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| Term | Definition | Country | Citation/Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| gainful employment in a recognized occupation | to prepare a student for gainful employment in a recognized occupation but merely stated that any preparation must be for a specific area of employment. APSCU v. Duncan, 870 F. Supp. 2d 133, 150 (D.D.C. 2012). Further, the Department did not depart from the administrative law judge's interpretation in the 2011 Final Rules, as the court in APSCU v. Duncan agreed. See id. Nor is the Department departing from that interpretation with these regulations. |  United States | 79 FR 64889 |
| gainful employment | paid employment for not less than 30 hours in each week for a period of not less than 12 months. |  United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1166 |
| gainful employment | paid employment for not less than 30 hours in each week for a period of not less than 12 months; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 32 |
| gainfully employed | employed or self-employed and, in relation to Ireland, insurably employed or insurably self-employed; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 438 |
| gainfully occupied adult | a person not below the age of 12 years who is engaged on the date of receiving any injury in any trade, profession, office, employment or vocation and wholly or substantially dependent thereon for a livelihood or, who, though temporarily unemployed on the date of receiving any injury, is normally so engaged or dependent; |  Singapore | Cap. 143, RG 1 |
| gainfully occupied in employment | employed as an employed earner or treated as such, in the applicable legislation; | United Kingdom | 1995 No. 2699 |
| gain | the amount realised by the exercise of a subsequent right less any amount which has previously been included in that person’s earnings for the purposes of his assessment of earnings-related contributions in respect of his acquisition, assignment or release of the first right (a just apportionment being made of any entire consideration given for the grant of the right to acquire those shares and other shares or otherwise for the grant of the right to acquire those shares and for something else besides). | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 117 |
| gambling area | those areas of the casino that are indicated on the plan as being the table gaming area, and any other area in which facilities for gambling may be provided; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1409 |
| gambling establishment | any common gaming or gambling establishment operated for the purpose of gaming or gambling, including accepting, recording, or registering bets, or carrying on a policy game or any other lottery, or playing any game of chance, for money or other thing of value. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gambling ship | a vessel used principally for the operation of one or more gambling establishments. Such term does not include a vessel with respect to gambling aboard such vessel beyond the territorial waters of the United States during a covered voyage (as defined in section 4472 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as in effect on January 1, 1994). | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| game card | a device which provides an individual with the opportunity to win one or more prizes in respect of a game of bingo. | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 266 |
| game card | anything (including any electronic device) which provides an individual with the opportunity to win one or more prizes in respect of a game of bingo; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1409 |
| game fishing rod licence | a fishing licence issued by the Board for one rod and line or hand line to fish for, take and kill salmon, freshwater fish and eels; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 525 |
| game handling establishment | an establishment where the preparation of wild game carcases takes place; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 431 |
| game processing facility | premises, other than a slaughter-house, used for the purpose of processing farmed game, farmed game birds or wild game the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 418 |
| gamekeeper | a person engaged by a person with shooting rights to preserve, protect or rear animals and to manage or assist with the management of a shoot; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1028 (W. 95) |
| gametes | sperm or unfertilised ova and any associated fluid of fish, crustaceans or molluscs; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 310 |
| game | a game of chance or mixed chance and skill; |  Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46 |
| gaming equipment | anything that is or may be used for the purpose of playing games or for betting; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46 |
| gaming machine | of the machine, but does not include a machine that dispenses a ticket, token or other device evidencing the right to play or participate in, or receive a prize or winnings in, one or more games of chance unless the device is, for each of those games, sufficient evidence, and in the case of a printed device, contains sufficient information, to ascertain whether the holder of the device is entitled to receive a prize or winnings without reference to any other information; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15 |
| gaming premises | premises which are kept or used (whether on one occasion or more than one) for gaming, and to which the public has or may have access for the playing therein of a game of chance, whether the game of chance be an unlawful game or not; |  Kenya | CAP. 131 |
| gaming supply | a supply referred to in regulation 92C; | Singapore | Cap. 117A, RG 1 |
| gaming | the playing of a game of chance for winnings in money or money’s worth; | Kenya | CAP. 131 |
| gangway | the space provided for obtaining access from any entrance to the passengers’ seats or from any such seat to an exit other than an emergency exit but does not include a staircase or any space in front of a seat or a row of seats which is required only for the use of passengers occupying that seat or row of seats; | Singapore | Cap. 276, R 9 |
| gang | two or more persons; | Kenya | CAP. 62A |
| gap year student | in relation to a course provided by or on behalf of an institution that was publicly funded as at 1st August 2005 a person who meets the conditions in sub-paragraph (a) or (c); | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 333 |
| gap-year student | an eligible student to whom paragraph (5) or (6) applies and who starts a designated course (“the present course”) on or after 1 September 2006. | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1045 (W. 104) |
| gape | the distance when the hook is normally aligned between the point of the hook and the shank of the hook; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 182 |
| gap | any opening (whether or not it is filled); | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 1160 |
| garage | a structure (or part of a structure) in which vehicles may be parked. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| garbage facilities | facilities which enable ships to discharge or deposit garbage; | Singapore | Cap. 243, RG 4 |
| garbage reclamation project | an undertaking by which solid waste products are converted into a form usable by persons for any purpose, including the production of energy. | United States | GOVERNMENT CODE - Title 9 - Ch |
| garbage | all kinds of victual, domestic and operational waste excluding fresh fish and parts thereof, generated during the normal operation of the ship and liable to be disposed of continuously or periodically except sewage originating from ships; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 3018 |
| garbage | all kinds of victual, domestic and operational waste excluding fresh fish and parts thereof, generated during the normal operation of the ship and liable to be disposed of continuously or periodically, except sewage originating from ships. | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 248 |
| garden refuse | the refuse from garden and agricultural operations; | Singapore | Cap. 95 |
| garnishee order | an order made in accordance with the provisions of order 30 of the County Court Rules 1981(3) or order 49 of the Rules of the Supreme Court 1965(4); | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1815 |
| garnishee | a person in respect of whom an order attaching a debt to a judgment debtor has been made under rule 449. | Canada | SOR/98-106 |
| gas distribution losses | unaccounted for gas on the gas distribution system; | Canada | 186/2003 |
| gas appliance | an appliance designed for use by a consumer of gas for heating, lighting, cooking or other purposes for which gas can be used but it does not include a portable or mobile appliance supplied with gas from a cylinder, or the cylinder, pipes and other fittings used for supplying gas to that appliance, save that, for the purposes of regulations 3, 35 and 36, it does include a portable or mobile space heater supplied with gas from a cylinder, and the cylinder, pipes and other fittings used for supplying gas to that heater; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 63 |
| gas business license | an explosion caused by a gas leak due, poisoning, fires and other accidents and casualties. Article 60 These Measures shall go into effect April 1, 2013. 2004 On March 27, Japan River Municipal People's Government issued the "Benxi City Gas Management Measures" (Municipal Decree No. 113) is abolished. |  China | www.chinalaw.gov.cn/article/fgkd/xfg/... |
| gas carrier | a cargo ship constructed or adapted and used for the carriage in bulk of any liquefied gas or other product listed in Chapter 19 of the 1993 edition of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk published by the Organisation; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 2721 |
| gas carrier | a cargo vessel that is constructed or adapted for the carriage in bulk of any liquefied gas or other products listed in Chapter 19 of the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk, published by the International Maritime Organization. | Canada | SOR/2008-275 |
| gas centrifuges | centrifuges as described in the Introductory Note to entry 5.1; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 1255 |
| gas collection system or landfill gas collection system, | of a fan or similar mechanical draft equipment, versus collecting gas passively. Based on a comment received, we are also clarifying that a single landfill may have more than one gas collection system. | United States | 75 FR 66433 |
| gas connection | pipeline(s) or any part thereof connecting the gas main to a gas point for the purposes of the supply of gas (whether or not gas is so supplied); |  Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2004/en/si/04... |
| gas consumer | any person, State agency, or Federal agency, to which natural gas is sold other than for purposes of resale. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gas container | a container fitted to a motor vehicle or a trailer and intended for the storage of natural gas for the purpose of the propulsion of the vehicle or of the drawing vehicle as the case may be; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 2884 |
| gas conveyance licence | a licence under Article 8(1)(a) of the Order; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 447 |
| gas conveyor | the holder of a licence under Article 8(1)(a) of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(2); | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 396 |
| gas cylinder | a container fitted to a motor vehicle or a trailer and intended for the storage of compressed gas for the purpose of the propulsion of the vehicle or the drawing vehicle, as the case may be; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 454 |
| gas day | a period of 24 hours beginning at 6am on one day and ending immediately before 6am on the following day; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 439 |
| gas discharge lamp | a gas discharge lamp that falls within category 5 of Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 3113 |
| gas engine | a positive-ignition engine which is fuelled with natural gas (NG) or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); |  European Union | 32005L0078 |
| gas fittings | any fittings, apparatus and... | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 275 (N.I. 2) |
| gas fitting | any appliance, apparatus or other thing including associated flueing and ventilation equipment which is used in connection with the consumption or use of gas whether the gas fitting is the property of the Board or of some other person; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/en/si/01... |
| gas installation | a discrete grouping of gas fittings linking a gas service pipe to a gas appliance; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas licence | a licence under Article 8 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(3); | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3 |
| gas lift | gas lift by the use of gas not in solution with oil produced. | United States | NATURAL RESOURCES CODE - Title |
| gas lighter | a lighter that uses as fuel liquefied hydrocarbons, such as n-butane and isobutane, that have a gauge vapour pressure at 24°C greater than 100 kPa. | Canada | SOR/2008-231 |
| gas mains network | a network of interconnected gas mains and related equipment; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas main | any gas pipe used for the distribution of gas from a gas transmission pipeline to a consumer but does not include a gas service pipe or an internal pipe; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas meter control valve | a valve at the inlet of any meter used for the purpose of turning on or off a supply of gas through such meter to any gas installation; | Singapore | Cap. 116A, RG 1 |
| gas meter | an instrument designed to measure, memorise and display the quantity of fuel gas (volume or mass) that has passed it; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 1270 |
| gas mixture | any of the combinations of gases listed in Part V; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 402 |
| gas oils intended for use by non-road mobile machinery (including inland waterway vessels), agricultural and forestry tractors, and recreational craft | any petroleum-derived liquid, falling within CN codes 2710 19 41 and 2710 19 45, intended for use in compression ignition engines referred to in Directives 94/25/EC5 , 97/68/EC6 and 2000/25/EC7 ; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2011/en/si/01... |
| gas oil | any petroleum-derived liquid falling within CN codes 2710 19 41 and 2710 19 45;”; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 3078 |
| gas outburst | a sudden release of gas with or without the projection of minerals or rocks; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3248 |
| gas period | one or more successive gas days; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 439 |
| gas pipeline network | any gas pipeline network which is used by the designated gas transporter for the conveyance of gas from any onshore receiving facility; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas pipeline | a hereditament described in regulation 9(1) or (2); | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 422 (W. 40) |
| gas plant | any valve, regulator, plant, pipe, equipment or apparatus used for, or for purposes connected with, the production, processing, conveyance, storage or shipping of gas; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas point | the point at which gas is offtaken from the distribution system for the purpose of supply direct to a particular final customer's premises; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2004/en/si/04... |
| gas processing facility | a facility which carries out gas processing operations; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 3089 |
| gas producer | a gas undertaking carrying out the function of production mentioned in Article 2(1) of the Directive; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 155 |
| gas release system | a system for releasing gas and combustible liquid from an installation, and includes a flare system, a pressure relief system, a depressurizing system and a cold vent system. | Canada | SOR/96-118 |
| gas retailer | a person holding a gas retailer’s licence; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas service isolation valve | a valve, located at or near the boundary line of any property or the apron of any building, used by a gas transporter to isolate the supply of gas to that property or building; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas service worker licence | a licence granted by the Authority under regulation 24; | Singapore | Cap. 116A, RG 1 |
| gas service work | any work carried out on any gas installation or gas appliance, in whole or in part, including any design, construction, installation, commissioning, erection, testing, repair, addition, alteration or maintenance work; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas storage facility | a facility used wholly or mainly for the purpose of storing gas (not being a facility where gas is wholly or mainly stored in natural porous strata); | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 232 |
| gas storage licence | a licence under Article 8(1)(b) of the Order; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 447 |
| gas storage vessel | a storage container designed to be filled or re-filled with gas at the place where it is connected for use or a re-fillable cylinder designed to store gas, and includes the vapour valve; but it does not include a cylinder or cartridge designed to be disposed of when empty; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 2451 |
| gas supplier | a person who is authorised by a licence to supply gas to specified persons or premises; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 412 |
| gas supply licence | a licence under Article 8(1)(c) of the Order; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 447 |
| gas supply undertaking | a person who sells gas to one or more customers, including by the supply to any premises of gas which has been conveyed to those premises through pipes; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 155 |
| gas tightness | the freedom from leak when a gas pipeline network, gas installation or gas fitting is tested at the appropriate test pressure; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas transmission pipe-line | a gas pipe-line used for the purposes of transmission within the meaning of the Directive; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 155 |
| gas transmission system operator | a transmission system operator designated pursuant to Part 3; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2015/en/si/00... |
| gas transmission system | a system for the transport of natural gas through a high pressure pipeline, other than an upstream pipeline, with a view to delivering natural gas to customers; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2015/en/si/00... |
| gas transportation system | a pipe-line system (including any associated apparatus) which subsists wholly or primarily for the purpose of the conveyance of gas through pipes with a view to its supply to consumers situated within the same country or territory as that pipe-line system. | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 2000 |
| gas transporter’s licence | a licence granted under section 7(3)(a); | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas transporter | a person holding a gas transporter’s licence; | Singapore | Cap. 116A |
| gas turbine | any rotating machine which converts thermal energy into mechanical work, consisting mainly of a compressor, a thermal device in which fuel is oxidised in order to heat the working fluid, and a turbine. | European Union | 32001L0080 |
| gas turbine | any rotating machine which converts thermal energy into mechanical work, consisting mainly of a compressor, a thermal device in which fuel is oxidised in order to heat the working fluid, and a turbine; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 160 |
| gas under pressure | a product that consists of a gas contained in a receptacle at a gauge pressure of 200 kPa or more at 20°C, or that is liquefied, or liquefied and refrigerated, but excludes any gas that has an absolute vapour pressure of not more than 300 kPa at 50°C or that is not completely gaseous at 20°C and the standard pressure of 101.3 kPa. | Canada | SOR/2015-17 |
