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Specially appointed, the expressional 'specially appointed' means appointment for specific purpose, AIR 1965 Pat 446 (447). [Bihar Panchayat Election Rules, 1959 r. 2(9)] The word 'specially' has reference to the special purpose of appointment and is not used to convey the sense of a special as against a general appointment. The word 'specially' thus connotes the appointment of an officer or officers to perform functions which ordinarily Collector would perform under the Act. It qualifies the word 'appointed' and means no more than that he is appointed specially to perform the functions entrusted by the Act to the Collector, Abdul Hussain Tayabali v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1968 SC 432 (436). [Land Acquisition Act, 1894, s. 3(c)]

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