Words starting with R

recognised clearing house

Defined in Securities and Futures Act 2001, s 2

“means a corporation that is recognised by the Authority under section 51(1)(b) or (2) as a recognised clearing house”

recognised market operator

Defined in Securities and Futures Act 2001, s 2

“means a corporation that is recognised by the Authority under section 9(1)(b) or (2) as a recognised market operator”

Also defined in 1 other Act

Recognised Organisation

Defined in Merchant Shipping (Maritime Labour Convention) Act 2014, s 2

“means any organisation appointed by the Director under section 5(1) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995, or the Merchant Shipping (Authorised Organisations) Regulations or any regulations made under section 116 of the Merchant Shipping Act …”

recognised technician

Defined in Gambling Control Act 2022, s 3

“means a technician recognised by the Authority”

recognised trade union

Defined in Industrial Relations Act 1960, s 30

“means a trade union the majority of whose membership consists of non‑executive employees and which has been accorded recognition by an employer under section 17 in respect of any non‑executive employees.(2) For the purposes of this Part …”

record

Defined in Copyright Act, s 7

“means a disc, tape, paper or other device in which sounds are embodied”

Also defined in 9 other Acts

recordable donation

Defined in Political Donations Act 2000, s 2

“means a donation required by this Act to be recorded in that report”

recording

Defined in Copyright Act 2021, s 7

“has the meaning given by section 38(1)”

records

Defined in Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority Act 2004, s 25A

“means registers, papers, documents, minutes, receipts, books of account and other records, however compiled, recorded or stored, of the transferor existing on the eve of the transfer date”

Also defined in 13 other Acts

recovery

Defined in Advance Medical Directive Act 1996, s 2

“includes a remission of symptoms or effects of the illness”

recovery body

Defined in Care Shield Life and Long-Term Care Act 2019, s 2

“means a public authority appointed as a recovery body under section 30”

Also defined in 1 other Act

rectification notice

Defined in Online Criminal Harms Act 2023, s 2

“means a notice to rectify any non‑compliance with a code of practice made under section 23”

recurrent costs

Defined in Medical and Elderly Care Endowment Schemes Act 2000, s 2

“means all costs incurred or to be incurred by the provider in relation to its ongoing operations in providing such care other than the following costs:(a)the cost of acquiring the land on which the premises (whether built or to be built) …”

recyclable

Defined in Environmental Public Health Act 1987, s 2

“means any refuse, waste or other material or thing that the Agency may prescribe, with the approval of the Minister, to be capable of being recycled or reused”

recycling facility

Defined in Environmental Public Health Act 1987, s 2

“means any premises used for the sorting, segregation, processing or treatment of refuse, waste or any other material or thing for the primary purpose of recycling or reuse”

Red Channel

Defined in Customs Act 1960, s 3

“means any passage or area in a customs airport or customs station clearly indicated with a sign in the shape of a square marked in red with the words “Customs” and “Goods To Declare””

red crescent emblem

Defined in Geneva Conventions Act 1973, s 2

“means the emblem of a red crescent on a white ground as depicted in Part 1 of the Sixth Schedule”

red cross emblem

Defined in Geneva Conventions Act 1973, s 2

“means the emblem of a red cross on a white ground formed by reversing the Federal Colours of Switzerland as depicted in Part 2 of the Sixth Schedule”

red crystal emblem

Defined in Geneva Conventions Act 1973, s 2

“means the emblem of a red crystal composed of a red frame in the shape of a square on edge on a white ground as depicted in Part 3 of the Sixth Schedule”

red lion and sun emblem

Defined in Geneva Conventions Act 1973, s 2

“means the emblem of a red lion and sun on a white ground as depicted in Part 4 of the Sixth Schedule”

redundancy payment

Defined in Redundancy Payments Fund Act, s 2

“means any sum of money that an employer has agreed or arranged to pay to an employee —(a)whose employment is terminated by reason of redundancy or by reason of the employer ceasing to carry on business for whatever reason or transferring …”

referred application

Defined in Women’s Charter 1961, s 76

“means a maintenance enforcement application referred by the court to an MEO under section 84(1)”

refraction

Defined in Optometrists and Opticians Act 2007, s 2

“means an eye examination to measure the power of vision”

refrigerating plant pressure receiver

Defined in Factories Act, s 7

“means any vessel which contains refrigerant under pressure”

Also defined in 1 other Act

register

Defined in Registered Designs Act 2000, s 2

“means the Register of Designs maintained under section 53”

Also defined in 34 other Acts

register of architects

Defined in Architects Act 1991, s 2

“means the register of architects kept and maintained by the Board under section 8(1)(a)”

register of auditors

Defined in Variable Capital Companies Act 2018, s 2

“means a register of auditors kept by the Registrar under section 173 of the Companies Act 1967 as applied by section 71(1)”

register of controllers

Defined in Companies Act 1967, s 386AB

“means the register that the company is required to keep of its registrable controllers under section 386AF(1), (1A), (2) or (3); and(b)in relation to a foreign company to which this Part applies — means the register that the foreign …”

Also defined in 1 other Act

register of directors

Defined in Variable Capital Companies Act 2018, s 2

“means a register of directors kept by the Registrar under section 173 of the Companies Act 1967 as applied by section 71(1)”

Register of Divorces

Defined in Administration of Muslim Law Act 1966, s 2

“means the Register of Divorces kept by the registrar of the Syariah Court under section 100”