| gas undertaker | a holder of a licence under Article 8 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(25). | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 70 |
| gas undertaker | a holder of a licence under Article 8 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(3); | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 4 |
| gas undertaking | the undertaking of a public gas transporter”. | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 252 |
| gas utility | any person, State agency, or Federal agency, engaged in the local distribution of natural gas, and the sale of natural gas to any ultimate consumer of natural gas. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gaseous diffusion plants | the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant at Paducah, Kentucky and the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant at Piketon, Ohio. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gaseous pollutants | carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons (assuming a ratio of C1H1,85) and oxides of nitrogen, the last-named being expressed in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) equivalent; | European Union | 31988L0077 |
| gaseous pollutants | carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen expressed in terms of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) equivalence. | European Union | 32005L0030 |
| gasification | the substoichiometric oxidation or steam reformation of a substance to produce a gaseous mixture containing two or all of the following: oxides of carbon, methane and hydrogen; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 785 |
| gasoline blend stock | any petroleum product component of gasoline. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gasoline | gasoline type fuels for use in internal combustion engines other than aircraft engines; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15 |
| gastro-oesophageal reflux disease | a chronic clinical condition involving the regurgitation of gastro-duodenal contents into the oesophagus together with resultant chronic symptomatic or histological evidence of oesophageal inflammation. |  Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| gas | a gas classified as a flammable gas, a toxic gas or a non-flammable, non-toxic gas in accordance with Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2092 |
| gas | natural gas — including coal-bed methane — and all substances other than oil that are produced in association with natural gas. | Canada | S.C. 2014, c. 2, s. 2 |
| gateway conditions | that, as in the case of the No. 9 Order for claims made in relation to the “relevant districts”, the UC provisions come into force where a claim for UC is made by a couple who reside in any of the “specified districts” covered by the Order in question and where each member of the couple meets the remaining gateway conditions (the position for claims for ESA/JSA is also the same as for the claims covered by the No. 9 Order). | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 1923 (C. 88) |
| gateway conditions | the conditions specified in Schedule 5 to the No. 9 Order(5); | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 1583 (C. 61) |
| gateway interview | an interview with an employment officer to identify and discuss matters that could help a person find work and matters that are preventing him from finding work; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 2825 |
| gateway office | an appropriate DWP office or an office designated by the appropriate authority which is nominated by the Secretary of State as a gateway office and referred to in a notice upon or attached to a form approved by the appropriate authority for the purpose of claiming council tax benefit; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 216 |
| gateway office | an appropriate social security office or an office designated by the appropriate authority which is nominated by the Secretary of State as a gateway office and referred to in a notice upon or attached to a form approved by the appropriate authority for the purpose of claiming council tax benefit.”. | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1539 |
| gateway | of which instructions are authenticated and encrypted for processing by the system; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 2543 |
| gatherer | from a production area for the purposes of handling and placing on the market; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 994 |
| gazetted | advertised once in the Gazette. | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 3208 |
| gazetted | advertised once in the Gazette; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 1301 |
| gearboxes | transmission gearboxes (i.e. main driveline equipment); | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| gelatin | natural, soluble protein, gelling or non-gelling, obtained by the partial hydrolysis of collagen produced from bones, hides and skins, tendons and sinews of animals (including fish and poultry); | European Union | 32002R1774 |
| gelling agents | substances which give a foodstuff texture through formation of a gel; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2004/en/si/00... |
| gelling agent | any substance which gives a food texture through the formation of a gel; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 416 |
| gender-specific services | services designed to address needs unique to the gender of the individual to whom such services are provided; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gender | the role of women and men in society; | Kenya | CAP. 4C |
| general member | a regulated member registered on the general register; | Canada | 277/2006 |
| general register | the general register category of the regulated members register; | Canada | 277/2006 |
| general CET point | a CET point specified as such under rule 10(2); | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 1473 |
| general Category 1 responder | a person or body listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 494 |
| general Federal pay increase | an adjustment (if an increase) in the rates of pay under the General Schedule under subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general Order | an Order made under the 1981 Order or repealed by the 1981 Order other than this Order or a special disease Order; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 272 |
| general UK Government security | a UK Government security that is not an eligible debt security;”; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1633 |
| general account | an interest bearing account opened in the name of the Board, the title of which does not identify any assisted person.”. | United Kingdom | 1995 No. 1065 (S. 91) |
| general air traffic | all movements of civil aircraft as well as all movements of State aircraft when these movements are carried out in accordance with the Chicago Convention; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 2562 |
| general assembly | of the articles of incorporation or by a resolution at a meeting of the general assembly" in the proviso in Article 66 shall be deemed to be replaced with "by articles of incorporation"; the term "Article 123, paragraph (2)" in Article 68, paragraph (3), item (i) shall be deemed to be replaced with "Article 123, paragraph (2) as applied mutatis mutandis pursuant to Article 199"; and the term "Article 38, paragraph (1), item (i)" in Article 74, paragraph (3) shall be deemed to be replaced with "Article 181, paragraph (1), item (i)". |  Japan | Act No. 48 of 2006 |
| general authorisation | a legal framework established by the Member State ensuring rights for the provision of electronic communications networks or services and laying down sector specific obligations that may apply to all or to specific types of electronic communications networks and services, in accordance with this Directive; | European Union | 32002L0020 |
| general aviation airport | an airport that is not a commercial service airport. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general aviation operation | an aircraft operation other than a commercial air transport operation or aerial work operation; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 2870 |
| general betting (standard) (real events) operating licence | a licence which falls within paragraph (b) of the definition of a “general betting (standard) operating licence”, but which is not a general betting (standard)(virtual events) operating licence”; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1837 |
| general betting (standard) (virtual events) operating licence | a licence which falls within paragraph (b) of the definition of a “general betting (standard) operating licence” and which only authorises the holder to provide facilities for betting on the outcome of a virtual game, race or other event or process(3);”; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1837 |
| general binding rules | rules specified in... | United Kingdom | 2003 asp 3 |
| general binding rule | a standard rule published under regulation 26. | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 390 |
| general business amount | the aggregate of the company’s insurance liabilities (net of reinsurance) in respect of general business and an amount equal to whichever is the greater of 400,000 units of account or 20 per cent. of the general premium income; | United Kingdom | 1995 No. 3248 |
| general business assets | the assets of a composite insurer which are, or should properly be, apportioned to that insurer’s general business, in accordance with the requirements of Article 14 of the first life insurance directive (separate management of long term and general business of a composite insurer); | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1102 |
| general business liabilities | the debts of a composite insurer which are attributable to the general business carried on by that insurer; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 353 |
| general business preferential debts | those debts mentioned in regulation 24(1) and, unless the court orders otherwise, any expenses of the winding up which are apportioned to the general business assets in accordance with regulation 30. | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 353 |
| general cargo harbor | a harbor for which a project is authorized by section 202 of this title and any other harbor which is authorized to be constructed to a depth of more than 20 feet but not more than 45 feet; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general cargo | any cargo other than oil and chemical cargo but includes packaged dangerous goods; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 3223 |
| general cash account | the general cash account of the funds of suitors held with the financial institution in the name of the Accountant; | Ireland | Number 31 of 2004 |
| general charge | a charge under regulations 4(1)or 9; | United Kingdom | 1995 No. 361 |
| general client account | an account (whether a current account or deposit account) opened and kept by a solicitor at a bank in his or her name designated for clients’ moneys, received, held or controlled by him or her in respect of more than one client. | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2014/en/si/05... |
| general conditions | the general conditions for the exercise of a stabilisation power set out in section 7; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3329 |
| general consent | a consent under... | United Kingdom | 2009 c. 4 |
| general core programme | a core programme identified under regulation 15H(2)(a) as a core programme for all registered persons; | Singapore | Cap. 76, RG 1 |
| general dairy farm visit | any other dairy farm visit; | United Kingdom | 1995 No. 1122 |
| general direction | a direction authorised by article 18 below; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 2574 |
| general duty | that the source remains subject to the otherwise applicable emission limitation during the SSM event and is thus liable for violating the emission limitation. If those general duties were independent parts of an emission limitation (rather than merely preconditions for an exemption), then one would expect that periods of time could exist when the source was liable for violating those general duties rather than the default emission limitation. | United States | 80 FR 33839 |
| general election year | any year in which there is a general election of elected members of the Council; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2125 |
| general election | an election to elect all the elected members of the Council; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 2463 |
| general eligibility criteria | the criteria in regulation 15; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2043 |
| general emergency alarm signal | a succession of seven or more short blasts followed by one long blast on the whistle or siren of a vessel. | Canada | SOR/2010-83 |
| general emergency alarm system | a system complying with the requirements of Schedule 11, Part 1 of MSN 1676(M); | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 2721 |
| general environmental conditions | the environmental conditions set out in Part I of Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1176 |
| general expenses | the direct and indirect costs, charges and expenses of producing and selling goods for export, other than the costs, charges and expenses referred to in paragraph (2)(a) and subsection (3). | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.) |
| general framework of regional development | that the regional subsidy programs are part of an internally consistent and generally applicable regional development policy, and that regional development subsidies are not granted in isolated geographical points having no, or virtually no, influence on the development of a region. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general funds of the Council | the funds of the Council other than the Fund. | Singapore | Cap. 193A |
| general health services | Part VI services being primary medical services, general dental services, general ophthalmic services or pharmaceutical services, provided under the Order; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 27 |
| general holiday | New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Victoria Day, Canada Day, Labour Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day and Boxing Day and includes any day substituted for any such holiday pursuant to section 195; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. L-2 |
| general incorporated association, etc. | a general incorporated association or a general incorporated foundation; | Japan | Act No. 48 of 2006 |
| general industrial use | a use falling within Class B2 (general industrial) of the Schedule to the Use Classes Order; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 596 |
| general insurance business | insurance business of any class or classes not being long term insurance business; | Kenya | CAP. 487 |
| general insurance debt | an insurance debt which is attributable to the general business of the insurer; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 353 |
| general insurer | a UK insurer who carries on exclusively general business; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 353 |
| general landings charge | a charge calculated under paragraph 2; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 285 |
| general level of prices | the general level of prices in Great Britain determined in such manner as the Secretary of State thinks fit. | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 1257 |
| general level of prices | the general level of prices in Great Britain determined in such manner as the Secretary of State thinks fit; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 715 |
| general licence | a licence granted by a licensing body that includes all works of the description to which it applies; | Ireland | Number 28 of 2000 |
| general lighting application | lighting that provides an interior or exterior area with overall illumination. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general local authority security | a local authority security that is not an eligible debt security; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1633 |
| general local content requirement | the average annual level of production localisation defined in Annex 1 to Order 73. | European Union | 22012A0229(03) |
| general manager | the general manager of the Authority, referred to in article 66; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 3463 |
| general meeting | an annual general meeting or a special general meeting; | Ireland | Number 15 of 1997 |
| general merits criteria | the criteria set out in Part 4 (general merits criteria); | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 104 |
| general metal primer | a coating designed for application as primers, such as adhesion promoters, sealers, surfacers, undercoats, plastic primers, wet-on-wet, non-sand fillers and spray fillers; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 2773 |
| general moneys of the Fund | the moneys of the Fund (whether or not standing to the credit of any member in the Fund) that are not accounted for in any subsidiary account maintained for a member in respect of the money standing to his credit in the Fund; | Singapore | Cap. 36 |
| general motor truck transportation business | the business of transporting freight for value by vehicles (excluding small-size vehicles with three wheels or more and motorcycles, hereinafter the same shall apply in the following paragraph and paragraph (7)) other than special motor truck transportation business upon demands by other persons. | Japan | Act No. 83 of 1989 |
| general needs housing | housing that is not shared ownership accommodation or supported housing accommodation; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 165 |
| general notice | a notice published by him at a time and in a manner appearing to him suitable for securing that the notice is seen within a reasonable time by persons likely to be affected by it; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 439 |
| general partnership | any partnership other than a limited partnership. | Canada | S.C. 1991, c. 46 |
| general permit | a permit to export issued by the Minister under section 17; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. C-51 |
| general permit | of issuing permits and provide a quicker and simpler alternative mechanism for permitting minor sources than the site-specific permitting process discussed previously. | United States | 76 FR 38747 |
| general postcode address | the outward part of the postcode of an address; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1831 |
| general public sector security | a public sector security that is not an eligible debt security; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1633 |
| general purpose electric motor (subtype I) | any motor that meets the definition of "General Purpose" as established in the final rule issued by the Department of Energy entitled "Energy Efficiency Program for Certain Commercial and Industrial Equipment: Test Procedures, Labeling, and Certification Requirements for Electric Motors" (10 CFR 431), as in effect on December 19, 2007. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general purpose food additive | any substance which serves a useful and specific purpose during either the processing or packing of a food and shall include processing aid. | Singapore | Cap. 283, RG 1 |
| general qualification requirements | the requirements set out in Chapter 3 of Part 4; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2011 |
| general quota region | the United Kingdom other than the Scottish Islands area; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 911 (W. 94) |
| general radio communications | operational and public correspondence traffic, other than distress, urgency and safety messages, conducted by radio; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 3210 |
| general radiotelecommunications | operational and public correspondence traffic, other than distress, urgency and safety messages, conducted by radio; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 2070 |
| general railway services | any service which consists of, or is comprised in, maintaining, modifying, repairing or hiring out rolling stock; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1998 |
| general reinsurance broker | a person who is for the time being registered under section 35X in respect of reinsurance of liabilities under insurance policies relating to general business; | Singapore | Cap. 142 |
