Sentence examples for provision act from inspiring English sources

Under the English Inheritance (Family Provision) Act of 1938, as amended in a series of enactments, the court, if it found the decedent had failed to make reasonable financial provision for the applicant, was empowered to order maintenance from the estate to the surviving spouse, an unmarried daughter, a minor son, any incapacitated child, or an unmarried former spouse of the decedent.

Women were less knowledgeable on the consequences of sexual violence, perpetrators of violence and the law that convicts the perpetrators − the Sexual Offense Special Provision Act (SOSPA).

The Tanzanian Sexual Offence Special Provision Act (SOSPA) specifies that; "A man who has sexual intercourse with a female below 18 years of age, with or without her consent, has committed rape unless she is his wife and above 15 years of age and not separated from him" [ 26].

Family provision acts of this kind have since been enacted in Australia, Canada, and England.

Lord Lloyd recommended reform of the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act, emergency provisions created in 1974 for Northern Ireland.

Replaces temporary legislation first passed in the 1970s to combat terrorism in Northern Ireland: the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1989, the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1996, and parts of the Criminal Justice (Terrorism and Conspiracy) Act 1998.

From 1998 to 2005, I was imprisoned for breaking the Emergency Provisions Act by participating in an antigovernment student protest.

Put in front of a judge in a mass trial, he was convicted of making pamphlets without approval, breaking the Emergency Provisions Act and the Unlawful Associations Act, and sentenced to thirty-one years.

In subsequent years the Peace People fought for a repeal of the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act, which, among other things, had increased the British army's powers to arrest and question suspects.

The council has also sought legal advice about whether it has sufficient powers under the 1982 Local Government Miscellaneous Provisions Act, or whether it will have to proceed by way of a private parliamentary bill.

The Banking (Special Provisions) Act allows orders to be issued for the transfer of all shares in Northern Rock to the government and for an independent auditor to calculate how much money shareholders should receive.