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Petroleum Act 1871
The Petroleum Act 1871 ( 34 & 35 Vict. c. 105) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate the storage and transport of petroleum and similar substances. Background The storage and transport of petroleum and petroleum products had been controlled by the Petroleum Acts 1862 to 1868. By 1871 the provisions of these Acts required to be updated; the 1871 Act was intended to enact these requirements. The Petroleum Act 1862 and the Petroleum Act 1868 were wholly repealed by the 1871 Act. Petroleum Act 1871 The Petroleum Act 1871 received royal assent on 21 August 1871. Its long title is 'An Act for the safe keeping of petroleum and other substances of a like nature'. Provisions The Act comprises 18 sections and two schedules: * Section 1. Short title of Act * Section 2. Interpretation of certain terms in the Act * Section 3. Definition of Petroleum and application of Act * Section 4. Bye-laws as to ship carrying petroleum * Section 5. Notice by owner or mast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Short Title
In certain jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom and other Westminster-influenced jurisdictions (such as Canada or Australia), as well as the United States and the Philippines, primary legislation has both a short title and a long title. The long title (properly, the title in some jurisdictions) is the formal title appearing at the head of a statute (such as an act of Parliament or of Congress) or other legislative instrument. The long title is intended to provide a summarised description of the purpose or scope of the instrument. Like other descriptive components of an act (such as the preamble, section headings, side notes, and short title), the long title seldom affects the operative provisions of an act, except where the operative provisions are unclear or ambiguous and the long title provides a clear statement of the legislature's intention. The short title is the formal name by which legislation may by law be cited. It contrasts with the long title which, while usual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
34 & 35 Vict
34 may refer to: * 34 (number), the natural number following 33 and preceding 35 * one of the years 34 BC, AD 34, 1934, 2034 * 34 (album), ''34'' (album), a 2015 album by Dre Murray * 34 (song), "#34" (song), a 1994 song by Dave Matthews Band * "34", a 2006 song by Saves the Day from ''Sound the Alarm (Saves the Day album), Sound the Alarm'' * +34, the international calling code for Spain * "Thirty Four", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Almost Heathen'', 2001 See also * 3/4 (other) * Rule 34 (other) * List of highways numbered 34 {{Numberdis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petroleum Act 1862
The Petroleum Act 1862 ( 25 & 26 Vict. c. 66) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the safe-keeping of petroleum. Background The large-scale production of petroleum began in the United States in 1859 from oil wells in Pennsylvania. Within two years petroleum was being imported into the UK. It was estimated that in the year 1862 about 9 million gallons (40,915 m3) of petroleum oil was imported from the United States. Concerns about the safe storage of petroleum and some of its flammable products, and the associated risks of fire and explosion, led to the passing of the UK's first Petroleum Act in 1862.The ''Petroleum Act 1862'' (25 & 26 Vict. c. 66) Petroleum Act 1862 The Petroleum Act 1862 received royal assent on 29 July 1862. Its preamble reads 'whereas it is expedient to provide for the safe-keeping of petroleum and certain products thereof that are dangerous to life and property, from their properties of giving off inflammable vapours at low temperatures. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petroleum Act 1868
The Petroleum Act 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 56) is an Act of Parliament (UK), Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to amend the Petroleum Act 1862 relating to the licensing, storage and sale of petroleum and petroleum products. Background The original Petroleum Act 1862 was found to be defective. A Parliamentary Committee on Fire Protection had been established in 1867, to 'inquire into the existing legislative provisions for the protection of life and property against fires in the United Kingdom, and as to the best means for ascertaining the causes and preventing the frequency of fires'.Fires Bill, House of Commons Debates 13 March 1872 vol 209 cc1886-902 Evidence given to the committee indicated that the Petroleum Act 1862 was inoperative; the committee's fourth (of four) recommendation was that the existing law should be amended to correct this deficiency. This was enacted through the provisions of the Act of 1868. The Petroleum Act 1868 The Petroleum Act 1868 receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petroleum Act 1879
The Petroleum Act 1879 ( 42 & 43 Vict. c. 47) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which continued and amended the Petroleum Act 1871. Background The storage and transport of petroleum and petroleum products had been controlled by the Petroleum Acts 1862 to 1871. By 1879 the provisions of the 1871 Act needed to be updated. The Petroleum Act 1871 was time-limited, it expired on 1 October 1872 (1871 Act Section 18). The 1871 Act was continued by annual statutes until 1879. Section 4 of the Petroleum Act 1879 enacted that the 1871 Act shall continue in force until otherwise directed by Parliament. The Petroleum Act 1871 had defined petroleum as a substance that gives off an inflammable vapour at less than 100 °F (37.8 °C). It was expedient to apply a more stringent standard and to redefine petroleum as that which gives off an inflammable vapour at less than 73 °F (22.8 °C). The test equipment and test methods required to determine the flamma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928