| general requirements | the public body, cooperative or Federal agency customer's electric power purchased from the Administrator under section 839c(b) of this title, exclusive of any new large single load. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general responder | a general Category 1 responder or a general Category 2 responder; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 2042 |
| general restrictions in Part 2 | paragraphs 1 to 6 of Part 2.”. | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 3006 |
| general retirement system | any pension, annuity, retirement, or similar fund or system established by a State or by a political subdivision thereof for employees of the State, political subdivision, or both; but such term shall not include such a fund or system which covers only service performed in positions connected with the operation of its public transportation system. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| general safety requirement | the requirement that only safe products should be placed on the market; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 1803 |
| general sale exemption | an exemption from regulation 220 conferred by a provision of Chapter 3. | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 1916 |
| general search | a search (other than an Internet search) over any period of years for any number of entries, made by any person with the permission of the Registrar General or the district registrar; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 575 |
| general statistical surveys | surveys other than fundamental statistical surveys among statistical surveys conducted by administrative organs. | Japan | Act No. 53 of 2007 |
| general store | premises on which a trade or business consisting wholly or mainly of the sale by retail of both food for human consumption (other than confectionery) and general household goods is carried on; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 331 (W. 44) |
| general system Directives | of defining professions covered by regulated education and training. | European Union | 32001L0019 |
| general teaching space | teaching space other than teaching space of the kinds described in sub-paragraphs (b), (d) and (f) below; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1066 |
| general travel authority | any permit (including one issued by a third person), other than a fare ticket, authorising the person in respect of whom it is issued to travel on a tram service (whether or not it also authorises him to make a journey on a service provided by a third person); | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1614 |
| general written determination | any written determination other than a reference written determination. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| generally accepted accounting principles | the broad guidelines or detailed procedures of accounting for the time being generally accepted in a country; | Kenya | CAP. 472 |
| generally accepted government auditing standards | the government auditing standards issued by the Comptroller General; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| generally | that a standard must be generally accepted in the relevant medical community. There are many different sources that would meet this requirement. For example, a plan may follow the most current version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the most current version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), or a State guideline. All of these would be considered acceptable resources to determine whether benefits for a particular condition are classified as medical/surgical, mental health, or substance use disorder benefits. | United States | 75 FR 5409 |
| general | not granted to a particular person but available for use generally; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3231 |
| generate | generate for the purpose of giving a supply of electricity to any premises or enabling a supply of electricity to be so given; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 118 |
| generating facility | all contiguous property owned, leased, or otherwise controlled by the hazardous secondary material generator. For the purposes of § 261.2(a)(2)(ii) and § 261.4(a)(23), a facility that collects hazardous secondary materials from other persons is not the hazardous secondary material generator. | United States | 73 FR 64668 |
| generating facility | the facility which produces low carbon electricity generation for the purposes of a CFD; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2012 |
| generating licence | a licence authorising a person to generate electrical energy; | Kenya | CAP. 314 |
| generating plant | plant in or on the hereditament which is used or available for use for the purposes of generating electricity. | United Kingdom | 2000 No. 947 |
| generating plant | plant in or on the hereditament which is used or available for use for the purposes of generating electricity; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 118 |
| generating set | a prime mover and alternator; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 248 |
| generating station developer | the operator of the station, or a person who arranged for the construction of the station. | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2388 |
| generating station | a generator or generators used for the sole purpose of the production of electricity together with any associated apparatus and works so far as lying seaward of the low water mark of ordinary spring tides. | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 180 |
| generating station | a relevant nuclear installation designed or used, or which has at any time been used, for the purpose of generating electricity with a view to giving a supply to any premises or enabling a supply to be given; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 665 |
| generating unit | a unit of a generating station; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2014/en/si/04... |
| generation counterparty payment | any CFD counterparty payment made under, or in respect of a breach of, a CFD or connected agreement which is calculated directly by reference to an amount of electricity generated by a generating station which is the subject of that CFD or connected agreement; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2014 |
| generation licensee | a person who is authorised by an electricity licence to generate electricity; | Singapore | Cap. 89A |
| generation party payment | any CFD party payment made under a CFD or connected agreement which is calculated directly by reference to an amount of electricity generated by a generating station which is the subject of that CFD or connected agreement; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2014 |
| generation period four | 1st January 2009 to 31st December 2011; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1905 |
| generation period one | 1st January 2006 to 31st December 2008; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1905 |
| generation period three | 1st January 2008 to 31st December 2010; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1905 |
| generation period two | 1st January 2007 to 31st December 2009; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1905 |
| generation periods | any or all of the generation periods one, two, three or four, as the context admits; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1905 |
| generation | the production of electricity; | European Union | 32003L0054 |
| generator operator | plant operator or the transmission operator responsible for generation. | United States | 72 FR 16416 |
| generator site | the site owned (or occupied pursuant to a lease, licence or other agreement) by the generator which contains the connection point; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2008/en/si/03... |
| generator unit | a unit of a generating station; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2007/en/si/04... |
| generator | a device that produces electricity and which is reported as a generating unit pursuant to Department of Energy Form 860. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| generator | a person licensed to generate electricity or exempt from the requirement to be licensed to generate electricity; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2007/en/si/04... |
| generic base acres | the number of base acres for cotton in effect under section 8702 of this title, as adjusted pursuant to section 8711 of this title, as in effect on September 30, 2013, subject to any adjustment or reduction under section 9012 of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| generic requirement | a description of acceptable product attributes for use by local exchange carriers in establishing product specifications for the purchase of telecommunications equipment, customer premises equipment, and software integral thereto. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| generic services | gateway services linking one or more national infrastructure(s) to core service platform(s); | European Union | 32014R0283 |
| genetic data | data relating to a living person derived from genetic testing of the person; | Ireland | Number 14 of 2005 |
| genetic erosion | loss of genetic diversity between and within populations of varieties of the same species over time or reduction of the genetic basis of a species due to human intervention or environmental change;”; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 223 |
| genetic information | by which individuals can obtain information and support about potential risks for genetic diseases and disorders. The Department proposed to add the statutory definition of “genetic services” to the Privacy Rule. | United States | 78 FR 5565 |
| genetic material | any material of plant origin, including reproductive and vegetative propagating material, containing functional units of heredity; | European Union | 22004A1223(02) |
| genetic modification | the alteration of genetic material otherwise than by mating or natural recombination or both; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2092 |
| genetic monitoring | the periodic examination of employees to evaluate acquired modifications to their genetic material, such as chromosomal damage or evidence of increased occurrence of mutations, that may have developed in the course of employment due to exposure to toxic substances in the workplace, in order to identify, evaluate, and respond to the effects of or control adverse environmental exposures in the workplace. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| genetic tests | tests based on DNA variations; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 1428 |
| genetic test | an analysis of human DNA, RNA, chromosomes, proteins, or metabolites, that detects genotypes, mutations, or chromosomal changes. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| genetically engineered or modified food | food and food ingredients composed of or containing genetically modified or engineered organisms obtained through modern biotechnology, or food and food ingredients produced from but not containing genetically modified or engineered organisms obtained through modern biotechnology; |  India | NO. 34 OF 2006 |
| genetically modified feed | feed containing, consisting of or produced from GMOs; | European Union | 32003R1829 |
| genetically modified food | food containing, consisting of or produced from GMOs; | European Union | 32003R1829 |
| genetically modified micro-organisms and organisms | micro-organisms and organisms in which genetic material has been altered through genetic modification in a way that does not occur naturally; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2092 |
| genetically modified micro-organism | a micro-organism in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating or natural recombination, or by a combination of both; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/si/00... |
| genetically modified organism (GMO) | an organism, with the exception of human beings, in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination; | European Union | 32001L0018 |
| genetically modified organism for feed use | a GMO that may be used as feed or as a source material for the production of feed; | European Union | 32003R1829 |
| genetically modified organism for food use | a GMO that may be used as food or as a source material for the production of food; | European Union | 32003R1829 |
| genetically modified organisms | a genetically modified organism or a combination of genetically modified organisms; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 3188 (W. 304) |
| genetically modified organism | a genetically modified organism as defined in Article 2(2) of Directive 2001/18/EC, excluding organisms obtained through the techniques of genetic modification listed in Annex I B to Directive 2001/18/EC; | European Union | 32003R1829 |
| genetically modified | the condition in paragraph 14 of Schedule 4; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 1207 (W. 79) |
| genocide | any of... | United Kingdom | 2001 c. 17 |
| genome | the totality of the deoxyribonucleic acid sequence of a particular cell. | Canada | S.C. 2004, c. 2 |
| genotoxicity | the alteration of the structure, information content or segregation of DNA by an agent or process, including those agents or processes that cause DNA damage by interfering with normal replication processes or that in a non-physiological manner temporarily alter its replication. | Canada | SOR/2015-17 |
| genuine police badge | an official badge issued by public authority to identify an individual as a law enforcement officer having police powers; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| genuine | free of forgery or counterfeit; | Canada | S.C. 1991, c. 46 |
| genuine | free of forgery or counterfeiting. | Canada | S.C. 1998, c. 1 |
| geo-park | an area of natural heritage; | Kenya | CAP. 216 |
| geo-reference | the reference of an object using a specific location either on, above or below the earth’s surface; | Kenya | CAP. 300 |
| geochemical surveys | surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of chemistry as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geographic area served by the hospital | zip codes that are next to (or contiguous to) each other. A hospital should look at its inpatient data to determine where patients live and then calculate the lowest number of zip codes that touch at least one other zip code in which the inpatients reside. Our specific responses are as follows. | United States | 72 FR 51012 |
| geographic area within a State | a special purpose district or other region recognized for governmental purposes within such State which is not a unit of local government. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geographic area | a State, metropolitan city, urban county, town, village, or other nonentitlement area, or a combination or consortia of such, in the United States, as described in section 5306 of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geographic number | a number from the national numbering plan where part of its digit structure contains geographic significance used for routing calls to the physical location of the network termination point (NTP); | European Union | 32002L0022 |
| geographical area of the BID | the geographical area of the business improvement district in respect of which the BRS-BID arrangements are proposed or made; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3204 |
| geographical area | a geographical area that covers all or a part of the State; | Ireland | Number 19 of 2013 |
| geographical indication | an indication as defined in Article 22(1) of the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (hereinafter referred to as "the TRIPS Agreement"); | European Union | 22010A0130(02) |
| geographical information system | a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, integrating, manipulating, analysing and displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 540 (W. 52) |
| geographical unit | any of the geographical units to which Schedule 7 apples. | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 2599 (W. 232) |
| geographically constituent unit of local government | a unit of local government that has jurisdiction over areas located within the boundaries of an area over which a unit of local government certified pursuant to clause (i) has jurisdiction. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geographically disadvantaged States | coastal States, including States bordering enclosed or semi-enclosed seas, whose geographical situation makes them dependent upon the exploitation of the living resources of the exclusive economic zones of other States in the subregion or region for adequate supplies of fish for the nutritional purposes of their populations or parts thereof, and coastal States which can claim no exclusive economic zones of their own. | Ireland | Number 8 of 2006 |
| geography document | the document published by the Welsh Ministers in January 2008 entitled “Geography in the National Curriculum for Wales”(6); | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 1409 (W. 146) |
| geologic instability. | of constructing the models to adequately make simulations of future performance that reflect the range of potential expected conditions at the site over the regulatory compliance period. Parameter value distributions used in the simulations, which are the fundamental input information used to make the dose assessments, should not be limited only to data collected for the present situation at the site, but should consider how those parameter values could change over the period of stability. Expert judgment, where appropriate, based upon site-specific information and broader understanding of how these processes operate in general, plays an important role in defining such modeling input data. | United States | 73 FR 61256 |
| geologic mapping program | the National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program established by section 31c(a) of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geological storage of CO2 | “geological storage of CO2” within the meaning of Article 3(1) of Directive 2009/31/EC; | European Union | 32010D0345 |
| geological storage of carbon dioxide | injection accompanied by storage of CO2 streams in underground geological formations; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2010/en/si/03... |
| geological surveys | surveys on the ground for mineral deposits by the proper application of the principles and techniques of the science of geology as they relate to the search for and discovery of mineral deposits; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geological work | work, in the field or laboratory, involving the collection, examination, processing or other analysis of lithological, paleontological or geochemical materials recovered from the seabed or subsoil of any portion of the offshore area and includes the analysis and interpretation of mechanical well logs; | Canada | S.C. 1987, c. 3 |
| geophysical surveys | surveys on the ground for mineral deposits through the employment of generally recognized equipment and methods for measuring physical differences between rock types or discontinuities in geological formations; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geophysical work | work involving the indirect measurement of the physical properties of rocks in order to determine the depth, thickness, structural configuration or history of deposition thereof and includes the processing, analysis and interpretation of material or data obtained from such work; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 36 (2nd Supp. |
| geopressure | electricity generated using naturally occurring subterranean pressure; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 785 |
| geospatial information | graphical or digital data depicting natural or manmade physical features, phenomena, or boundaries of the earth and any information related thereto, including surveys, maps, charts, remote sensing data, and images. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| geotechnical specialist | a person who is suitably qualified and competent to perform a geotechnical analysis to determine the hazard and risk arising from the tip being assessed. | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3248 |
| geotechnical specialist | a professional engineer or professional geologist competent to carry out a geotechnical assessment under Part 6; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2008/en/si/00... |
| geotechnical work | work, in the field or laboratory, undertaken to determine the physical properties of materials recovered from the seabed or subsoil of any portion of the offshore area; | Canada | S.C. 1987, c. 3 |
