• Senator DANTE DELGADO (Mexico): (Through translator) I'm sorry to say this was not an act of authority.

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  • It also recommends that the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance act of 2002 be incorporated into the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, giving regulators more authority over corporate issues.

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  • The law creating the sequester (the Budget Control Act of 2011) lowers statutory caps on the spending authority of federal agencies.

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  • This is especially true given that Section 921 of the Dodd-Frank Act provided the SEC with rulemaking authority to prohibit or impose conditions on the use of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements.

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  • Rather, he argued that the agents who issued the notice of deficiency lacked proper authority and that the notices violated the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

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  • At that meeting, OMB staff told participants that the first regulatory enforcement report is due by December 31, 2003, and that information in this report should be consistent with agency information reported under the authority of the IG Act and the CFO Act.

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  • First exercised by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 to designate Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, the authority of the Antiquities Act has been used by 16 presidents since 1906 to protect unique natural and historic features in America, such as the Grand Canyon, the Statue of Liberty, and Colorado's Canyons of the Ancients.

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  • Applying the principle governing civil liability, we go only a step farther in holding that the act of the agent, while exercising the authority delegated to him to make rates for transportation, may be controlled, in the interest of public policy, by imputing his act to his employer and imposing penalties upon the corporation for which he is acting in the premises.

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  • It recommended that action could be taken on the grounds of harassment, and that the authority could sue for defamation under the Localism Act 2011 - because several of the requests were made in emails to every councillor.

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  • The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, which gave the government more authority to set standards for food sold at school, could help by increasing the reimbursement for school meals.

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  • She said the "failings were collective errors of judgment" and the local authority was reviewing its training for staff regarding the Mental Capacity Act and deprivation of liberty safeguards.

    BBC: London

  • In defending the constitutionality of the Act, the federal government relies upon the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as the enumerated power supposedly delegating authority to the federal government for this regulatory compulsion.

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  • Under the authority of amendments to the Clean Air Act, the EPA mandates the use of cellulosic biofuels and fines refiners for failing to use the mandated amount.

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  • The Circular is issued under the authority of the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act of 1982 as codified in 31 U.S.C. 3512.

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  • There are some options for first-time buyers under which a local authority will act as guarantor for the top slice of the mortgage, requiring a deposit of just 5%.

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  • Operating through permitting authority asserted under auspices of its Clean Air Act, the agency will now have a major say in the design of every major project in which fossil fuel is combusted or CO2 emissions are released.

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  • Preventing roving wiretaps: The Patriot Act allows federal officials, pursuant to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court authority, to track the telecommunications of suspected terrorists, despite their efforts to defeat such monitoring by changing phones or service providers.

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  • The Academies Act 2010 said it was "immaterial if there is an intention of the local authority to use the site... for a different school".

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  • The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) and declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation.

    WHITEHOUSE: Notice -- Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Risk of Nuclear Proliferation Created by the Accumulation of Weapons-Usable Fissile Material in the Territory of the Russian Federation | The White House

  • The EPA is the lead agency for suspension and debarment matters regarding BP and has the authority to disbar individuals and companies under sections of the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act.

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  • But council lawyers said the decision was "rational, made with great care and was based on a full appreciation of the obligation to act within the law" and the judge ruled in the authority's favour.

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  • It tells officers not be deterred if they see a "squatter's rights" notice on the door as "the police have lawful authority under section 17 of PACE (the Police and Criminal Evidence Act) to enter the property to make an arrest".

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  • Less easy to justify are Daft's take-it-or-leave-it orders requiring longtime employees to move to far-off Detroit or Cincinnati as part of his "Think local, act local" plan, designed to push more authority over marketing, advertising and pricing down to the regional level.

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  • That authority, the act stated, was not to be shared with other echelons of command.

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  • Judge Treacy said the courts will act if a public authority puts a child where they will be exposed to the risk of serious harm or abuse.

    BBC: Northern Ireland

  • The terms of what makes up a "public authority" have not been defined in the Act, but will include government departments, local authorities, police, prison, immigration officers, public prosecutors and courts.

    BBC: Strasbourg court of human rights

  • While it appears to me that HHS did act within its authority, I can see how a question can be raised given the technical language of the law.

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  • Members of the Advisory Group, acting in their official capacity, may designate employees with authority to act on their behalf.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The Act requires all scrap metal dealers to be registered with their local authority and obliges them to maintain records of all transactions relating to scrap metal received and processed.

    BBC: Scrap metal theft 'on same level as drug scene'

  • Dodd-Frank gives unprecedented power to the Treasury secretary to determine whether an insolvent financial company will be subject to OLA. The Act sets a high standard for invoking the authority, but the process is unnecessarily tainted by the involvement of a political appointee, even if he or she is acting in good faith.

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