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The Government of India Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 2 August 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transferral of its functions to the British Crown.
In August, by the Government of India Act 1858, the company's ruling powers over India were transferred to the British Crown. [181] A new British government department, the India Office , was created to handle the governance of India, and its head, the Secretary of State for India , was entrusted with formulating Indian policy.
The enabling act on 24 February 1923, originally limited until 1 June but extended until 31 October, empowered the cabinet to resist the occupation of the Ruhr. [3] There was an enabling act on 13 October 1923 and an enabling act on 8 December 1923 that would last until the dissolution of the Reichstag on 13 March 1924. [4]
Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in ...
An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act, passed in the third Year of the Reign of King James the First, intituled, "An Act for the recovering of small Debts, and for the relieving of poor Debtors in London;" [j] and an Act, passed in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, to explain and ...
An Act for obviating any Doubts or Difficulties that may arise from an Act, passed in the First Year of His present Majesty, [p] intituled, "An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled, 'An Act for Sale of such of the forfeited Estates, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, as ...
A top Indian opposition leader was freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court on Friday nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case that opposition parties called a political ...
The Indian Slavery Act, 1843, also known as Act V of 1843, was an act passed in British India under East India Company rule, which outlawed many economic transactions associated with slavery. The act states how the sale of any person as a slave was banned, and anyone buying or selling slaves would be prosecuted under the law, the offence ...