| geothermal energy | energy stored in the form of heat beneath the surface of solid earth;”; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 2715 |
| geothermal | electricity generated using naturally occurring subterranean heat; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 785 |
| germ cell mutagen | a mixture or substance that is liable to lead to an increased occurrence of mutations in the germ cells of a population. | Canada | SOR/2015-17 |
| germination condition | the condition in paragraph 13 of Schedule 4; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 3036 (W. 224) |
| germination | the percentage of seeds capable of producing normal seedlings under ordinarily favorable conditions (not including seeds which produce weak, malformed, or obviously abnormal sprouts), determined by methods prescribed under section 1593 of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gestational mother | a woman who gives birth to a child conceived under a gestational agreement. | United States | FAMILY CODE - Title 5 - Chapte |
| giant cell arteritis | a systemic, inflammatory, vascular syndrome of the large and medium-sized arteries that predominantly affects the temporal arteries. It is also known as temporal arteritis, cranial arteritis or Horton’s disease or syndrome. | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| gift loan | any below-market loan where the forgoing of interest is in the nature of a gift. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gift | a gift of money made for the year of assessment by the donor to, and accepted by, the authorised officer and calculated in accordance with subsection (2), where the gift is for use for any purpose for or towards which public moneys are provided; | Ireland | Number 5 of 2010 |
| gift | a gift, grant, donation, or bequest of money or property accepted under Section 60.124, Water Code, that has a value of $500 or more. | United States | SPECIAL DISTRICT LOCAL LAWS CO |
| gigawatt hour | one million kilowatt hours; | United Kingdom | 2001 No. 4011 |
| gill nets | any type of gill nets, driftnets, bottom set gill nets, trammel nets and entangling nets. | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/si/02... |
| gill nets | any type of gill nets, driftnets, bottom set gill nets, trammel nets and entangling nets; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/si/03... |
| gill net | any length of net designed for the purpose of catching fish, by enmeshing them; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 441 |
| gill tags issues register | a register in the form set out in Schedule 5 or a form to the like effect; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2006/en/si/06... |
| gill tag | a gill tag approved by the Commission; | United Kingdom | 2001 No. 159 |
| gilt | a female pig intended for breeding after puberty and before farrowing; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 388 |
| gilt | a young female swine that has not produced a litter. | United States | 73 FR 28606 |
| ginger | the edible root of the ginger plant in a fresh or preserved state and may be dried or preserved in syrup; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 553 (W. 56) |
| ginger | the edible root of the ginger plant in a fresh or preserved state. Ginger may be dried or preserved in syrup. | European Union | 32001L0113 |
| gingivitis | an acute or chronic inflammation of the gums, limited to the mucosal epithelial tissue surrounding the cervical portion of the teeth and the alveolar processes. This definition includes gingival abscess, peri-implant mucositis, linear gingival erythema, plasma cell gingivitis, desquamative gingivitis and acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis. This definition excludes oral aphthae, gingival recession, gingival hyperplasia and overgrowth, primary herpetic gingivostomatitis, and destructive gingival inflammation extending beyond the gums into the underlying supporting structures of the teeth. | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| ginned cotton | cotton fibres (other than linters and waste), neither carded nor combed, from which the seeds and most of the pod and leaf fragments and soil matter have been removed. | European Union | 32001R1051 |
| ginseng | ginseng products classified under heading No. 12.11 or 13.02 of the schedule to the Customs Tariff. | Canada | S.C. 2014, c. 28 |
| girth | twice the combined depth and width of a postal packet; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2012/en/si/02... |
| give-way line | a road marking placed adjacent to a Zebra crossing in accordance with regulation 6(1) and Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 2400 |
| given birth | delivered a living child or, after twenty-four weeks of pregnancy, a stillborn child; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 2962 |
| give | send or deliver it to the addressee; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 68 |
| glandless circulator | a circulator with the rotor directly coupled to the impeller and the rotor immersed in the pumped medium; | European Union | 32012R0622 |
| glass container | a glass container designed to contain a beverage, including a bottle or jar. | United States | HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE - Title |
| glasshouse | any building or structure made substantially of glass or other transparent or translucent material which is capable of being artificially heated and which is used for growing horticultural produce; | Ireland | Number 2 of 1999 |
| glazing agents | substances which, when applied to the external surface of a foodstuff, impart a shiny appearance or provide a protective coating; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2004/en/si/00... |
| glazing agent | any substance which, when applied to the external surface of a food, imparts a shiny appearance or provides a protective coating, and includes lubricants; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 416 |
| glazing measure | the installation of secondary or replacement glazing; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 3018 |
| glazing or polishing agent | a food additive that, when applied to the external surface of a food, imparts a shiny appearance or provides a protective coating. | Canada | SOR/2012-208 |
| gleaner | a person who harvests for free distribution to the needy, or for donation to a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to the needy, an agricultural crop that has been donated by the owner. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| global change | changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the Earth to sustain life; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| global grant body | a body entrusted under Article 42(1) with the management and implementation of a part of either of the Operational Programmes; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 3623 |
| global maritime distress and safety services | the automated ship-to-shore distress alerting system which uses satellite and advanced terrestrial systems for international distress communications and promoting maritime safety in general. The GMDSS permits the worldwide alerting of vessels, coordinated search and rescue operations, and dissemination of maritime safety information. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| global navigation, positioning and timing equipment | any civil end user equipment designed to transmit, receive, or process satellite-based navigation or timing signals to provide a service, or to operate with a regional augmentation; | European Union | 22014A0120(01) |
| global nuclear detection architecture | the global nuclear detection architecture developed under section 592 of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| global systemically important institution | a group identified as a global systemically important bank by the Financial Stability Board in Annex 1 to the “2013 update of group of global systemically important banks” published by the Financial Stability Board on 11 November 2013; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 3118 |
| global systemically important insurer | an insurance undertaking, third country insurance undertaking, reinsurance undertaking or third country reinsurance undertaking which is included on the list of global systemically important insurers published by the Financial Stability Board on 18 July 2013, or on any updated version of that list or supplementary list of such undertakings published by the Financial Stability Board; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2080 |
| glossy coatings for interior walls and ceilings | coatings designed for application to indoor walls and ceilings with a degree of gloss >25@60°; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 2773 |
| gluten | the proteins that naturally occur in a gluten-containing grain and that may cause adverse health effects in persons with celiac disease (e.g., prolamins and glutelins). | United States | 78 FR 47154 |
| goal of maintenance testing is to identify a method that verifies continued optimal performance of E9-1-1 location systems at the local level. | to validate latency (TTFF) and C/U Data, as standardized in the rule changes we adopt today. | United States | 80 FR 11805 |
| goat herdmark | the goat herdmark allocated by the Minister pursuant to article 3; | United Kingdom | 2000 No. 2027 |
| goat identification number | the number on an ear-tag attached to a goat that is specific to that goat; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/si/07... |
| goats | all domestic animals of the caprine species; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 1480 |
| goat | a live goat; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 1357 (W. 133) |
| going Federal rate | the annual rate of interest which the Secretary of the Treasury shall specify as applicable to the six-month period (consisting of January through June or July through December) which includes the issuance date of such debentures, which applicable rate for each such six-month period shall be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury by estimating the average yield to maturity, on the basis of daily closing market bid quotations or prices during the month of May or the month of November, as the case may be, next preceding such six-month period, on all outstanding marketable obligations of the United States having a maturity date of eight to twelve years from the first day of such month of May or November (or, if no such obligations are outstanding, the obligation next shorter than eight years and the obligation next longer than twelve years, respectively, shall be used), and by adjusting such estimated average annual yield to the nearest one-eight of 1 per centum. The Secretary shall have the same authority with respect to mortgages assigned to him under this paragraph as contained in sections 1713(k) and 1713(l) of this title as to mortgages insured by the Secretary and assigned to him under section 1713 of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| going out of business sale | an offer to sell to the public, or the sale to the public of, goods, wares, and merchandise on the implied or direct representation by written or oral advertising that the sale is in anticipation of the termination of all of the operations of a business at all of its locations in a county and in all of the counties immediately adjacent to that county. | United States | BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE - T |
| goitre | an enlarged thyroid gland, which can be a diffuse enlargement, a solitary nodule or multiple nodules of the thyroid gland, and which persists for at least two weeks. Goitre causes a palpable or visible swelling in the front of the neck, or is identified by imaging assessment. The diagnosis is not dependent on abnormal thryoid hormone levels. | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| gold mine | a mine which produces gold either alone or in conjunction with any other mineral; | Kenya | CAP. 311 |
| gold-plated silver coin | a silver coin plated wholly or partly with gold;”. | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 264 |
| gold-plated silver coin | a silver coin plated wholly or partly with gold; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 1764 |
| golden samples | to infer compliance of the untested product units, the testing of “not a golden sample” representative samples cannot ensure continued compliance, as required by section 14(i)(2)(B)(ii) of the CPSA. | United States | 77 FR 72205 |
| gold | gold coin and bullion and includes any gold in whatever state or form other than gold which has been materially increased in value by skilled craftsmanship; | Singapore | Cap. 99 |
| gondola | a gondola forming part of the cable car system; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 472 |
| good cause | a significant risk to a person’s life or health. | Canada | C.R.C., c. 385 |
| good faith effort | if the local public health agency cannot provide the information. | United States | 72 FR 57782 |
| good faith purchaser | a purchaser for value in good faith and without notice of any adverse claim who takes delivery of a debt obligation. | Canada | S.C. 2009, c. 23 |
| good faith | by which to ensure that the Complete EHR or EHR Module satisfies the certification criteria. Moreover, an attestation by a Complete EHR or EHR Module developer and/or user of a Complete EHR or EHR Module would not be an acceptable alternative to recertification because the National Coordinator could not sufficiently confirm that all applicable certification criteria are met. | United States | 76 FR 1261 |
| good groundwater status | the status achieved by a body of groundwater when both its quantitative status and its chemical status are at least ‘good’; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2007/en/si/06... |
| good manufacturing practice (GMP) | that part of quality assurance which ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled in accordance with the quality standards appropriate for their intended use and as required by the applicable marketing authorisation or product specifications. | European Union | 22001A1029(01) |
| good manufacturing practice | the part of quality assurance which ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled in accordance with the quality standards appropriate to their intended use, the principles and guidelines of which are specified in Commission Directive 2003/94/EC(4).”. | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 1678 |
| good manufacturing practice | the part of quality assurance which ensures that products are consistently produced and controlled in accordance with the quality standards appropriate to their intended use; | European Union | 32003L0094 |
| good of a Party | domestic products as these are understood in the GATT 1994 or such goods or products as the Parties may agree, and includes products or goods originating in that Party as defined in Article 19; | European Union | 22012A1221(01) |
| good pharmacovigilance practice | the Guidelines on Pharmacovigilance for Medicinal Products for Human Use published by the European Commission pursuant to Article 106 of the 2001 Directive; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 551 |
| good surface water status | the status achieved by a surface water body when both its ecological status and its chemical status are at least ‘good’; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/si/02... |
| good technical quality | good technical quality as regards the purity criteria;”; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 694 |
| goods carrier | a motor vehicle, vessel, boat, animal and any form of conveyance used for carrying goods; | India | NO. 27 OF 2005 |
| goods compartment | a part of a conveyance intended or adapted for the transport of goods or burden; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 1093 |
| goods declaration | a statement made in the form prescribed by the customs by which the persons interested indicate the customs procedure to be applied to the goods and furnish the particulars which the customs require to be declared for the application of that procedure; | European Union | 31977D0415 |
| goods delivered to offshore installations | the delivery of products for the crew and for the operation of engines, machines and other equipment of offshore installation; | European Union | 32010R0096 |
| goods exported with notification of intended return | goods specified by the declarant as intended for reimportation, in respect of which identification measures may be taken by the customs to facilitate reimportation in the same state; | European Union | 31980D0391 |
| goods imported for sports purposes | sports requisites and other articles for use by travellers in sports contests or demonstrations or for training taking place in the customs territory of the Community. | European Union | 31993R3665 |
| goods in free circulation | goods which may be disposed of without customs restriction; | European Union | 31985D0204 |
| goods in transit | any controlled goods imported into the Territory for transit or transhipment; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 3102 |
| goods named individually | those goods whose proper shipping names do not include either an asterisk or the letters “NOS”; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2092 |
| goods of the same class or kind | goods which fall within a range of goods produced by a particular industry or industrial sector and includes identical or similar goods; | Kenya | CAP. 472 |
| goods or services | goods or services or both; | Ireland | Number 19 of 2007 |
| goods service vessel | any mechanically propelled vessel used or adapted to be used for carriage of cargo for hire or reward;'; | India | NO. 35 OF 2007 |
| goods subject to any prohibition or restriction on exportation | goods the exportation of which is prohibited or restricted by any national or European Union legislation for the time being in force; | Ireland | Number 18 of 2015 |
| goods subject to any prohibition or restriction on importation | goods the importation of which is prohibited or restricted by any national or European Union legislation for the time being in force; | Ireland | Number 18 of 2015 |
| goods subject to trade controls | goods that are category A goods, category B goods or category C goods. | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3231 |
| goods threshold | €75,000; | Ireland | Number 31 of 2010 |
| goods trailer | a trailer constructed or adapted primarily for the conveyance of goods or burden of any description; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2011/en/si/02... |
| goods under drawback | goods in relation to which a claim for drawback has been or is to be made under section 151; | Kenya | CAP. 472 |
| goods vehicle examiner | an examiner appointed under Article 74 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(10) who examines goods vehicles within the meaning of Article 2 of that Order; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 182 |
| goods vehicles | a heavy goods vehicle, a light goods vehicle or a vehicle constructed for use in the recovery and assistance of broken-down vehicles; | Singapore | Cap. 276, R 31 |
| goods vehicle | a mechanically propelled vehicle constructed or adapted primarily for the conveyance of goods or burden of any description and includes a vehicle constructed or adapted for use as the drawing component of an articulated vehicle; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2011/en/si/02... |
| goods wholly produced | goods which are produced in a country exclusively from goods wholly obtained or produced in that country or from their derivatives at any stage of production. | European Union | 22012A0229(03) |
| goods | all articles and merchandise of every description and includes fish, livestock and animals; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 2949 |
| goods | any property, tangible or intangible, real, personal, or mixed, and any article, commodity, or other thing of value, including insurance. | United States | BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE - T |
| good | a 60% or more chance, but less than an 80% chance, of obtaining a successful outcome; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 104 |
| gourd | plants commonly known by that name of the species Cucurbita maxima Duchesne; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 387 |
