Examples of Act of Settlement in a sentence
The Early Charters and the Administration of Justice by the East India Company, the Mayor's Courts; Judicial Reforms of Warren Hastings and the Advent of Adalat System; the Regulating Act, Pits India Act, and the Act of Settlement; Judicial Reforms of Cornwallis and Lord William Bentick; the High Courts; Privy Council; the Supreme Court of India; the Law Commissions and Codification, Development of Criminal Law, Law of Contract and Law of Evidence in India; Personal Laws of Hindu and Mohammedans.
The Early Charters and the Administration of Justice by the East India Company, the Mayor's Courts; Judicial Reforms of Warren Hastings and the Advent of Adalat System; the Regulating Act and the Act of Settlement; Judicial Reforms of Cornwallis; the High Courts; Privy Council; the Supreme Court of India; the Law Commissions and Codification, Development of Criminal Law, Law of Contract and Law of Evidence in India; Personal Laws of Hindu and Mohammedans.
They include Magna Carta, the Petition of Right 1628, the Bill of Rights and (in Scotland) the Claim of Rights Act 1689, the Act of Settlement 1701 and the Act of Union 1707.
Those statutes were the Bill of Rights 1688/9 and the Act of Settlement 1701 in England and Wales, the Claim of Right 1689 in Scotland, and the Acts of Union 1706 and 1707 in England and Wales and in Scotland respectively.
A person is not disqualified for membership of the Assembly by virtue of subsection (4) by reason only that he is disqualified under section 3 of the Act of Settlement (certain persons born out of the Kingdom) if he is a citizen of the European Union.
Our choice of 1690 as the beginning of a stable era of decentralized administration is somewhat arbitrary; for our purposes, we could just as well have chosen 1700, the year in which the Act of Settlement became law.
References, however expressed, in any law that forms part of the law of the Commonwealth or a Territory, to the provisions of the Bill of Rights or the Act of Settlement relating to succession to, or possession of, the Crown are to be read as including references to the provisions of this Act.
On the eve of Queen Elizabeth II’s golden jubilee, The Guardian newspaper launched a campaign to repeal or amend the 1701 Act of Settlement, according to which only Protestant heirs of princess Sofia of Hanover could ascend the throne.
He put to one side a constitutional argument advanced by Mr Michael Beloff QC for the High Court Judges that, while pensions could not themselves be considered to fall within the prohibition on diminution of salary derivable from the Bill of Rights of 1689 or the Act of Settlement of 1701, the constitutional position of his clients meant that any discrimination by way of pensions and disadvantageous tax treatment should be treated as comparable to a reduction in pay and, for that reason, be rejected.
England had only given the echr a legal basis in 1998, but this now implied that that the discrimination on grounds of religion embodied in the Act of Settlement was no longer legal.