The Petroleum (Consolidation) Act 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5 c. 32) is a UK Act of Parliament to consolidate the enactments relating to petroleum and petroleum-spirit. It specified and updated the conditions for the granting of licenses for keeping petroleum spirit; the labelling of containers for petroleum spirit; its transport; and regulations for certain uses. Background The Petroleum Act 1871 was still the principal Act controlling the licensing, storage and use of petroleum and petroleum products in the late 1920s. It was recognised that considerable changes had taken place since 1871 in the use of petroleum such as the development of the motor car and the increased use of petrol by the public. It had also become difficult for local authorities to administer the law as it was distributed over a number of Acts, and partly because the Act of 1871 was seen as not being well drafted and difficulties had arisen over interpretation. The original Petroleum Act 1862 defined Petroleum Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
34 & 35 Vict
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34 may refer to: * 34 (number), the natural number following 33 and preceding 35 * one of the years 34 BC, AD 34, 1934, 2034 * ''34'' (album), a 2015 album by Dre Murray * "#34" (song), a 1994 song by Dave Matthews Band * "34", a 2006 song by Saves the Day from '' Sound the Alarm'' * +34, the international calling code for Spain * "Thirty Four", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Almost Heathen'', 2001 See also * 3/4 (other) * Rule 34 (other) * List of highways numbered 34 The following highways are numbered 34: for a list of roads numbered N34 : see list of N34 roads. International * Asian Highway 34 * European route E34 Australia * Cox Peninsula Road (Northern Territory) * (Sydney) * Maroondah Highway (Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of The United Kingdom
The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative supremacy and thereby ultimate power over all other political bodies in the UK and the overseas territories. Parliament is bicameral but has three parts, consisting of the sovereign ( King-in-Parliament), the House of Lords, and the House of Commons (the primary chamber). In theory, power is officially vested in the King-in-Parliament. However, the Crown normally acts on the advice of the prime minister, and the powers of the House of Lords are limited to only delaying legislation; thus power is ''de facto'' vested in the House of Commons. The House of Commons is an elected chamber with elections to 650 single-member constituencies held at least every five years under the first-past-the-post system. By constitutional convention, all governme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Assent
Royal assent is the method by which a monarch formally approves an act of the legislature, either directly or through an official acting on the monarch's behalf. In some jurisdictions, royal assent is equivalent to promulgation, while in others that is a separate step. Under a modern constitutional monarchy, royal assent is considered little more than a formality. Even in nations such as the United Kingdom, Norway, the Netherlands, Liechtenstein and Monaco which still, in theory, permit their monarch to withhold assent to laws, the monarch almost never does so, except in a dire political emergency or on advice of government. While the power to veto by withholding royal assent was once exercised often by European monarchs, such an occurrence has been very rare since the eighteenth century. Royal assent is typically associated with elaborate ceremony. In the United Kingdom the Sovereign may appear personally in the House of Lords or may appoint Lords Commissioners, who announce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harbour Authority
In Canada and the United States, a port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure. In Canada, the federal Minister of Transport selects the local chief executive board member and the rest of the board is appointed at the recommendation of port users to the federal Minister; while all Canadian port authorities have a federal or Crown charter called ''Letters Patent''. Numerous Caribbean nations have port authorities, including those of Aruba, British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Maarten, St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Central and South America also have port agencies such as ''autoridad'' and ''consorcio'' (authority and consortium). In Mexico, the federal government created sixteen port administrations in 1994–1995 called ''Admini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thames Conservancy
The Thames Conservancy (formally the Conservators of the River Thames) was a body responsible for the management of the that river in England. It was founded in 1857 to replace the jurisdiction of the City of London up to Staines. Nine years later it took on the whole river from Cricklade in Wiltshire to the sea at Yantlet Creek on the Isle of Grain. Its territory was reduced when the Tideway (upper and lower estuary) was transferred to the Port of London Authority in 1909. In 1974 the conservancy was taken into the Thames Water Authority, later to devolve to the Environment Agency in almost all respects. History Background The stretch of river between the town of Staines, just to the west of London, and Yantlet Creek had been claimed by the City of London since 1197 under a charter of Richard the Lionheart. The jurisdiction was marked by the London Stones. In 1771 the Thames Navigation Commission was established from a body created twenty years earlier to handle navigatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Of London
The Port of London is that part of the River Thames in England lying between Teddington Lock and the defined boundary (since 1968, a line drawn from Foulness Point in Essex via Gunfleet Old Lighthouse to Warden Point in Kent) with the North Sea and including any associated docks. Once the largest port in the world, it was the United Kingdom's largest port as of 2020.New data appended annually. Usage is largely governed by the Port of London Authority ("PLA"), a public trust established in 1908; while mainly responsible for coordination and enforcement of activities it also has some minor operations of its own. The port can handle cruise liners, roll-on roll-off ferries and cargo of all types at the larger facilities in its eastern extent. As with many similar historic European ports, such as Antwerp and Rotterdam, many activities have steadily moved downstream towards the open sea as ships have grown larger and the land upriver taken over for other uses. History The Port of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
