draw a distinction between the Labou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |