mandatory order

A person who complies with a mandatory order cannot have legal proceedings taken against him or her for doing so.

The health department issued a mandatory order of evacuation.

Although a majority of the populace evacuated under mandatory orders, some did not.

A mandatory order compels public authorities to fulfill their duties.

A "waveoff" was a mandatory order to abort the landing and go around for another attempt.

The court made a mandatory order compelling the vendor to allow the person to enter so that the valuation could proceed.

At 5 PM this hardened to a mandatory order and she suggested voluntary evacuation for the rest of the island.

Even when the High Court passed directory or mandatory orders in response to his petitions, the local administration did not obey them.

There is no specified time limit within which leave to apply for a mandatory order or prohibiting order must be sought.

Dissatisfied, the applicant obtained leave to apply for a mandatory order for approval to be granted.

A mandatory order is similar to a mandatory injunction (below) as they are orders from the court requiring an act to be performed.

A mandatory order may be linked to the quashing order so as to ensure compliance with the latter.

Unlike the remedies of quashing, prohibiting and mandatory order the court is not telling the parties to do anything in a declaratory judgment.

Nonetheless, it still plays one traditional role: formulating state orders, which are mandatory orders to sell to the state.

The mandatory orders to evacuate New Orleans and many other cities and towns were unequivocal.

Indeed, Britain immediately pledged to introduce a resolution next week for a mandatory order to Iran to stop enriching uranium.

A court may also make mandatory orders or injunctions to compel the authority to do its duty or to stop it from acting illegally.

That report recommended that application for a mandatory order should be made by the liquidator or, with the leave of the court, by a creditor.

Whereas quashing and prohibition orders deal with wrongful acts, a mandatory order addresses wrongful failure to act.

In the latter, the Court has held that it cannot use a mandatory order to direct how and in what manner a public body should perform its duty.

In such a case, the quashing order will set aside the unlawful decision, and the mandatory order will require the public body to reconsider the matter.

"Despite dire warnings of storm surge and certain death from forecasters, an estimated forty percent of Galveston's residents did not evacuate in response to the mandatory order."

However, due to continued noncompliance with several commission-imposed mandatory orders, the station's licence was revoked by the CRTC in July 2008.

On June 30, 2009, the CRTC issued a number of mandatory orders to Pellpropco regarding the management of the station.

Examples of where a mandatory order might be appropriate include: compelling an authority to assess a disabled person's needs, to approve building plans, or to improve conditions of imprisonment.