The Whistleblowers Protection bill The Union Cabinet has cleared a bill to protect whistleblowers and punish those exposing identity of people disclosing information. The proposed legislation‚ Public Interest Disclosure and Protection to Persons Making The Disclosure Bill‚ 2010‚ provides the Central Vigilance Commission powers of a civil court to hand down harsh penalty to people revealing identity of whistleblowers. The CVC will be empowered to take action against those who reveal the identity
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regain ownership of their traditional land. The Native Title Amendment Act 1998 (Cth) also restricted the rights of Indigenous Australians. Since 1993‚ there have been 180 registered determinations of native title covering approximately 15 per cent of Australia’s land mass. Of those‚ 139 recognise the status of native title. An example of this is the Lovett (on behalf of the Gunditjmara People) v State of Victoria (2007) case which granted the Gunditjmara people native title ownership of over 4000
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this case yes – the Trial Judge and jury have held communications with the Chief Executive for guidance. 3. The nature of law truepenny has adopted here is one of mercy. b. Foster J i) What is the state of nature and what is a social contract? Where the Spelunceans really in a state of nature? Rousseau It should also be noted that the third great contributor to ’social contract theory’ was
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DATA PROTECTION ACT 1998 GUIDANCE TO SOCIAL SERVICES March 2000 CONTENTS Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Introduction Glossary of terms Good practice in record keeping Principles underpinning good practice A policy framework Retention and destruction of records Records subject to statutory requirements Management commitment to good practice 4 8 14 14 15 16 17 17 Contents page 1 Section 4 Details of the Act and its implementation Access to social services records Personal
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GLOSSARY The Patents Act‚ 2005 Section 2. (1) of the Patents Act‚ specifies the following terms‚ c. "Convention application" means an application for a patent made by virtue of section 135; d. "convention country" means a country or a country which is member of a group of countries or a union of countries or an Inter-governmental organization referred to as a convention country in section 133; j. "invention" means a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable
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CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT‚ 1986 [Act No. 68 of Year 1986‚ dated 24th. December‚ 1986] An Act to provide for better protection of the interests of consumers and for that purpose to make provision for the establishment of consumer councils and other authorities for the settlement of consumers’ disputes and for matters connected therewith Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows: - CHAPTER I: PRELIMINARY 1. Short title‚ extent‚ commencement
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Environmental protection means people protect the natural resources and make rational use of resources consciously in order to prevent the pollution and damage to the environment; we have to make a comprehensive management on the polluted and destructed environment in order to create the environment which is suitable for human life and work. Environment protection is also the general term for various measures that people take to solve the real or potential environmental problems‚ coordinate the relationship
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Andrew Tucker Honors Thesis March 31‚ 2004 Fantasy: A World of Sunshine or Shadow Fantasy literature is an object of considerable controversy‚ but this controversy is not specifically or uniquely modern. Arguably‚ fantasy literature has been controversial since its very beginnings in Western Society‚ though I am by no means certain of when that is‚ nor is it the aim here to determine it. The controversy regarding fantasy stories exists mainly on two levels. The first‚ a concern regarding
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Hnnnjn My responsibility as a childminder is to ensure the safety and welfare of all the children in my care in line with the procedures laid out by the Integrated Access Team. I last received training on Safeguarding Children (child protection) in November 2012 and am aware of the signs and symptoms of child abuse‚ physical‚ emotional and sexual‚ and those of neglect. This policy shall be shown to parents explaining my responsibilities‚ how I keep their child +-en) safe and what I will do should
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requires candidates to “Comprehensively and accurately evaluate how sentencing and punishment attempts to balance the rights of victims‚ offenders and society”. Poor question. This question starts after an offender has been found guilty and is to be sentenced. This is the key part of the Legal Studies syllabus that pertains to the question: 4. Sentencing and punishment • statutory and judicial guidelines • the purposes of punishment: deterrence (specific and general)‚ retribution‚ rehabilitation‚
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