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Chairman
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 b...
Impartiality
The quality of being impartial freedom from bias or favoritism disinterestedness equitableness fairness as impartiality of judgment of treatment etc...
impartial
impartial : not partial or biased : treating or affecting all equally im·par·ti·al·i·ty [im-pÄ r-shē-a-lə-tē] n im·par·tial·ly adv ...
Impartially
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Speaker of the House of Commons
Speaker of the House of Commons. This great officer is the organ or spokesman of the Commons; in modern times he is more occupied in presiding over the deliberations of the House than in delivering speeches on their behalf. The principal duties of the Speaker are the following:-To preside, as Chairman of the House, at its debates when not in committee; to give a casting vote, when the votes are equal, which according to practice he gives in favour of a motion or bill (he has no original vote); to read to the sovereign petitions or addresses from the Commons, and to deliver in the royal presence, whether at the palace or in the House of Lords, such speeches as are usually made on behalf of the Commons; to reprimand persons who have incurred the displeasure of the House; to issue warrants of committal or release for breaches of privilege; and to communicate in writing with any parties, when so instructed by the House. In the case of Bills introduced under the provisions of the (English) ...
Speaker of the House of Lords
Speaker of the House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor, by virtue of his office, becomes, on the delivery of the seal to him by the sovereign, Speaker of the House of Lords. He is usually, but not necessarily, a peer, and unlike the Speaker of the House of Commons is under no obligation to preserve an impartial attitude, since he is a member of the Government for the time being. There has always been a Deputy Speaker, and formerly there were two or more, but since the year 1815 there has been only one. The chairman in committees generally fills the office. In the absence of the Lord Chancellor and of the Deputy Speaker, it is competent to the House to appoint any noble lord to take the woolsack. The Speaker is the organ or mouthpiece of the House, and it therefore is his duty to represent their lordship in their collective capacity, when holding intercourse with other public bodies or with individuals. He has not a casting vote upon divisions, for should the numbers prove equal, the non-co...
London, Port of
London, Port of. The administration is provided for by the Port of London (Consolidation) Act, 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. clxxiii.); s. 6 enacts:-(1) There shall be a chairman and vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority elected and appointed in manner provided by this Act for the purpose of administering, preserving and improving the Port of London and otherwise for the purposes of this Act, and the several persons who now constitute and shall, from time to time constitute the Port Authority, shall notwithstanding the repeal of enactments effected by this Act, continue and be a body corporate by the name of 'the Port of London Authority, and by that name shall continue to have perpetual succession and a common seal having power to acquire and hold land for the purposes of this Act without licence in mortmain.(2) The several persons who were respectively the chairman, vice-chairman and other members of the Port Authority immediately before the passing of this Act, and shall ...
Casting vote
Casting vote, the vote given by the chairman or president of a deliberative assembly when the suffrages of the meeting are equal. The chairman, though not disqualified by law from voting, Nell v. Longbottom, 1894 (1) QB 767, is usually not entitled to vote in the first instance.The Speaker of the House of Commons (though he was no vote in the first instance) has a casting vote, and by the practice of the House gives it in favour of a motion or bill, so as to give opportunity for further consideration. So has the mayor or other chairman at a meeting of a town council (English) (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 22, and Sched. II., r. 11), and the Chairman of a (English) Country Council (Local) Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 75), and the chairman of a parish meeting, or Parish Council (Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), Sched. I., Pt. 2, r. 8, and Pt. 3, r. 10). These Acts have been replaced, except in regard to London, by the Local...
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