Sentences with phrase «held by public authorities»

Adopted on 25 June 1998, it ascertains that the public has a right to receive environmental information that is held by public authorities who are obliged to actively disseminate it.

FIA 2000 came fully into force on 1 January 2005 and gives anyone, including foreign nationals and companies, access to any information held by public authorities, subject to some statutory exemptions.

Thus in the words of Judge LJ: ``... the 2000 Act may properly be seen as Parliament's considered statutory framework for the disclosure of information held by public authorities, whose enactment militates against the incremental judicial perception of a common law duty to the same or any wider extent.»

Principal 10 states that «each individual shall have appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities, including information on hazardous materials and activities in their communities, and the opportunity to participate in decision - making processes.»

In practice around the world, this has usually meant a statutory right on the part of the public to see certain types of recorded information held by public authorities.

Was this conceal [ing a] record held by the public authority (FOIA 2000)?

(a) a request for information has been made to a public authority, and (b) under section 1 of this Act or section 7 of the Data Protection Act 1998, the applicant would have been entitled (subject to payment of any fee) to communication of any information in accordance with that section, any person to whom this subsection applies is guilty of an offence if he alters, defaces, blocks, erases, destroys or conceals any record held by the public authority, with the intention of preventing the disclosure by that authority of all, or any part, of the information to the communication of which the applicant would have been entitled.

any person to whom this subsection applies is guilty of an offence if he alters, defaces, blocks, erases, destroys or conceals any record held by the public authority, with the intention of preventing the disclosure by that authority of all, or any part, of the information to the communication of which the applicant would have been entitled.

Information held by a public authority is exempt information if it is held only by virtue of being contained in --

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The Thruway Authority is holding public hearings on the proposal to raise tolls by 45 percent for trucks and other commercial vehicles.

Among the news from public hearings held at the Palisades Center Mall and the Westchester Marriott Hotel in Tarrytown last week, state officials released information that twelve properties in the Village of South Nyack will be affected by the necessary widening of the New York State Thruway Authority's right - of - way there.

By failing to vote for these amendments they will be making it harder for those who voted them into power to exercise their constitutional and legal right to hold government to account and challenge public authorities when they get it wrong.»

Public authorities, run by his appointees, can borrow with state taxpayers» backing without requiring voter approval, as when the state holds a referendum for a major bond act for transportation or environmental projects.

Organizations like the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy (SHARE) have kept the pressure on state officials — sending a letter to Cuomo signed by two dozen Albany County legislators opposed to the project's fossil fuel - powered status and holding multiple public meetings with the New York Power Authority to express their grievances.

The schedule of meetings of public bodies in Niagara Falls government this week: The Niagara Falls Housing Authority Board of Commissioners will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the authority's executive offices, 744 10th St.. The Niagara Falls City Council will hold a Committee of the Whole meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a legislative meeting at 6 in Council ChambAuthority Board of Commissioners will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the authority's executive offices, 744 10th St.. The Niagara Falls City Council will hold a Committee of the Whole meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a legislative meeting at 6 in Council Chambauthority's executive offices, 744 10th St.. The Niagara Falls City Council will hold a Committee of the Whole meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, followed by a legislative meeting at 6 in Council Chambers in...

This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.

New York «had set forth a clear and comprehensive statement of its vision,» wrote one reviewer, who noted that the «ambitious agenda» would be helped by «the extensive authority over public education held by The Board of Regents» and «the large network of 37 District Superintendents who oversee Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES).»

By contrast, in a chartered system, public schools would be nonreligious, managed by nonprofits, overseen by a public authority, and held to clear performance standardBy contrast, in a chartered system, public schools would be nonreligious, managed by nonprofits, overseen by a public authority, and held to clear performance standardby nonprofits, overseen by a public authority, and held to clear performance standardby a public authority, and held to clear performance standards.

Perhaps its most controversial elements involve the potential for increased public funding of charter schools, all of which hold nonprofit status, but some of which are operated by for - profit management franchises, and a proposal to transfer authority over the IPS district from an elected school board to a board appointed by the city's mayor and city - county council.

Before a single child's information is turned over to any 3rd party, policymakers should give assurance to parents and educators that no harm will come to Tennessee school children by adopting the following principles: The state and districts should be required to publish any and all existing data sharing agreements in printed and electronic form, and include a thorough explanation of its purpose and provisions, and make it available to parents and local school authorities statewide; The Department of Education should hold hearings throughout the state or testify before the legislature to explain any existing data agreement, and answer questions from the public or their representatives, obtain informed comment, and gauge public reaction; All parents should have the right to be notified of the impending disclosure of their children's data, and provide them with a right to consent or have the right to withhold their children's information from being shared; The state should have to define what rights families or individuals will have to obtain relief if harmed by improper use or release of their child's private information, including how claims can be made; and finally, any legislation must ensure that the privacy interest of public school children and their families are put above the interests of any 3rd Party and its agents and subsidiaries.

