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  2. Patent Act of 1952 - Wikipedia

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    § 121 of the Patent Act of 1952 was the first time, when the US Congress addressed the problem of double patenting. Prior to 1952, even when a patent examiner required splitting a patent application into several divisionals, the resulting divisionals were used against each other in courts as grounds for double patenting invalidation. This was ...

  3. List of acts of the Parliament of Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    Repealed by Act 171 Lotteries Act 1952: 288 In force Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Act 1949: 34 In force Majlis Amanah Rakyat Act 1966: 489 In force Malaria Eradication Act 1971: 52 Repealed by Act 342 Malayan Railway Provident Fund (Dissolution) Act 1995: 534 In force Malaysia Co-operative Societies Commission Act 2007: 665 ...

  4. Separate Representation of Voters Act, 1951 - Wikipedia

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    The Separate Representation of Voters Act No. 46 was introduced in South Africa on 18 June 1951. Part of the legislation during the apartheid era, the National Party introduced it to enforce racial segregation, and was part of a deliberate process to remove all non-white people from the voters' roll and revoke the Cape Qualified Franchise system.

  5. Refugee Relief Act - Wikipedia

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    The Refugee Relief Act of 1953 was the United States' second refugee admissions and resettlement law, following the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, which expired at the end of 1952. [1] Under this act, 214,000 immigrants were admitted to the United States, including 60,000 Italians , 17,000 Greeks , 17,000 Dutch , and 45,000 immigrants from ...

  6. Social services - Wikipedia

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    The Act also was the first legislation requiring compulsory schooling within Britain. [9] Another central development for the existence of social services was Switzerland's legislation of the Factory Act in 1877. [ 10 ]

  7. Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953 - Wikipedia

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    Durban beach sign in English, Afrikaans, and Zulu, declaring the beach "Whites only" Before the enactment of the Act in 1953, the courts in South Africa, applied common law, in the absence of any other law to challenges concerning race and use of amenities basing their decision on one of the presumption of equality between the different races in the country.

  8. Employees' Trust Fund - Wikipedia

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    The employer of every employee to whom this Act applies shall be liable to pay an amount equal to three per centum (3%) of the total earnings including Wages, salary or fees, Cost of living allowance, special living allowance and other similar allowances, Payment in respect of holidays, The cost value of cooked or uncooked food provided by the employer to employees, Meal allowance and Any ...

  9. Electricity Supply (Meters) Act 1936 - Wikipedia

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    The Electricity Supply (Meters) Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 32) postponed from 30 June 1953, to 30 June 1958, the date when all electricity meters in use have to be certified. The 1952 Act was repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1971 as expired legislation.