| governance | the term used to describe the role of persons entrusted with the oversight, control and direction of an entity.[1] “Those charged with governance” includes those persons accountable for ensuring that the entity achieves its objectives with regard to reliability of financial reporting, effectiveness and efficiency of operations, compliance with applicable laws, and reporting to interested parties. Those charged with governance include management only when it performs such functions. | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| governing State official | the chief executive official of a State or, in the case of a State that provides for the Statewide election of an official to be responsible solely for the administration of the agricultural operations of the State, such official, who administers an organic certification program under this chapter. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governing board | the Board of Directors or other body of persons, howsoever designated, charged with the administration and management of the affairs of the corporation ; |  Sri Lanka | 33 of 1996 |
| governing body of the municipality or county | the Council of the District of Columbia. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governing body | a member of that governing body; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 1394 (W. 137) |
| governing body | the Governors of the Banffshire Educational Trust established and incorporated by paragraph 5;”. | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 478 (S. 42) |
| governing contribution year | the second last complete contribution year before the beginning of the benefit year which includes the day for which the benefit is claimed; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2007/en/si/01... |
| governing document | a limited savings bank's certificate of formation or company agreement. | United States | FINANCE CODE - Title 3 - Chapt |
| governing instrument | a trust deed, or other document by which the scheme is established, and any other document which contains provisions by which the administration of the scheme is governed; | United Kingdom | 2001 No. 117 |
| government agency | a federal agency or a territorial agency. | Canada | S.C. 2003, c. 7 |
| government agency | a subdivision of the executive, legislative, judicial, or other branch of government, including a department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board, and bureau, and a corporation or other legal entity established, and subject to control, by a government or governments for the execution of a governmental or intergovernmental program; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| government assistance | assistance from a government, municipality or other public authority in any form, including a grant, subsidy, forgivable loan, deduction from tax or investment allowance, but does not include an apprenticeship training tax credit under subsection 8 (16.1) or any other amount that may be prescribed. 2004, c. 31, Sched. 19, s. 10. | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90i02 |
| government assistance | assistance from a government, municipality or other public authority whether as a grant, subsidy, forgivable loan, deduction from tax, investment allowance or as any other form of assistance other than as a deduction under subsection 127(5) or 127(6); | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.) |
| government bonds | bonds creating or acknowledging indebtedness issued by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom.”. | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 8 |
| government department | a department of the government of the Territory for the purposes of any law relating to proceedings against the Crown. | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1738 |
| government entity | an agency, instrumentality, or other entity of Federal, State, or local government (including multijurisdictional agencies, instrumentalities, and entities). | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| government facility | any permanent or temporary facility or conveyance that is used or occupied by representatives of a state, members of a government, the legislature, or the judiciary, or by officials or employees of a state or any other public authority or entity or by employees or officials of an intergovernmental organization in connection with their official duties; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| government hopper car | a hopper car provided to a prescribed railway company by the government of Canada or a province or by the Canadian Wheat Board; | Canada | S.C. 1996, c. 10 |
| government installation | of transportation on land (1 U.S.C. 4). | United States | 71 FR 69360 |
| government institution | an institution designated by the Governor in Council. | Canada | S.C. 2004, c. 11 |
| government institution | any department or ministry of state of the Government of Canada, or any other body or office, that is designated by the regulations; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 47 (4th Supp. |
| government issue | machinery, machine tools, equipment or defence supplies furnished by the Minister or by an agent of Her Majesty on behalf of Her Majesty or on behalf of an associated government or acquired or purchased on behalf of Her Majesty or on behalf of an associated government with funds provided by the Minister or by an agent of Her Majesty or by an associated government; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. D-1 |
| government of a NAFTA country | such department, agency or other body of the government of a NAFTA country as is prescribed; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. S-15 |
| government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | the government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including the public administrations and agencies at the federal level; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/1998/en/si/03... |
| government of the Republic of Serbia | the government of the Republic of Serbia, including the public administrations and agencies at the central government level in the Republic of Serbia; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/1998/en/si/03... |
| government or public facility | a facility or conveyance, whether permanent or temporary, that is used or occupied in connection with their official duties by representatives of a state, members of a government, members of a legislature, members of the judiciary, or officials or employees of a state or of any other public authority or public entity, or by officials or employees of an intergovernmental organization; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46 |
| government policy | the Toxic Substances Management Policy issued by the Government of Canada in June, 1995, as long as it remains in effect, and any other policies of the Government of Canada that are prescribed. | Canada | S.C. 2002, c. 28 |
| government procurement | any type of procurement of goods, services or a combination thereof, including works carried out by public entities of the Parties for governmental purposes and not with a view to commercial resale or with a view to use in the production of goods or the supply of services for commercial sale, unless otherwise specified. It includes procurement by such methods as purchase or lease, or rental or hire purchase, with or without an option to buy; | European Union | 22002A1230(01) |
| government publication | the Canada Gazette or any other official publication of the Government of Canada in which legislative instruments were published. | Canada | S.C. 2002, c. 20 |
| government record | a record that is under the control of a government institution. | Canada | S.C. 2004, c. 11 |
| government services | the services provided by that part of the Public Service in which the employees are employed. | Canada | S.C. 1999, c. 13 |
| government services | the services provided by that part of the Public Service in which the employees are employed; | Canada | S.C. 1989, c. 24 |
| government stock | any stock issued by Her Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom or any funds of or annuity granted by that body; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 322 |
| government unit | a local, regional, national or supranational government entity or any agency thereof; | Singapore | Cap. 142, RG 6 |
| government vehicle | a motor vehicle owned by the United States, this state, or a political subdivision of this state. | United States | TRANSPORTATION CODE - Title 7 |
| government vessel | a vessel that is owned by and is in the service of Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province or that is in the exclusive possession of Her Majesty in that right. | Canada | S.C. 2001, c. 26 |
| government-mixed credits | the combined use of credits, insurance, and guarantees offered by the Export-Import Bank of the United States with concessional financing or grants offered by the Agency for International Development to finance exports; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| government-sponsored housing entities | the Government National Mortgage Association of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal National Mortgage Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| government-sponsored mortgage finance corporations | the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governmental Special Entity | any Special Entity defined in § 23.401(c)(2) or (4). | United States | 77 FR 9733 |
| governmental agency | any agency or entity of the Federal Government or a State or local government. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governmental authority having jurisdiction | the Federal, State, local, or other governmental entity with statutory or regulatory authority for the approval of fire safety systems, equipment, installations, or procedures within a specified locality. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governmental entity | a department or agency of the United States or any State or political subdivision thereof. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governmental unit | United States; State; Commonwealth; District; Territory; municipality; foreign state; department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States (but not a United States trustee while serving as a trustee in a case under this title), a State, a Commonwealth, a District, a Territory, a municipality, or a foreign state; or other foreign or domestic government. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| governmental | of operational control over a laboratory that has a financial or organizational connection to that government. | United States | 78 FR 15835 |
| government | Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15 |
| government | the State, regional or local government of a member State or a State which is not a member State. | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 1848 |
| governor ex officio | a governor of the University Court under article 10(4); | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 198 |
| governor member | a member of the foundation body appointed by the governing body of a school under regulation 7(1) or (3) or regulation 21(5); | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1502 |
| governor | a member of any of the collaborating governing bodies; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 168 (W. 21) |
| governor | a member of the management committee, governing body or board of governors (however described) of the school. | United Kingdom | 2001 No. 2855 |
| grace period | a period within which any credit extended may be repaid without incurring a finance charge due to a periodic interest rate. A deferred interest or similar promotional program under which the consumer is not obligated to pay interest that accrues on a balance if that balance is paid in full prior to the expiration of a specified period of time is not a grace period for purposes of § 1026.5(b)(2)(ii)(B). Similarly, a period following the payment due date during which a late payment fee will not be imposed is not a grace period for purposes of § 1026.5(b)(2)(ii)(B). See comments 7(b)(11)-1, 7(b)(11)-2, and 54(a)(1)-2. | United States | 76 FR 79767 |
| grade B contour | the field strength of a television broadcast station computed in accordance with regulations promulgated by the Commission; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grade crossing | a road crossing at grade, or two or more road crossings at grade where the lines of railway are not separated by more than 30 m. | Canada | SOR/2014-275 |
| grade name | a prescribed name, mark or designation of a category and includes a standard prescribed for an agricultural product; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 20 (4th Supp. |
| grade name | a prescribed name, mark or designation of a food commodity. | Canada | S.C. 2012, c. 24 |
| graded race | a race for which the competing dogs are selected by the racing manager in accordance with the rules of the grading system approved by the Board; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2007/en/si/03... |
| grader | a grader designated pursuant to section 19; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 20 (4th Supp. |
| grade | a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grading | the process of sorting eels by length or weight. | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 166 |
| graduate students association | a graduate students association of a university established under section 94 or continued under Part 5; | Canada | P-19.5 2003 |
| graduate student | a person enrolled in a program of graduate studies at a university; | Canada | P-19.5 2003 |
| graduate endowment liability | the course in respect of which the graduate endowment liability arose; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 235 |
| graduate medical education residency matching program | a program (such as those conducted by the National Resident Matching Program) that, in connection with the admission of students to graduate medical education programs, uses an algorithm and matching rules to match students in accordance with the preferences of students and the preferences of graduate medical education programs. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| graduate or postgraduate studies | courses of higher education study that follow a first degree lasting a minimum of three years and lead to a second or further degree. | European Union | 32003D2317 |
| graduate teacher | a person to whom an authorisation has been granted in accordance with Part II of Schedule 2; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 2817 (W. 18) |
| graduate trainees | natural persons of the EC Party or of the Signatory CARIFORUM States who have been employed by a juridical person of that EC Party or Signatory CARIFORUM State for at least one year, possess a university degree and are temporarily transferred to a commercial presence or to the parent company of the juridical person in the territory of the other Party, for career development purposes or to obtain training in business techniques or methods [18]; | European Union | 22008A1030(01) |
| graduated fixed penalty offence | an offence listed in Schedule 2. | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 492 |
| graduated measure | a measure with more than four scale marks or, in the case of a measure which is both a metric and imperial measure, in each of metric and imperial units; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 48 |
| graduated | having its operating range subdivided into one or more continuous series of scale intervals; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 5 |
| graduated | that the Program Participant is recognized as successfully completing the program by substantially achieving the targets, objectives, and goals contained in the concern's business plan thereby demonstrating its ability to compete in the marketplace without assistance under this section or section 637(a) of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| graduate | a person upon whom a degree has been conferred by the University; | Kenya | CAP. 210A |
| graduate | an individual who has voluntarily applied for, been selected for, and enrolled in the Job Corps program and who, as a result of participation in the Job Corps program, has received a secondary school diploma or recognized equivalent, or completed the requirements of a career and technical education and training program that prepares individuals for employment leading to economic self-sufficiency or entrance into postsecondary education or training. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grain dealer | a person who, for reward, on his own behalf or on behalf of another person, deals in or handles western grain; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. G-10 |
| grain elevator | an elevator used to receive, store, clean, treat or transfer feed for livestock or grain. | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/r14257 |
| grain receipt | a document in prescribed form issued in respect of grain delivered to a process elevator or grain dealer acknowledging receipt of the grain and entitling the holder of the document to payment by the operator of the elevator or the grain dealer for the grain; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. G-10 |
| grain whisky | whisky made from malt and cereals; | European Union | 31983R1981 |
| grain-fed calf | any calf fed mainly grain, raised in confinement in buildings designed for such cattle production and having a live weight before slaughter of 135 to 297 kg. | Canada | SOR/2010-158 |
| grain | corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley, flaxseed, sorghum, soybeans, mixed grain, and any other food grains, feed grains, and oilseeds for which standards are established under section 76 of this title; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grand jury information | matters occurring before a grand jury other than the deliberations of the grand jury or the vote of any grand juror. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grandchild | a child as above defined of a child as above defined; | Canada | S.C. 1920, c. 54 |
| grandfathered health plan | any group health plan or health insurance coverage to which this section applies. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grandfathered unitary savings and loan holding company | a company described in section 1467a(c)(9)(C) of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grandfathered | for them to be certificated. To correct this oversight and permit those aircraft to be certificated, we have added new paragraph (h) to § 21.183. That paragraph permits these aircraft to receive a standard airworthiness certificate subject to conditions that mirror those of § 21.183(d). | United States | 71 FR 52250 |
| grandfather | that in many cases the time herds spent in a State program, prior to adoption of this rule, will count toward their program status. Herd owners who choose not to participate in a certification program could also face a loss in animal value, since participating herds will be less likely to acquire animals from nonparticipating herds, due to penalties. | United States | 71 FR 41682 |
| grandparent | a parent of a parent; | Kenya | No. 45 of 2013 |
| grant and per diem provider | an entity in receipt of a grant under section 2011 or 2012 of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grant applicant | a person who has applied for a grant but who has not had that application for grant approved by a local authority; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 117 |
| grant beneficiary | the Indian tribe or tribes on behalf of which a grant is made under this chapter to a recipient. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grant for disabled distance learning students’ living costs | the grant payable under regulation 76; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 54 (W. 5) |
| grant for disabled distance learning students' living costs | the grant payable under regulation 69; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3170 (W. 283) |
| grant for disabled part-time students’ living costs | the grant payable under regulation 100; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 3177 (W. 316) |
| grant for disabled part-time students' living costs | the grant payable under regulation 83; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3170 (W. 283) |
| grant for disabled students’ living costs | the grant payable under regulation 25; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 54 (W. 5) |
| grant for disabled students' living costs | the grant payable under regulation 24; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3170 (W. 283) |
| grant for living and other costs | a grant payable under Part 5; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1555 |
| grant for travel | the grant payable under regulations 33 to 35; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 54 (W. 5) |
