Sentence examples for payment acts from inspiring English sources

This payment acts as a sanction on her behaviour; if it can be shown that she has misbehaved (for example, by cheating on her husband or by running away for no good reason), the husband's family can demand its return.

When wages increase with seniority, the deferred payment acts as an incentive device provided that the firm is not publicly known to renege on the promise of higher future wages.

The legislation was known as the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943.

Moreover, there is a law called the Prompt Payment Act, which requires the government to pay its obligations when they come due.

In the correspondence about Harold Wilson (Letters, 14 and 16 March), nobody pays tribute to the passing of the Redundancy Payment Act 1965.

In Westminster Hall there's the usual series of adjournment debates and my eye was caught by the one led by Labour's Russell Brown (2.30pm - 4pm) on reform of the Vaccine Damage Payment Act.

In 1989, one year after the Morgentaler decision passed in the Supreme Court, Frank McKenna's Liberal government put regulation 84-20 of the Medical Services Payment Act into effect.

The first is NB Regulation 84-20, Schedule 2 (a.1) of the Medical Services Payment Act, which stipulates that, for the procedure to be funded, two doctors must sign off that an abortion is "medically required".

Cuts to benefit entitlements make it less likely unemployed people will find a job, a government-backed employment project has found, undermining politicians' claims that docking welfare payments acts as an incentive to work.

In the very short term, this is a positive trend; Social Security payments act as an automatic stabiliser, and retiring workers reduce slack in the labour market.

Luis Jalandoni, an official of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, an umbrella organization of revolutionary groups, said in 2004 that the payments acted as proof that "two governments exist in the Philippines".