Example sentences of "it be the duty " in BNC.

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31 Section 4(1) of the Police Act 1964 states that it is the duty of every police authority to secure the maintenance of an adequate and efficient police force for the area and gives it certain responsibilities in relation to the establishment , buildings and equipment .
32 The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor .
33 It is the duty of the judge to consider each case before him in the light of existing law and established principles .
34 It is the duty of the inventor to build a new gestalt for the old one in the framework of society .
35 When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry or the district judge aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge ( post , p. 92D–E ) .
36 When an appeal is made from a decision of a family proceedings court in a secure accommodation order case , or in any case of urgency where time is short , it is the duty of the appellant solicitor to make the district registry aware of the need for urgency and to invite the district registry or the district judge to list the matter at the nearest court where an early hearing can take place before a High Court judge .
37 Since the defence must be given a copy of the statement of a proposed witness who has not made a deposition , it must follow that , if a Crown witness 's evidence is intended to depart significantly from his deposition and to be based on his statement to the police , it is the duty of the Crown to give the defence a copy of that statement in advance of the hearing .
38 Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading .
39 Under section 71(1) of the Act , it is the duty of each local authority to enforce within its district the provisions of the Act and ‘ for that purpose to institute and carry on such proceedings in respect of contraventions of the said provisions … as may be necessary to secure observance thereof . ’
40 This conclusion was based on the premises that ( 1 ) it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of a provision of Community law ; ( 2 ) article 30 was such a provision ; ( 3 ) if Wickes is right that section 47 of the Act of 1950 is incompatible with article 30 , it has a current right to open its stores for Sunday trading , and it is the duty of the national court to protect that right ; ( 4 ) in the absence of an undertaking in damages , Wickes will have been restrained from opening on Sundays , without any right to compensation ; ( 5 ) there is no need for this purpose to assess the strength of Wickes ' challenge to section 47 on the basis of article 30 , it being enough that the challenge is not without foundation : see [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 985 , 993 , per Dillon L.J. , and pp. 999–1000 , per Mann L.J .
41 This conclusion was based on the premises that ( 1 ) it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of a provision of Community law ; ( 2 ) article 30 was such a provision ; ( 3 ) if Wickes is right that section 47 of the Act of 1950 is incompatible with article 30 , it has a current right to open its stores for Sunday trading , and it is the duty of the national court to protect that right ; ( 4 ) in the absence of an undertaking in damages , Wickes will have been restrained from opening on Sundays , without any right to compensation ; ( 5 ) there is no need for this purpose to assess the strength of Wickes ' challenge to section 47 on the basis of article 30 , it being enough that the challenge is not without foundation : see [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 985 , 993 , per Dillon L.J. , and pp. 999–1000 , per Mann L.J .
42 It is the duty of a person to whom an Act of Parliament gives fees , to receive what is allowed , and nothing more .
43 It is the duty of a person to whom an Act of Parliament gives fees , to receive what is allowed , and nothing more .
44 And section 22(3) provides that it is the duty of a local authority to safeguard and promote the welfare of any child in its care .
45 Likewise suppose the corporation propose to increase the number of taxicabs from 300 to 350 or 400 or more : it is the duty of the corporation to hear those affected before coming to a decision adverse to their interests .
46 If it is the duty of such a party to a contract , whether at common law or under statute , to disclose in defined circumstances confidential information , then he must do so , and any express contract to the contrary would be illegal and void .
47 In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age .
48 If an adult patient did not have the capacity to decide at the time of the purported refusal and still does not have that capacity , it is the duty of the doctors to treat him in whatever way they consider , in the exercise of their clinical judgment , to be in his best interests .
49 The fiduciary controls on managerial discretion provide that it is the duty of the directors to act in the interests of the shareholders .
50 If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so .
51 In professional practice it is the duty of the advocate to call the attention of the court to all decisions that are in any way against the submissions he makes ; but this may not be possible in moot conditions .
52 Although we can see elements of a critical function ( especially in Leavis ) , the dominant approach of these writers is founded on a base of a certain set of social ideas which it is the duty of higher education to guard and transmit .
53 Responsibility is therefore the obligation to do something ; in an organisation , it is the duty of an official to carry out his assigned tasks .
54 It is the duty of a constitutional monarch or President when faced with violent tyrannical action by individuals or a minority party to take the necessary steps to secure the wellbeing of the toiling masses and the continuity of an ordered state .
55 It is the duty of the official receiver to investigate the conduct and affairs of every bankrupt and to make such report ( if any ) to the court as he thinks fit ( s 289(1) ) .
56 It is the duty of the committee to review the adequacy of the trustee 's security ( r 12.8 ) .
57 It is the duty of the trustee to report to the committee all such matters as appear to him or as the committee have indicated to him to be of concern to them with respect to the administration of the estate ( r 6.152(1) ) .
58 In Britain the traditional role of the MP was enunciated by Edmund Burke in the late eighteenth century : it is the duty of the MP , he said , to represent the national interest , not the interest of some section of the community .
59 The mechanics registration It is the duty of the company to submit prescribed particulars of a charge requiring registration to the Registrar who , in turn , is under a statutory obligation to maintain a register setting out these particulars .
60 In turn the Council and the trades unions recognise that it is the duty of all employees to take reasonable care for the health and safety of themselves and other people who may be affected by their acts or omissions at work .
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