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Indian consulate, 'Indian consulate' means the office of any consular officer of the Government of India where a register of births is kept, or where there is no such office, such office as may be prescribed. [Citizenship Act, 1955 (57 of 1955), s. 2(1) (d)]...
Indian consular officer
Indian consular officer, 'Indian consular officer' means the consul-general, consul, vice-consul, con-sular agent and proconsul appointed as such by the Central Government, and includes any person authorised by the Central Government to perform the functions of consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent or proconsul. [Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958), s. 3(1)(17)]...
Vice consul
Vice consul, Consular officer shall include consul-general, consul, vice-consul, consular-agent, pro-consul and any person for the time being authorised to perform the duties of consul-general consul, vice-consul or consular-agent. [General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), s. 3(16)]...
Consul
Consul, an officer appointed by competent authority to reside in a foreign country, to facilitate and extend the commerce carried on between the subjects of the country which appoints him and those of the country or place in which he is to reside. The office appears to have originated in Italy, about the middle of the twelfth century, and was generally established all over Europe in the sixteenth century. British consuls were formerly appointed by the Crown, upon the recommenda-tion of great trading companies, or of merchants engaged in trade with a particular country and place; but they are now directly appointed by Government, without requiring any such recommendation, though it, of course, is always attended to wen made. The right of sending consuls to reside in foreign countries depends either upon a tacit or express convention.The duties of a consul, even in the confined sense in which they are commonly understood, are important and multifarious. It is his business to be always on...
Vice-Consul
Vice-Consul, a consular officer, which expression by the Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 12 (20), includes consul-general, consul, vice-consul, and any person for the time authorized to discharge their duties, and also consular-agent; see CONSUL; a sheriff....
consulate
consulate 1 : the office, term of office, or jurisdiction of a consul 2 : the residence or official premises of a consul ...
vice-consul
vice-consul : a consular officer subordinate to a consul general or to a consul ...
consul
consul : an official appointed by a government to reside in a foreign country in order to represent the commercial interests of citizens of the appointing country con·su·lar [-sə-lər] adj con·sul·ship n ...
Consulate
The office of a consul...
Indian customs water
Indian customs water, means the waters extending into the sea upto the limit of contiguous zone of India under s. 5 of the Territorial Waters Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976 and includes any bay, gulf, harbour, creek or tidal river. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (28)]Indian customs waters, Indian Customs waters' covers not only, Indian coastal waters but also much more because the customs waters extends 24 nautical miles from the coastal baseline which follows that Indian coastal waters are within the Indian Customs Waters, Hawabi Sayed Arif Sayed Hanif v. L. Hrringliana, (1993) 1 SCC 163: AIR 1993 SC 810 (816). [Territorial Waters, Continental Shelf, Exclusive Economic Zone and other Maritime Zones Act, 1976, ss. 3(2) and 5]...
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