| grant from public funds | a grant made by a public authority or by any person distributing funds on behalf of a public authority. | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 678 |
| grant from public funds | a grant made by a public authority or by any person distributing funds on behalf of a public authority; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 928 |
| grant funding deduction | the figure calculated in accordance with regulation 32; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 928 |
| grant funding shortfall | the amount by which the grant funding deduction exceeds the periodic support payment in any quarterly period; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 1413 |
| grant funds | the amount appropriated under section 5106h of this title for a fiscal year and not reserved under section 5106h(a)(2) of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grant of leave | a grant by the High Court of leave to any person in relation to a disqualification order or a disqualification undertaking for the purposes of Article 3(1)(a) or 4(1)(a) of the Order; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 347 |
| grant of protection | a grant of protection made by the Registrar under section 21; | Singapore | Cap. 232A |
| grant of recognised spectrum access | the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the territorial sea adjacent thereto”; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 3325 |
| grant of registration | the renewal of such registration by a court of summary jurisdiction or, as the case may be, by a clerk of petty sessions; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 76 |
| grant period | a period referred to in paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) (as the case may be); | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2086 |
| grant program | a competitive grant program administered by the state board under this title and funded primarily by state funds. The term includes a program for water quality management, water supply enhancement, or flood control. | United States | AGRICULTURE CODE - Title 7 - C |
| grant recipient | a person who has received a grant or has had a grant application approved by a local authority; | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 117 |
| grant recipient | a watershed group that the Secretary has selected to receive a grant under section 1015a(c)(2) of this title. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grant-aided expenditure | expenditure in respect of which a grant is payable under this Scheme; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 472 |
| grant-aided | a school as defined in Article 2 of the Education and Libraries (N.I.) Order 1986(2); | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 481 |
| grant-in-aid | a subvention extended by the Government to registered schools, which are conducted wholly for the benefit of the pupils and the managers of which agree in return to maintain certain standards and observe certain conditions; | Singapore | Cap. 87, RG 3 |
| grantee | a State or unit of general local government receiving grants from the Secretary under this chapter. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grantee | a corporation to which the privilege of establishing, operating, and maintaining a foreign-trade zone has been granted; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| granting State | the member State in which a relevant qualification was granted; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1348 |
| grantor’s development of the land | any acquisition by the grantor of an interest in the land, building or civil engineering work and includes the construction of the building or civil engineering work; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1069 |
| grantor | a person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b); | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 46 |
| grants for dependants | the grants and allowance listed in regulation 26(1); | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 54 (W. 5) |
| grants for living and other costs | the grants payable under regulation 15; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 960 |
| grants to States | grants made under this subchapter by the Secretary to the States. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grant | a decommissioning grant under this Scheme; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 2669 |
| grant | a grant awarded under a grant agreement (within the meaning of section 6304 of title 31). | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| granuloma | a specific form of chronic inflammation involving mononuclear inflammatory cells and their derivatives, including foreign body, tuberculous and sarcoid granulomata; | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| grape product | grapes and any product (other than wine) made from grapes, including, but not limited to, raisins and grape juice, whether or not concentrated. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grapes | vinifera species table grapes, European type, whether or not they have been in storage. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| graphic medium | a model, map, diagram, photograph or other pictorial or graphic mode of description and includes a record of data, experience, communications or events made by accurate mechanical, electrical or other scientific methods. | Canada | C.R.C., c. 1049 |
| grass margin | a grass strip between 1.5 metres and 6 metres created in the margin of or through an arable field in order to allow beneficial insects to over winter; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 159 |
| grass roots expenditures | expenditures for the purpose of influencing legislation (as defined in subsection (d) without regard to paragraph (1)(B) thereof). | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grasses or other herbaceous forage | all herbaceous plants traditionally found in natural pastures or normally included in mixtures of seeds for pastures or meadows in the Member State, whether or not used for grazing animals; | European Union | 32013R1307 |
| grassland farm | a farm where 80% or more of the agricultural area available for manure application is permanent grassland or temporary grassland (temporary implying leys of less than four years), including crops under-sown with grass but excluding grassland with 50% or more clover; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 447 |
| grassland holding | a holding where 80% or more of the agricultural area available for manure application is cultivated with grass; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 411 |
| grassland management plan | a plan for the carrying out of certain specific operations, including stock management and fertiliser restrictions, required by the agreement; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 1308 |
| grassland | any land on which the vegetation consists predominantly of grass species; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 411 |
| grass | perennial grasses commonly used for haying or grazing. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gratuity service | the aggregate of a member's reckonable service and any notional period added to his or her qualifying service pursuant to article 3; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2002/en/si/02... |
| gratuity | a gratuity determined in accordance with article 5; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2002/en/si/02... |
| gratuity | a payment in respect of an entry, where the amount of that payment was determined by reference to the 2004 Amending Order. | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 1350 |
| grave plot | the area occupied by a grave and includes any tombstone or monument erected on or over it; | Singapore | Cap. 95, RG 9 |
| gravel | dredged materials with a diameter of at least 2 and less than 64 millimetres; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 2935 |
| gravity base foundation | a foundation type which rests on the seabed and supports the wind turbine generator, meteorological station or offshore platform primarily due to its own weight and that of added ballast, with or without skirts or other additional fixings, which may include associated equipment including J-tubes and access platforms and separate topside connection structures or an integrated transition piece. (Sub-types for wind turbine generators and meteorological stations include conical gravity base and flat-based gravity base. Sub-types for platforms include offshore platform conical or flat-base gravity base foundations and offshore platform semi-submersible gravity base foundations); | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 318 |
| gravity | the ratio of the weight of a volume of the liquid to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water, and the volume of each liquid is computed as at 20°C. Where the gravity of any liquid is expressed as a number of degrees that number is that ratio multiplied by 1,000. | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 1914 |
| gravity | the ratio of the weight of a volume of the liquid to the weight of an equal volume of distilled water, the volume of each liquid being computed as at 15.55 degrees centigrade; and where the gravity of a liquid is expressed as a number of degrees that number shall be such ratio multiplied by one thousand; | Kenya | CAP. 472 |
| graywater | galley, bath, and shower water; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| graywater | galley, bath, or shower water.” Other discharges, such as those from laundry facilities, are not included in this definition, which is based on section 312 of the CWA. In May 2006, NOAA's proposed rule (71 FR 29096; May 19, 2006) referred to the definition of graywater codified by the CWA; however, due to comments received, NOAA added a free-standing definition for graywater, rather than referring to the CWA. | United States | 74 FR 3216 |
| grazed pasture | grassland used for the grazing of cattle, horses or sheep; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1176 |
| grazed woodland | woodland used for grazing by livestock; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 2611 |
| grazing land | land used for the keeping of cattle, horses or sheep; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 1176 |
| grazing livestock | any animal specified in Table 1 in Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 489 (W. 55) |
| grazing livestock | cattle (with the exclusion of veal calves), sheep, deer, goats and horses;”. | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 447 |
| grazing permit and lease | any document authorizing use of public lands or lands in National Forests in the eleven contiguous western States for the purpose of grazing domestic livestock. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grazing year | any period of twelve months beginning with the date of receipt or any anniversary of the date of receipt; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 237 |
| grease trap | any interceptor, arrestor, tank or pit situated above or under the ground which allows culinary wastewater to cool and the grease therein to be separated from the wastewater; | Singapore | Cap. 294, RG 5 |
| greasy wool | wool that has not been washed or otherwise cleaned. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| great ape | a chimpanzee, gorilla, bonobo, orangutan, or gibbon. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| great expense associated with maintaining toll-free numbers. | of receiving do-not-fax requests, then opt-out requests should only be enforceable if they are received in that manner. Finally, Advocacy indicates that small businesses believe an exemption for tax-exempt nonprofit associations from the opt-out notice requirement would be appropriate. | United States | 71 FR 25967 |
| greater silver smelt | Argentina silus; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2006/en/si/00... |
| greater than 1 ppm or 1 mg/L | that the chemical tested was highly to very highly toxic on an acute basis and would have a serious adverse affect(s) on the organism tested at low concentrations. For clarity, in test note 3 to the nontarget organism table, EPA has specified the appropriate trigger (less than or equal to) to indicate that testing is needed for chemicals that demonstrate high to very high toxicity on an acute basis. | United States | 78 FR 26935 |
| greatest economic need | the need resulting from an income level at or below the poverty line. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| greatly | of assessing variation in cost and that “much of the variation [remaining] after removing the effects of input price adjusters is attributable to the quantity of services beneficiaries use.” The study showed that even with aggregation at the county level, only 87.3 percent of beneficiaries nationally are between 85 percent and 115 percent of average cost per beneficiary, even after adjusting for health status, participation in Medicare Parts A and B, and payment to hospitals that reflect hospital costs for providing uncompensated care to the poor and teaching hospital costs for graduate medical education. After all such adjustments, the standard deviation at the beneficiary level was greater than 10 percent of the average cost per beneficiary (MedPAC. Report to Congress: Variation and Innovation in Medicare, Jun 2003). While these studies do not explicitly test the reliability of a beneficiary-level episode-based cost measure, they clearly establish significant variation in spending per beneficiary and show that provider choices drive that part of that variation. | United States | 77 FR 53257 |
| greaves | the protein-containing residue of rendering, after partial separation of fat and water; | European Union | 32002R1774 |
| green bananas | bananas falling within CN code ex 0803, excluding plantains, fig bananas and bananas intended for processing; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/00... |
| green card | an international certificate of insurance issued on behalf of a national bureau in accordance with Recommendation No 5 adopted on 25 January 1949 by the Road Transport Sub-committee of the Inland Transport Committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. | European Union | 31972L0166 |
| green compost | any nitrogen fertiliser derived exclusively from plant sources in the form of composted landscaping or garden waste; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 668 |
| green cover season | the period commencing on 15th January and ending on 30th April in the same year; | United Kingdom | 1995 No. 1738 |
| green cover | a green cover established or, as the case may be, falling to be established in accordance with Schedule 1; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 45 (W. 4) |
| green cover | a ground covering of vegetation established or, as the case may be, falling to be established in accordance with any of the management options referred to in Paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1”. | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 200 |
| green crops | alfalfa (Lucerne), clover, grass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and other similar crops;”. | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 2172 |
| green crops | alfalfa (Lucerne), clover, grass, perennial ryegrass, tall fescue and other similar crops; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 160 |
| green deal credit agreement | a green deal plan that is to be treated as a credit agreement for the purposes of this Order by virtue of paragraph (1); | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 1850 |
| green deal information | the information about a green deal plan that is included in the disclosure document;”. | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 139 |
| green deal information | the information relating to a green deal plan specified in Schedule 2;”; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 12 |
| green deal instalments | payments in instalments which are payable under a green deal plan; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 2079 |
| green deal plans cancelled | green deal plans cancelled by the green deal provider due to non-payment of green deal instalments; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 139 |
| green deal property | a property in respect of which there is a green deal plan and payments are still to be made under that green deal plan; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 12 |
| green deal property | a property in respect of which there is a green deal plan and payments are still to be made under that plan. | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 214 |
| green deal provider | the green provider under that green deal plan; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 12 |
| green deal report | a report produced pursuant to a qualifying assessment; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 962 |
| green hide | a hide or skin which is not partly nor wholly dried, salted or tanned; | Kenya | CAP. 359 |
| green offal | the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents. | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 675 |
| green offal | the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 46 |
| green roof | a roof surface that supports the growth of vegetation over a substantial portion of its area for the purpose of water conservation or energy conservation. 2006, c. 11, Sched. A, s. 108 (3). | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06c11 |
| green spaces | areas within the boundaries of the Project or affected by the Project that are covered by grass, trees, or other vegetation. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| green tea leaf | leaf detached from tea plants but not dried or processed in any way; | Kenya | CAP. 343 |
| green/food compost | any nitrogen fertiliser derived from plant or animal sources in the form of composted catering waste in any combination with green compost, and which excludes organic manure from livestock; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 668 |
| green/food compost | any nitrogen fertiliser which is derived from plant or animal sources in the form of composted catering waste in any combination with green compost, and which excludes organic manure from livestock;”. | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 1001 |
| greenfield facility | a facility which started to carry out the process by virtue of which it is a facility within the meaning of paragraph 50 of Schedule 6 during the 12 month period ending on the date the operator applies for the facility to be covered by an agreement;”. | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 508 |
| greenhouse gas criteria | the criteria set out in Schedule 2A; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 145 |
| greenhouse gas emission allowances | allowances to emit greenhouse gases transferable in accordance with the Directive and other units that may be used by operators for compliance with the Directive; | Ireland | Number 31 of 2010 |
| greenhouse gas emission criteria | the criteria set out in Schedule A1;”; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 169 |
| greenhouse gas emissions from the use of fossil fuel | the value given in paragraph 19 of Part C of Annex 5 to the Renewables Directive as the fossil fuel comparator for bioliquids used for electricity production; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 169 |
| greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy | the total mass of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gas emissions associated with the fuel or energy supplied, divided by the total energy content of the fuel or energy supplied (for fuel, expressed as its low heating value); | European Union | 32009L0030 |
| greenhouse gas emissions permit | a permit as referred to in Article 4 of the Directive and issued in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the Directive; | European Union | 32004D0156 |
| greenhouse gas emissions | the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from sources in an installation; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 925 |
| greenhouse gas intensity | the ratio of greenhouse gas emissions to economic output. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| greenhouse gases | carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| greenhouse gas | any gas listed in Annex A to the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change done at Kyoto on December 11, 1997, as amended from time to time, to the extent that the amendments are binding on Canada. | Canada | S.C. 2005, c. 30, s. 96 |
