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Electrical Inspector

Electrical Inspector, means a person appointed as such by the appropriate Government under sub-s. (1) of s. 162 and also includes Chief Electrical Inspector, Electricity Act, 2003, s. 2(21)....


Telegraph line

Telegraph line, 'telegraph line' means a wire or wires used for the purpose of an appliance or apparatus for receiving telegraphic or other communications by means of electricity. The wires of the aerial as well as of the apparatus are used for the purpose of the apparatus receiving communications. If so, it follows that the receiving apparatus employs 'telegraph lines' within the meaning of s. 3(4) of the Telegraph Act, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (161): (1962) 3 SCR 146. [Telegraph Act, 1885, s. 3(1) 2(4)]Means a wire or wires used for the purpose of a telegraph, with any casing, coating, tube or pipe enclosing the same, and any appliances and apparatus connected therewith for the purpose of fixing or insulating the same. [Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 (13 of 1885), s. 3 (4)]Telegraph line, is comprehensive to take in the wires used for the purpose of the apparatus of the post and telegraph wireless station, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan...


Line

Line, succession of relations (see INHERITANCE); boundary; the twelfth part of an inch.The word 'line' in the expression 'telegraph line' connotes the existence of a defined channel of communication which has got a physical existence, Senior Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (161): (1962) 3 SCR 146.Means any wire, cable, tube, pipe, insulator, conductor or other similar thing (including its casing or coating) which is designed or adapted for use in carrying electricity and includes any line which surrounds or supports, or is surrounded or supported by or is installed in close proximity to, or is supported, carried or suspended in association with, any such line. [Electricity Act, 2003 (36 of 2003), s. 2(40)]...


Inspector

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,...


Contemporanea expositio

Contemporanea expositio, it is a well-settled principle or doctrine which applies only to the construction of ambiguous language in old statutes, Doypock Systems (P.) Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1988 SC 782 (801).The maxim contemporanea expositio as laid downby Coke was applied to construing ancientstatutes, but not to interpreting Acts which are comparatively modern, Seniar Electric Inspector v. Laxminarayan Chopra, AIR 1962 SC 159 (163); See also Desh Bandhu Gupta v. Delhi Stock Exchange Association Ltd., AIR 1979 SC 1049 (1054)....


american society of home inspectors

american society of home inspectors the American Society of Home Inspectors is a professional association of independent home inspectors. Phone: (800) 743-2744 Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...


Food Inspectors

Food Inspectors. The (English) Food and Drugs (Adulteration) Act, 1928 (18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 31), has provisions dealing with inspectors, who have powers of sampling food at the place of or in the course of delivery to a purchaser; such officers are called sampling officers (s. 16 of the Act).For inspection of Bakehouses, Cookhouses, and Weights an Measures, see those titles....


Inspector-General

Inspector-General, means the Inspector-General of the Force appointed under s. 5. [Border Security Force Act, 1968 (47 of 1968), s. 2(1) (n)]...


Electric lighting

Electric lighting. The supply of electricity for light-ing is facilitated and regulated by the (English) Electric Lighting Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 56). Under this Act powers may be obtained either (1) by license from the Board of Trade; or (2) by Provisional Order of the Board of Trade, needing confirmation by special Act of Parliament; or (3) by special Act of Parliament. The (English) Electric Lighting Clauses Act, 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 19), has incorporated in one Act the usual clauses of provisional orders and special Acts, and directed that such clauses are to apply to every undertaking under the Electric Lighting Acts except so far as expressly varied. These licenses and orders may either be granted to the local authorities themselves or, with their consent, to independent contractors. Licenses continue in force for any period not exceeding seven years, but are renewable. By s. 27 of the (English) 1882 Act an undertaking autho-rized by provisional order or special Act may be...


Electric

Pertaining to electricity consisting of containing derived from or produced by electricity as electric power or virtue an electric jar electric effects an electric spark an electric charge an electric current an electrical engineer...


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