(UK, law) A stock short title used for an Act of Parliament that authorises HM Treasury to issue funds out of the consolidated fund, and which also appropriates those funds for particular use.
“#OTD in 1935: the #WPA 🧵👇 #FDR created the Works Progress Administration with Executive Order #7034 under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 to give unemployed Americans work on projects to improve the lives of Americans generally. PART 1 (of 19) 👉ALT”
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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