| greenhouse | a structure such as a glasshouse or polytunnel in which crops are grown under cover in an enclosed space, but does not include a structure in which livestock are kept; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 668 |
| greenshoe option | an option granted by the offeror in favour of the investment firm(s) or credit institution(s) involved in the offer for the purpose of covering overallotments, under the terms of which such firm(s) or institution(s) may purchase up to a certain amount of relevant securities at the offer price for a certain period of time after the offer of the relevant securities. | European Union | 32003R2273 |
| green | that mature ripe Hass avocados would not be packed for export to the United States, as they would spoil by the time they arrived on the export market. | United States | 76 FR 43804 |
| grey water | domestic waste water excluding that which is flushed from a toilet bowl or urinal; | Ireland | Number 30 of 2007 |
| greyhound bitch | a sexually mature female greyhound; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2005/en/si/05... |
| greyhound | a dog (including a bitch) entered in the Irish Greyhound Stud Book or the pup of a greyhound dog and greyhound bitch so entered; | Ireland | Number 29 of 2011 |
| grid code | a code in respect of all technical aspects relating to connection to and operation of the transmission system prepared by the Board under section 33 ; | Ireland | Number 23 of 1999 |
| grid connection agreement | an agreement between a relevant person and a network operator for the making of a grid connection; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 116 |
| grid connection land | the C.GEN relevant land, the thermal buffer zone and the crossing zones; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3331 |
| grid connection | a connection between a generating installation and a transmission system or distribution system for the purpose of enabling electricity to be conveyed from the installation to that system; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 2782 |
| gridded existing land use | an objective depiction as a regular orthorectified grid (image) of the use and functions of a territory as it has been and effectively still is in real life. | European Union | 32013R1253 |
| grid | the network of transmission systems, distribution systems and connection points for the movement and supply of electrical energy from generating stations to consumers; | Kenya | CAP. 314 |
| grievance procedures | the procedures described in regulation 32 below; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 2108 |
| grievance provision | a provision that sets out a grievance procedure including the procedure for arbitrating a grievance and any restrictions on the right to grieve. 1997, c. 21, Sched. B, s. 26. | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/97p21b |
| grievance | a claim by an employee that the employee was adversely affected by a violation, misinterpretation, misapplication, or disparity in the application of a specific law, ordinance, resolution, written or unwritten policy, or rule regarding wages, hours of work, or conditions of work. | United States | LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE - Title |
| grievor | a member who presents a grievance. | Canada | SOR/2014-289 |
| gritting trailer | a trailer which is used on a road for the purpose of spreading grit or other matter so as to avoid or reduce the effect of ice or snow on the road; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 454 |
| grocery product | a nonfood grocery product, including a disposable paper or plastic product, household cleaning product, laundry detergent, cleaning product, or miscellaneous household item. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grocery wholesaler | a person that is a dealer primarily engaged in the full-line wholesale distribution and resale of grocery and related nonfood items (such as perishable agricultural commodities, dry groceries, general merchandise, meat, poultry, and seafood, and health and beauty care items) to retailers. However, such term does not include a person described in the preceding sentence if the person is primarily engaged in the wholesale distribution and resale of perishable agricultural commodities rather than other grocery and related nonfood items. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gross REIT revenue | the amount, if any, by which the total of all amounts received or receivable in the year (depending on the method regularly followed by the entity in computing the entity’s income) by the entity exceeds the total of all amounts each of which is the cost to the entity of a property disposed of in the year. | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (5th Supp.) |
| gross aid intensity | the aid amount expressed as a percentage of the project's eligible costs. All figures used shall be taken before any deduction for direct taxation. Where aid is awarded in a form other than a grant, the aid amount shall be the grant equivalent of the aid. Aid payable in several instalments shall be discounted to its value at the moment of granting. The interest rate to be used for discounting purposes and for calculating the aid amount in a soft loan shall be the reference rate applicable at the time of grant; | European Union | 32004R0001 |
| gross annual income | the gross annual income of the charity as shown in the charity’s most recent statement of account; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 220 |
| gross asset value | the value of the investments comprising the scheme property of the authorised investment fund before the deduction of specified liabilities, but does not include cash awaiting investment; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 294 |
| gross capital value | the value of the estate or trust property (excluding any annuity or other terminable payment purchased by any person in the name of, transferred to or covenanted to be paid to the Public Trustee for the benefit of some other person) without deduction for debts, incumbrances, funeral expenses or inheritance tax; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 855 |
| gross capital value | the value of the estate or trust property (excluding any annuity or other terminable payment purchased by any person in the name of, transferred to or covenanted to be paid to the public trustee for the benefit of some other person) without deduction for debts, incumbrances, funeral expenses or inheritance tax. | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 611 |
| gross cargo weight | the weight of the cargo, packaging materials (including ice), pallets, and dunnage. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gross compensation | all amounts to which the particular person, or any person not dealing at arm’s length with the particular person, is entitled, either before or after that time and either absolutely or contingently, to receive or obtain in respect of that statement. | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. E-15 |
| gross debt service ratio | the percentage of a borrower’s gross annual income that is required to cover the annual payments associated with the eligible residential property against which a housing loan is secured. | Canada | SOR/2012-282 |
| gross domestic product at market prices | gross domestic product of the State for the year at market prices, as arrived at in accordance with the European system of accounts; | Ireland | Number 39 of 2012 |
| gross floor space | the area ascertained by the internal measurement of the floor space on each floor of a building (including internal walls and partitions), disregarding any floor space provided for the parking of vehicles by persons occupying or using the building or buildings where such floor space is incidental to the primary purpose of the building; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/si/06... |
| gross income | an organisation’s gross income from all sources. | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 1960 |
| gross income | income from all sources before deduction for or relief from tax or other statutory charge, but not including any disability related benefits, and less any disability related costs; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 58 |
| gross investment income | real estate expenses, depreciation (except to the extent that property is used in or connected with its underwriting business), interest paid or accrued within the taxable year on indebtedness (except on indebtedness incurred to purchase in carry obligations the interest upon which is wholly exempt from taxation under existing laws), and such investment expenses paid or accrued during the taxable year as are ordinary and necessary in the conduct of its investment or in the conduct of its business other than the life insurance business. |  Philippines | www.gov.ph/1972/11/24/presidential-de... |
| gross liability | liability before deducting any part of it which is re-insured; | Kenya | CAP. 487 |
| gross mass | the gross mass of those goods, measured in kilogrammes (kg); | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 248 |
| gross misconduct | a breach of the Standards of Professional Behaviour so serious that demotion in rank or dismissal may be justified; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 68 |
| gross misconduct | a... | United Kingdom | 2008 c. 4 |
| gross monthly income | total monthly income, for the month in which the application for remission or part remission is made, from all sources other than receipt of any of the excluded benefits; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 1497 (L. 14) |
| gross offer or bid | the total amount or value offered by the provider for the purchase of one or more life insurance policies, inclusive of commissions and fees. | United States | INSURANCE CODE - Title 7 - Cha |
| gross output | the total amount of electricity generated by that station; | United Kingdom | 2009 No. 785 |
| gross payments | payments which are made at such a rate as the authority estimate to be equivalent to the reasonable cost of securing the provision of the service concerned; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 964 (W. 138) |
| gross penny rate product | the income that may be raised from one penny of district rates on rateable and derated properties, as determined by the Department on the basis of data provided by the Department of Finance and Personnel; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 58 |
| gross premium income | its premium income from its insurance business in Canada calculated without reduction in respect of reinsurance premiums paid or payable; | Canada | S.C. 1991, c. 47 |
| gross premiums earned | such proportion of gross premiums written as is attributable to risks borne by the company during that financial year; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 946 |
| gross premiums written | the amount of premiums written without deduction for reinsurance; | Singapore | Cap. 142, RG 15 |
| gross premium | the renewal net premium plus any expense loading designated by the association or as otherwise regulated by this chapter. | United States | INSURANCE CODE - Title 6 - Cha |
| gross proceeds | the realised value of the property without any deduction for any costs or expenses incurred in connection with its realisation and irrespective of any mortgage, charge, lien or other security to which it is subject; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2013/en/si/04... |
| gross receipts | all revenues reportable by a taxable entity on its federal tax return, without deduction for the cost of property sold, materials used, labor performed, or other costs incurred, unless otherwise specifically provided in this chapter. | United States | TAX CODE - Title 2 - Chapter |
| gross revenue insurance program | a program that combines the protection offered by a crop insurance program and the protection offered by a revenue insurance program; | Canada | S.C. 1991, c. 22 |
| gross revenue | the aggregate of all payments (excluding value-added tax, and charges for installing or providing apparatus for receiving the services retransmitted by the licensee under the licence) paid or payable to the licensee, or to any other person for the benefit of the licensee, for the retransmission in that quarter by the licensee of licensed programme services; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/1999/en/si/03... |
| gross roll-up business | business of any... | United Kingdom | 2007 c. 11 |
| gross salary | the basic salary, monthly variable component, non-pensionable component and non-pensionable variable payments only of the member’s total monthly salary; | Singapore | Cap. 126B, RG 2 |
| gross square feet of space | the entire interior space of that establishment, and any adjoining outdoor space used to serve patrons, whether on a seasonal basis or otherwise. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| gross tonnage | gross tonnage calculated in accordance with the tonnage measurement regulations contained in Annex 1 to the International Convention on Tonnage Measurement of Ships 1969; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2011/en/si/06... |
| gross tonnage | the volume of a vessel as determined by a tonnage measurer or calculated in accordance with the regulations made under paragraph 77(h). | Canada | S.C. 2001, c. 26 |
| gross value | the value of the property without any deduction for any costs or expenses that have been, or may be, incurred in connection with its realisation and irrespective of any mortgage, charge, lien or other security to which it is subject; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2013/en/si/04... |
| gross value | the wholesale price or, if there is no such price, the estimated value, with, in either case, freight, landing charges and duty paid beforehand, or, in the case of goods or merchandise customarily sold in bond, the bonded price. | Kenya | CAP. 390 |
| gross weekly income | income calculated under Chapter 1 of Part 4; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 2677 |
| gross weight | the aggregate weight of the goods and any container in or on which they are made up; | Singapore | Cap. 349 |
| gross weight | the weight transmitted by a wheel of a vehicle to the existing bridge. | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 1316 |
| grossed up | that the amount of the subsidy, plus 25 percent of that subsidy may be added to the consumer's income from employment and/or other sources. | United States | 78 FR 6407 |
| gross | that, after correction of the error, the amount of tax due and payable exceeds the amount initially reported by at least 25 percent. | United States | TAX CODE - Title 2 - Chapter |
| ground (a) appeal | an appeal under Article 69 (appeal against enforcement notice), so far as brought on the ground mentioned in paragraph (3)(a) of that Article. | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 73 |
| ground based mast | a mast constructed on the ground either directly or on a plinth or other structure constructed for the purpose of supporting the mast; | United Kingdom | 2001 No. 266 |
| ground control measure | a measure designed to control the movement of the ground including the provision and installation of support materials; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 2463 |
| ground floor | the lowest horizontal stratum of a building other than the basement. | Singapore | Cap. 95, RG 3 |
| ground handling | those services necessary for an aircraft's arrival at and departure from an airport, other than air traffic services; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2002/en/si/04... |
| ground investigation programme | a programme for the carrying out of ground investigations and groundwater risk assessments within the Order limits and in particular upon or within the vicinity of the former landfill site at Cadwell Lane and land within the ownership of Anglian Water Services Limited; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 1072 |
| ground level | the ground floor level of that building; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 66 |
| ground level | the level of the ground immediately adjacent to the structure, plant or machinery or, where the level of the ground where it is situated or is to be situated is not uniform, the level of the lowest part of the ground adjacent to it. | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/si/06... |
| ground mitigation scheme | a scheme approved by the protected person (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) setting out the necessary measures (if any) for a ground subsidence event; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 1386 |
| ground of exemption | any of the grounds 1 to 5 described in regulation 14B. | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 981 |
| ground or comminuted to the required standard | ground or comminuted sufficiently finely so as to be capable of passing through a screen with openings no greater than 25 millimetres; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 3257 |
| ground source heat pump | a plant which generates heat by absorbing energy stored in the form of heat from the ground, including water in the ground, or surface water or both and uses that energy to heat a liquid; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 928 |
| ground storey | the lowest of these; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/04... |
| ground transportation business | the transportation by motor vehicle of persons or baggage for compensation. | United States | TRANSPORTATION CODE - Title 3 |
| ground visibility | the horizontal visibility at ground level; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 1393 |
| ground water | any waters contained in underground strata; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 189 |
| ground water | water in a saturated zone or stratum beneath the surface of land or water. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| groundhandling | the services provided to airport users at airports as described in the Annex to the Directive; | United Kingdom | 1997 No. 2389 |
| grounding | the formal prohibition of an aircraft to leave an airport, and the taking of such steps as are necessary to detain it; | European Union | 32004L0036 |
| grounds of a building | the land on which the building is located and the land that is treated as the grounds of the building pursuant to the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1). | Japan | Act No. 69 of 1962 |
| grounds | that, according to the provisions of the EC Treaty, the responsibility of proving that the national measures are justified lies with the requesting Member State which seeks to maintain them. Given the procedural framework established by Article 95 of the EC Treaty, including in particular a strict deadline for a decision to be adopted, the Commission normally has to limit itself to examining the relevance of the elements which are submitted by the requesting Member State, without having to seek itself possible reasons of justifications. | European Union | 32004D0001 |
| grounds | the reasons or circumstances that cause the Welsh Ministers to believe that the continued provision of child minding or day care for children by a registered person exposes or may expose one or more of the children to whom such care is or may be provided to the risk of harm; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 2574 (W. 214) |
| groundwater quality standard | an environmental quality standard expressed as the concentration of a particular pollutant, group of pollutants or indicator of pollution in groundwater, which should not be exceeded in order to protect human health and the environment; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 323 |
| groundwater | all water below the land surface that is not in a pipe or similarly contained; | Ireland | Number 30 of 2007 |
| group 1 biological agent | a biological agent that is unlikely to cause human disease; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 323 |
| group 2 biological agent | a biological agent that can cause human disease and might be a hazard to workers but is unlikely to spread to the community and for which there is usually an effective prophylaxis or treatment available, and includes agents classified as such in Annex III to the Directive or in the Approved List of biological agents; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 323 |
| group 3 biological agent | a biological agent that can cause severe human disease, presents a serious hazard to workers and may present a risk of spreading to the community but for which there is usually an effective prophylaxis or treatment available, and includes agents classified as such in Annex III to the Directive or in the Approved List of biological agents; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 323 |
