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Acts of the last session of the Parliament of Great Britain and the first session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom are both cited as "41 Geo. 3". Some of these acts have a short title. Some of these acts have never had a short title. Some of these acts have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896.
By further Royal Charter in 1903 the name of the Society was changed to simply "The Law Society". The Society first admitted women members in 1922. [2] In 1949, the Law Society was given the responsibility of legal aid by the Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949. [3] The function was passed to the Legal Aid Board by Legal Aid Act 1988.
Prime Minister (joint with the HM Treasury – the prime minister is the First Lord of the Treasury ex officio) [n 1] [1] First Lord of the Treasury; First Secretary of State; Minister for the Civil Service; Minister for the Union; Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister; Deputy Prime Minister
A member of Parliament is a member of either of the two chambers of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, although the term member of Parliament of the Czech Republic is commonly referred to as deputy of the Parliament of the Czech Republic (Czech: Poslanec Parlamentu České republiky), who is a member of the lower house of the Parliament, the ...
In April 2010 the central government agreed to share the funding for implementing the law in the ratio of 65 to 35 between the centre and the states, and a ratio of 90 to 10 for the north-eastern states. [23] However, in mid-2010, this figure was upgraded to Rs. 2310 billion, and the center agreed to raise its share to 68%. [22]
Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The minister plenipotentiary is not part of the government and represents the Sint Maarten government in the Netherlands. The judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The country is a parliamentary representative democratic country with a multi-party system.
A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, [1] [2] making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers. In some jurisdictions the head of government is also a minister and is designated the 'prime minister', 'premier', 'chief minister', 'chancellor' or other title.
Shanmugam served as a Member of Parliament and continued to practise law until 2008 when he joined the Cabinet to replace S. Jayakumar as Minister for Law. [11] He was concurrently appointed Second Minister for Home Affairs in 2008, and succeeded Wong Kan Seng as Minister for Home Affairs in 2010.