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Definition :

Inspector, an overseer, examiner and reporter. There are government and local authority inspectors of factories, mines, shops, weights and measures, ancient monuments, schools, explosives, inebriate reformatories, railways, food, housing and sanitation, Health and Unemployment Insurance, to name a few only of the extensive powers of investigation and inspection by government and other public bodies. As to Board of Trade inspectors to investigate the affairs of a company, see (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 135; and inspectors appointed by the company itself by special resolution (s. 137, ibid.).

Inspector means an Inspector of Mines appointed under this Act, and includes a district magistrate when exercising any power or performing any duty of an Inspector which he is empowered by this Act to exercise or perform. [Mines Act, 1952 (35 of 1952), s. 2(i)]

Means an Inspector appointed by the Council under s. 23, the Maharashtra State Council for Occupational, Therapy and Physiotherapy Act, 2002, s. 2(d).