| group 4 biological agent | a biological agent that causes severe human disease, is a serious hazard to workers and may present a high risk of spreading to the community and for which there is usually no effective prophylaxis or treatment available, and includes agents classified as such in Annex III to the Directive or in the Approved List of biological agents; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 323 |
| group A beta-haemolytic streptococcal infection | positive throat culture of group A beta-haemolytic Streptococci, or serological documentation of elevated or rising titres of anti-streptolysin O (ASO), anti-deoxyribonuclease B (anti-DNase B) or other streptococcal antibody, or rapid antigen test for group A Streptococci, usually occuring with clinical evidence of pharyngitis or pyoderma, and excludes colonisation of the affected site; | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F20... |
| group BART | to satisfy BART for affected EGUs. | United States | 70 FR 39104 |
| group Singapore visa | a Singapore visa granted to and in respect of 3 or more non-citizens for those non-citizens to travel to and enter Singapore as a group within a specified period; | Singapore | Cap. 133, RG 1 |
| group accounts | such accounts as are required to be prepared by Article 235 of the 1986 Order, or, as the case may be, delivered under Article 236 of that Order, together with any accounts required to be delivered in accordance with Article 251(2) of that Order; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 447 |
| group auditor | a person appointed as statutory auditor to conduct an audit of group accounts; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 3494 |
| group clearer | a member that, on its own behalf or on behalf of the entities belonging to the group in respect of which it is appointed in accordance with section 28, exchanges payment items and either effects clearing and settlement or makes entries into the ACSS. | Canada | SOR/2003-346 |
| group company | a licence-holder which is a member of a group of companies that includes at least one other licence-holder; and “group” refers to the group of companies of which the licence-holder is a member; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3219 |
| group entity | a relevant parent undertaking or group subsidiary which has entered into a group financial support agreement authorised by the PRA, FCA or other competent authority (“the agreement”); | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3348 |
| group financial support agreement | an agreement for the provision of financial support from one member of a group to another which satisfies the conditions set out in Article 19 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15th May 2014 establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms(172). | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3329 |
| group grievance | a grievance presented in accordance with section 215. | Canada | S.C. 2003, c. 22, s. 2 |
| group health benefit plan | a plan described by Section 1207.001, Insurance Code. | United States | HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE - Title |
| group health plan | a group health plan as that term is defined in section 5000(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 without regard to section 5000(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. | United States | 75 FR 18051 |
| group home with aid | to provide persons with disabilities who have no trouble leading communal lives in their communities with consultation and other aid in their daily lives at residences where they are to live communally, primarily during the night. | Japan | Act No. 123 of 2005 |
| group home with care | to provide the persons with disabilities with care for bath, elimination, or meal, and the other benefit prescribed in Ordinance of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare mainly in the night at residences where they are to live communally. | Japan | Act No. 123 of 2005 |
| group home | a residence licensed or funded under a federal or provincial statute for the accommodation of three to 10 persons, exclusive of staff, living under supervision in a single housekeeping unit and who, by reason of their emotional, mental, social or physical condition or legal status, require a group living arrangement for their well being. 2006, c. 32, Sched. A, s. 82. | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/01m25 |
| group institution | a UK institution or a non-UK institution; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3348 |
| group life insurance and group business | insurance on the lives of groups of persons formed for purposes other than that of purchasing a group life insurance policy; | Kenya | CAP. 487 |
| group litigant | a claimant or defendant, as the case may be, whose claim is entered on the group register. | United Kingdom | 2000 No. 1317 (L. 11) |
| group market | the health insurance market under which individuals obtain health insurance coverage (directly or through any arrangement) on behalf of themselves (and their dependents) through a group health plan maintained by an employer. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| group of companies | a collection of companies such that every pair of companies within that collection comprises companies that are members of the same group of companies within the meaning of section 413(3)(a); | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 2975 |
| group of companies | a group of companies consisting of a holding company and one or more subsidiaries where “holding company” and “subsidiary” have the same meaning as in Article 4 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(22) (“subsidiary”, “holding company” and “wholly-owned subsidiary”). | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 569 |
| group of employers | two or more employers who are formally or informally linked to each other by reasons of common management, shareholding, staff or close business interests; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 569 |
| group of investment companies | any 2 or more registered investment companies that hold themselves out to investors as related companies for purposes of investment and investor services. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| group of jobs | a series of job classes that bear a relationship to each other because of the nature of the work required to perform the work of each job class in the series and that are organized in successive levels. R.S.O. 1990, c. P.7, s. 6 (5-10). | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90p07 |
| group of persons | a producer that is a partnership, cooperative or other association of persons. | Canada | S.C. 1997, c. 20 |
| group of schools | two or more schools providing education for the same age range of pupils and which, where the schools provide secondary education, are either all co-educational, all boys’ single sex or all girls’ single sex.”; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 1800 |
| group of seats | either a bench-type seat, or seats which are separate but side-by-side (i.e., fixed so that the front seat anchorages of one of these seats are in line with the front or rear anchorages of the other or between the anchorages of the other seat) and seat one or more adults; | European Union | 31977L0541 |
| group of shares | the aggregate of the shares in the company of the donee or successor, the relatives of the donee or successor, nominees of the donee or successor, nominees of relatives of the donee or successor, and the trustees of a settlement whose objects include the donee or successor or relatives of the donee or successor; | Ireland | Number 1 of 2003 |
| group of undertakings | a controlling undertaking and its controlled undertakings, and “group undertaking” has a corresponding meaning; | Ireland | Number 20 of 1996 |
| group of units | two or more units managed by the same committee in accordance with regulation 4; | United Kingdom | 2007 No. 2978 |
| group participation rule | a requirement relating to the minimum number of participants or beneficiaries that must be enrolled in relation to a specified percentage or number of eligible individuals or employees of an employer. | United States | 78 FR 13405 |
| group personal pension scheme | arrangements administered on a group basis under a personal pension scheme and which are available to employees of the same employer or of employers within a group; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 1529 |
| group personal pension scheme | arrangements... | United Kingdom | 2009 c. 10 |
| group policy | any policy of insurance in respect of which the policy owner is not an individual; | Singapore | Cap. 77B |
| group recovery plan | a document which provides for measures to be taken in relation to a relevant group to achieve the stabilisation of the group as a whole, or of any institution within the group, where the group or the institution is in a situation of financial stress, in order to address or remove the causes of the financial stress and restore the financial position of the group or institution; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 3348 |
| group regulatory return | consolidated financial information disclosed by a bank in accordance with BIPRU 11; | United Kingdom | 2012 No. 3041 |
| group specific agreement | a collective agreement specified in the schedule; | Canada | S.C. 1989, c. 24 |
| group specific agreement | any agreement specified in Schedule 2. | Canada | S.C. 1999, c. 13 |
| group study | of lecture, workshop, seminar, tutorial, video-conferenced lecture/tutorial or diploma or certificate course or in such other manner as may be more particularly defined and specified in the Scheme; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2012/en/si/05... |
| group subsidiary | a subsidiary of a parent of the bank which is not a parent or subsidiary of the bank. | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 1831 |
| group undertaking | an undertaking which is part of a Community-scale group of undertakings; | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 3323 |
| group water services scheme | of a common or shared source of supply, or related distribution or collection network. | Ireland | Number 30 of 2007 |
| grouped school | a school referred to in regulation 1(4); | United Kingdom | 1999 No. 362 |
| grouper | of fairly reimbursing ASCs for their services. | United States | 72 FR 42470 |
| group | a building society and its subsidiary undertakings.”. | United Kingdom | 2004 No. 3380 |
| group | a company which has one or more 51 per cent. subsidiaries together with that or those subsidiaries; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 3175 |
| grower registration number | the number appearing in the register in accordance with paragraph 14 (e); | Australia | https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C20... |
| grower | any person engaged in the production and sale of pecans in the United States who owns, or who shares the ownership and risk of loss of, such pecans. | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| grower | any person who is cultivating tea in any area or who intends to plant and cultivate tea in any area; | Kenya | CAP. 343 |
| growing season | the growing season which ends on or before 15th October in any calendar year; | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 415 |
| growing year | the period beginning on 1st September in one year and ending on 31st August in the following year.”. | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 3167 |
| guarantee acceptance deed | a deed referred to in paragraph 5 of the Schedule entered into between the Minister and a covered institution and, if required by the Minister pursuant to paragraph 5 of the Schedule, any of the covered institution’s subsidiaries or its parent or both. | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2008/en/si/04... |
| guarantee of origin | an electronic document which has the sole function of providing proof to a final customer that a given share of energy was deemed to be electricity from high efficiency combined heat and power; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2014/en/si/04... |
| guarantee of the signature | a guarantee signed by or on behalf of a person reasonably believed by the issuer to be responsible. | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44 |
| guarantee time | the earliest time when an event specified in paragraph 1(3) of Schedule 1A occurs; | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 387 |
| guaranteed cash equivalent | the cash equivalent of those accrued rights as at the guarantee date, as specified in a statement of entitlement; | United Kingdom | 2015 No. 94 |
| guaranteed copy | a copy, certified as a true copy of the original by a person who also certifies that he has no interest in the outcome of the detonation resistance test on which the detonation resistance certificate is based; | United Kingdom | 2003 No. 1082 |
| guaranteed income payment | a payment made under Article 14(1)(b) or 21(1)(a) of the Armed Forces and Reserve Forces (Compensation Scheme) Order 2005(19); | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 280 |
| guaranteed loan | a loan made in accordance with the requirements of section 3; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. F-22 |
| guaranteed minimum | a guaranteed minimum under section 14 of PSA 1993; | United Kingdom | 2014 No. 217 |
| guaranteed payment | any payment referred to in section 707(c). | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| guaranteed student loan | a loan made in accordance with the requirements of section 7; | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. S-23 |
| guaranteed trust money | money that is received in trust for investment by a company that is a trust company pursuant to subsection 57(2) and that is subject to a guarantee by the company in respect of the payment of interest or repayment of the principal or both; | Canada | S.C. 1991, c. 45 |
| guaranteed unpaid principal | the outstanding amount of the principal the payment of which is guaranteed by the policy; | Singapore | Cap. 142, RG 6 |
| guarantees that any wool product it sells, ships, or delivers will not be misbranded. | all wool products, regardless of the date of sale or shipment. | United States | 79 FR 32157 |
| guarantee | a guarantee signed by or on behalf of a person reasonably believed by the issuer to be a responsible person. (“garantie”) 2006, c. 8, s. 87 (3). | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/06s08 |
| guarantee | a written commitment to assume responsibility for all or part of a third party's debt or obligation or for the successful performance by that third party of its obligations if an event occurs which triggers such guarantee, such as a loan default; | European Union | 32012R0966 |
| guarantor entity | an entity that is created and organized for the principal purpose of holding loans or other assets as the covered bond collateral for a registered program with the intention of legally isolating those loans or other assets from the registered issuer. | Canada | R.S.C., 1985, c. N-11 |
| guarantors | such one or more of the parties to a withdrawal arrangement or an approved withdrawal arrangement as are specified in the arrangement as the persons who have given guarantees in relation to amount B for the purposes of the arrangement; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 132 |
| guarantors | such one or more of the parties to the approved withdrawal arrangement as are specified in the arrangement as the persons who are the guarantors for the purposes of this regulation. | United Kingdom | 2005 No. 2224 |
| guarantor | a body or person which is acceptable to the Committee and is not an admission body or an employing authority, which has agreed to accept responsibility for some or all of the liabilities of the Scheme attributable to an outgoing contributing body; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 410 |
| guarantor | a person that has guaranteed an obligation of an issuer under a trust indenture. | Canada | S.C. 1998, c. 1 |
| guardian ad litem | a guardian ad litem appointed pursuant to Article 60 of the Order or rules made under Article 66 of the Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(2); | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 479 |
| guardian of a convicted person | a person who is the legal guardian of the convicted person, whether the legal relationship between the guardian and convicted person exists because of the age of the convicted person or because of the physical or mental incompetency of the convicted person. | United States | CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - T |
| guardian | a person appointed as a guardian under Article 159 or 160 of the Children Order ;”; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 378 |
| guardian | the person in whose care the orphan normally resides. | Ireland | Number 26 of 2005 |
| guard | of a physical barrier; | United Kingdom | 2008 No. 1597 |
| guest building | a building (other than a hotel or hostel) providing overnight guest accommodation for reward, and includes a guesthouse; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/si/04... |
| guest officers | the officers of border guard services of Member States other than the host Member State participating in joint operations and pilot projects.’; | European Union | 32007R0863 |
| guidance endorsed by the Scottish Ministers | Modernising Trust Ports A Guide to Good Governance (Crown Copyright January 2000). | United Kingdom | 2011 No. 338 |
| guidance for expedited approval facilities | the guidance issued under section 622(c)(4)(B)(i) of this title; | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| guidance | guidance issued by him which is intended to have continuing effect and is issued in writing or other legible form, which if it were a rule, would come within the definition of a rule; | United Kingdom | 2001 No. 3755 |
| guide dog | a dog trained as a guide for a blind person and having the qualifications prescribed by the regulations. (“chien d’aveugle”) R.S.O. 1990, c. B.7, s. 1 (1). | Canada | www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/90b07 |
| guide the plan area's contributions to social and economic sustainability. | for acknowledging the varying and relative importance of plan area contributions to social and economic sustainability as it relates to a range of economic sectors and populations across units and regions. | United States | 77 FR 21161 |
| guide values | the concentrations of nitrogen dioxide as given in Annex II considered over specified periods and intended, in particular, to serve as reference points for the establishment of specific schemes within zones determined by the Member States. | European Union | 31985L0203 |
| guided busway | a busway adapted to provide the mode of guidance for a guided bus so prescribed; | United Kingdom | 2006 No. 3118 |
| guided bus | a way providing the mode of guidance so prescribed; | United Kingdom | 2002 No. 412 |
| guided load | the load where the total movement is made along rigid or flexible guides, whose position is determined by fixed points; | European Union | 31991L0368 |
| guideline level premium | the level annual amount, payable over a period not ending before the insured attains age 95, computed on the same basis as the guideline single premium, except that paragraph (3)(B)(iii) shall be applied by substituting "4 percent" for "6 percent". | United States | uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/pre... |
| guidelines | guidelines issued by the Authority under section 38 ; | Ireland | Number 16 of 2012 |
| gully connection | the section of drainage pipework connecting a gully to its receiving manhole; | United Kingdom | 1998 No. 3220 (S. 196) |
| gunpowder | the explosive substance allocated on classification the UN Number 0027 or 0028; | United Kingdom | 1996 No. 2093 |
| gut flora stabilisers | micro-organisms or other substances, which, when fed to animals, have a positive effect on gut flora; | United Kingdom | 2010 No. 2690 |
| gypsies and travellers | persons of nomadic habit of life, whatever their race or origin, but does not include members of an organised group of travelling show people or persons engaged in travelling circuses, travelling together as such; | United Kingdom | 2013 No. 219 |
| gyroplane | an aircraft defined as directed under the Order; | Ireland | www.irishstatutebook.ie/2000/en/si/03... |
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