This order concerns the unlawful assertion of sovereign immunity by Thai Airways International Public Company Ltd. («Thai Airways»), a foreign air carrier holding permit and exemption authority to operate to and from the United States, conduct that violated the express terms of its operating authority, 49 U.S.C. $ 41301, and constituted an unfair and deceptive practice in violation of 49 U.S.C. 3 41712.

As described more fully herein, by holding itself out to the public as an operator of an aircraft that it did not operate, Mercy Flights exceeded the scope of the economic authority conferred by its registration as an air taxi under 14 CFR 298.21, and thus violated 49 U.S.C. § 41101, the Department's economic licensing requirement for air carriers.

The BBC is regarded as a public authority by the Freedom of Information Act 2000, but it can withhold information held «for the purposes of journalism».

(a) to be informed in writing by the public authority whether it holds information of the description specified in the request, and (b) if that is the case, to have that information communicated to him.

The «prohibition of privatization»: shares held in an electricity or gas distribution system operator must be held, directly or indirectly, by public authorities;

Notable mandates: Canadian counsel to MeadWestvaco Corp. in international restructuring and spinoff of a division to another public entity, valued at around $ 500 million; counsel to Skyline Commercial REIT in its multi-phased acquisition of 46 commercial properties from Conundrum Capital for a purchase price of around $ 242 million; Canadian counsel to Ralcorp Holdings Inc. in cross-border acquisition by ConAgra Foods Inc., a transaction with a total value of more than US$ 9 billion; lead external legal counsel to Puerto Rico Public - Private Partnerships Authority in relation to the authority's first greenfield design - build - finance - maintain project (a juvenile detention and social treatment facility); advisor to Ghana Grid Co. Ltd. in relation to development of market rules for the Ghanaian electricity spublic entity, valued at around $ 500 million; counsel to Skyline Commercial REIT in its multi-phased acquisition of 46 commercial properties from Conundrum Capital for a purchase price of around $ 242 million; Canadian counsel to Ralcorp Holdings Inc. in cross-border acquisition by ConAgra Foods Inc., a transaction with a total value of more than US$ 9 billion; lead external legal counsel to Puerto Rico Public - Private Partnerships Authority in relation to the authority's first greenfield design - build - finance - maintain project (a juvenile detention and social treatment facility); advisor to Ghana Grid Co. Ltd. in relation to development of market rules for the Ghanaian electricity sPublic - Private Partnerships Authority in relation to the authority's first greenfield design - build - finance - maintain project (a juvenile detention and social treatment facility); advisor to Ghana Grid Co. Ltd. in relation to development of market rules for the Ghanaian electricitAuthority in relation to the authority's first greenfield design - build - finance - maintain project (a juvenile detention and social treatment facility); advisor to Ghana Grid Co. Ltd. in relation to development of market rules for the Ghanaian electricitauthority's first greenfield design - build - finance - maintain project (a juvenile detention and social treatment facility); advisor to Ghana Grid Co. Ltd. in relation to development of market rules for the Ghanaian electricity system.

They will need to know how to design services which appeal to new «customers» — clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) led and owned by GPs but with representation on their board from nurses, hospital doctors and lay members, the NHS commissioning board and its regional outposts based initially on clusters of PCTs, local authorities, who have a new duty to improve public health, and of course increasingly savvy personal budget - holding patients and service users.

Judicial review, obviously, provides a means by which people can hold public authorities to account with regard to unlawful actions and decisions.

Response: This regulation does not affect law enforcement access to records held by public health authorities, nor does it expand current law enforcement access to records held by covered entities.

The court said it was bound by Leonard Cheshire to hold that a privately run care home is not a public authority for the purposes of HRA 1998.

The court considered itself bound by its earlier decision in R (Heather) v Leonard Cheshire Foundation [2002] EWCA Civ 366, [2002] 2 All ER 936, in which it was held that such homes are not acting as public authorities for the purposes of HRA 1998.

The care home was not bound by Convention rights because it was held not to be a public authority for the purposes of HRA 1998.

Comedy Driving Traffic School can not be held liable for loss, damage or delay of packages caused by events we can not control, including but not limited to acts of God, perils of the air, weather conditions, acts of public enemies, war, strikes, civil commotions, or acts of public authorities with actual or apparent authority.

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