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Chairman, 'Chairman' according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary means a person chosen to preside over meetings, e.g., one who presides over the meetings of the Board of Directors. In Black's Law Dictionary, 6th Ed., p. 230, the same expression is defined as a name given to a Presiding Officer of an assembly, public meeting, convention, deliberative or legislative body, board of directors, committee, etc. Similar meanings have been attributed to that expression in Ballentine's Law Dictionary, 3rd Ed., pp. 189-190, Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary, Unabridged, 2nd Ed., p. 299, and Aiyer's Judicial Dictionary, 11th Ed., p. 238. The function of the Chairman would, therefore, be to preside over meetings, preserve order, conduct the business of the day, ensure that precise decisions are taken and correctly recorded and do all that is necessary for smooth transaction of business. The nature and duties of this office may vary depending on the nature of business to be transacted but by and large these would be the functions of a Chairman. He must so conduct himself at the meetings chaired by him that he is able to win the confidence of his colleagues on he commission and carry them with him, T.N. Seshan, Chief Election Commr. of India v. Union of India, (1995) 4 SCC 611 (631). (Constitution of India, Art. 324)

Means the person appointed in accordance with the Banking Act, 1987, s. 28, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 3(1), para 62, p. 57 [Banking Appeal Tribunal Regulation 1987, Reg. 2(1) (UK)].

Chairman, the Vice-President of India is ex-officio Chairman of Rajya Sabha [Constitution of India, Art. 89]

Chairman, is a person who presides over the sitting of a Legislative House in the absence of the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Dictionary of Constitution and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariate, 2005, p. 44.

Chairman, in Lok Sabha, Speaker nominates a panel of not more than six chairmen from amongst the members. Any one of them may preside over the House in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker when requested to do so and all references to the Speaker in these rules shall be deemed to be references to any such presiding person, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 9, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 127.