Sentences with phrase «intention of the legislature»

It is the intention of this legislature to require that all retail stores place individual item prices on products which they sell and to require accuracy at the checkout registers.

Finally it is the intention of this legislature to ensure that consumers in Erie county know what they are paying and are not charged more than that amount at the registers.

Further, it is the intention of this legislature to provide for a waiver of the item pricing requirement for certain stores which maintain a very high degree of computer - assisted pricing accuracy and which provide certain other services to permit consumers to record and verify individual item prices.

Rather they invoke the intention of the legislature as the authority for their position.

The goal of the statutory interpretation exercise is to decipher the intention of the legislature as to the meaning and effect of the words in question.

He reached the conclusion from combined reading of sections 2 (c), 2 (k) and section 3 of the Act that the intention of the legislature was that the scope of the Act would be limited to within the territory of Bangladesh, except for the scope to enforce of an award passed in a foreign arbitration, pursuant to the section 3 (2) read with section 45, 46 and 47 of the said Act.

The apparent intention of the legislature was to provide something within the VAT regime which was parallel to the income tax regime.

The s 159 amendments will neutralize the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) and give the management of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) absolute power to decide what benefits they will allow injured workers to have, regardless of the intention of this legislature as expressed in the Act.

According to the decisions released in these appeals, because the OHSA referred to both «workers» and «persons» in various provisions, the intention of the legislature must have been to define these terms differently.

[63] The well - established modern approach to statutory interpretation requires the words of an Act to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense, harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the Act, and the intention of the legislature: Bell ExpressVu Limited Partnership v. Rex, 2002 SCC 42 at paras. 26.

Justice Juriansz found that the object of the Act and the intention of the legislature leads to the conclusion that section 33 (4) 3 does not require an Insurer to include in its notice to a claimant a justification for its request to attend an EUO.

As argued by the plaintiffs in Nor - Dor (at para. 4), «[the expiry of a limitation period while the leave motion is pending] can not have been the intention of the legislature when it enacted this section of the Act».

... a law or executive act which creates rights in third parties inconsistent with a continued right to enjoy native title extinguished native title to the extent of the inconsistency, irrespective of the actual intention of the legislature or the executive and whether or not the legislature or the executive officer adverted to the existence of native title.

Where the intention of the legislature is not expressly stated the court plays a greater role in interpreting the legislation so as to give effect to its purpose.

Not exact matches

Originalists such as Gorsuch also apply their philosophy to resolve disagreements over laws crafted by Congress or state legislatures, focusing on the text and intention of the lawmakers.

The Ohio legislature responded by passing a statute known as the «Art Modell law,» named after the Browns / Ravens owner, forces an owner of a sports team that uses public resources to give six months notice of their intention to relocate and give local people and municipalities a chance to purchase the team.

On the other hand, if the intention is to rely more on the legislature for policy making, presidents will appoint career politicians, including members of the Congress, to win their support.

In his release announcing the executive order, Cuomo reiterated his intention to «introduce a bill next year to bring the same, necessary high standards of transparency to the legislature.»

Abbate, a Democrat elected in 1986 to represent Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights, has yet to formally announce his intentions on the seat but has advertised them openly to local politicos (sources said he has not been shy about mentioning the appeal of the almost $ 70,000 salary bump he would get serving in the local legislature, and the corresponding benefits to his pension).

KINGSTON — Ulster County Executive Michael Hein signed legislation on Monday approved by the county legislature that codifies the county's intention to absorb the cost of the state - mandated Safety Net social services program over a three - year period.

Governor Cuomo could, as good government groups have suggested, compel the legislature to return for a special session to overhaul ethics laws, though the governor has made it clear in the past that he has no intention of doing so.

And, with 2016 being an election year, some leaders in the legislature have publicly stated their intentions for some sort of raises this year.

With the passage of the Levy Swipe bill that is certain to reduce school funding rather than increase it, our current legislature has made it crystal clear that they have no intention of honoring their Paramount Duty to amply fund our public schools.

I testified at the state legislature in Louisiana against one of the no - nothing bills you mentioned, and even though it was painfully obvious that the legislators had no real intention of being affected by any argument we might make, it was a necessary «waste» of time.

The plaintiffs therefore argued that this demonstrated a clear intention on the part of the legislature to bring occupiers under the ambit of the CPA.

This description of the average consumer is consistent with the legislature's intention to protect vulnerable persons from the dangers of certain advertising techniques,» they added.

Paragraph 27 of that decision provided: «It is thus clear that the Community legislature's intention was to entitle victims of damage or injury caused by unidentified or insufficiently insured vehicles to protection equivalent to, and as effective as, that available to persons injured by identified and insured vehicles.»

After the lynch mob of outrage stirred up by the recent Divisional Court ruling on Article 50, it is a brave judge indeed who would say anything in public about the question of whether and how Parliament (i.e. the legislature) needs to approve the notification of the European Council under Article 50 of the UK's intention to leave the EU.

If we break down this approach into its constituent parts, we see there are five things the Supreme Court has said that courts must consider when interpreting a statute: 1) the grammatical and ordinary meaning of the words, 2) the textual context in which the words appear, 3) the scheme of the Act, 4) the object of the Act, and 5) the intention of Parliament or the provincial legislature.

The legislature intended to allow the Commissioner to assess claims of solicitor - client privilege in appropriate cases; that intention can be identified from the «grammatical and ordinary meaning of the words «any privilege of the law of evidence»» and from contextual factors (at para 79).

The intention of Parliament or the legislatures is not frozen for all time at the moment of a statute's enactment, such that a court interpreting the statute is forever confined to the meanings and circumstances that governed on that day.

Preserving the original intention of Parliament or the legislatures frequently requires a dynamic approach to interpreting their enactments, sensitive to evolving social and material realities.

(15) The difference between «serious grounds» and «imperative grounds» already seems to indicate the intention of the Union legislature.

Justice Khullar relied upon the «modern» approach to statutory interpretation: «the words of an Act are to be read in their entire context and in their grammatical and ordinary sense harmoniously with the scheme of the Act, the object of the Act, and the intention of [the legislature]»: Elmer Driedger, Construction of Statutes, 2nd ed (Toronto: Butterworths, 1983 at 87)(at para 23).

In a practical world, I doubt some no money, no job, newbie wholesaler will want to finance fighting any government agency through the appellate level fighting on the grounds that the intentions and actions of the legislature and regulatory agency are unconstitutional.