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Inspecting Officer
Inspecting Officer, 'inspection officer' means a person authorised by the State Government or by the licensing authority to inspect any psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(c)]...
Inspector-General of the Forces
Inspector-General of the Forces. An officer origin-ally appointed in 1904, whose duty it is to inspect the Army and report upon its efficiency to the Army Council. The office is now in abeyance....
Certified copies
Certified copies, every public officer having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to inspect, shall give that person or demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefor, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed, whenever such officer is authorised by law to make use of a seal; and such copies so certified shall be called certificate copies (Indian Evidence Act, 1872, s. 76)...
Unclaimed property
Unclaimed property. This devolves on the Crown at Common Law. Unclaimed property may be dealt with under the heads of (1) Government Stock, (2) Chancery Funds, (3) Stock in Public Companies, (4) Bankers' Balances, (5) Deposits with Bankers for Safe Custody, and (6) Found Property.(1) Government Stock.-The National Debt Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 71), ss. 51 et seq., as extended by 20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 28, s. 49 provides that stock on which no dividend has been claimed for ten years must be transferred to the National Debt Commissioners. Lists of names in which the stock stood, with residence, description and amount of stock and date of transfer, are to be kept at the Bank of England [or Ireland, but see 13 Geo. 5, c. 2, s. 6 (d)] and at the National Debt Office, open to inspection, and also kept in duplicate at the National Debt Office. The stock may be re-transferred to persons showing title after, in the case of stock exceeding 20l., three months' public notice by advertisement. A sec...
public record
public record : a record required by law to be made and kept: a : a record made by a public officer or a government agency in the course of the performance of a duty b : a record filed in a public office NOTE: Public records are subject to inspection, examination, and copying by any member of the public. ...
Examiner
One who examines tries or inspects one who interrogates an officer or person charged with the duty of making an examination as an examiner of students for a degree an examiner in chancery in the patent office etc...
Ale-conner, or Ale-founder, or Ale-kenner
Ale-conner, or Ale-founder, or Ale-kenner [gustator, cerevisi' Lat.], one who kens or knows what good ale is; an officer appointed at a curt-leet, who is sworn to look at the assize and goodness of ale and beer within the precincts of the lordship, Kitch. 46. Thee were at one time four ale-conners, chosen by the liverymen of the City of London, in Common hall, on Midsummer-day, whose office it was to inspect the measures used in public-houses....
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....
Exciseman
An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty...
Butter factory
Butter factory. 'Any premiseson which by way of trade butter is blended, re-worked or subjected to any other treatment, but not so as to cease to be butter.' Such premises have to be registered and are open to inspection by any officer of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries or of the Local Government Board, by virtue of the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907. See MARGARINE....
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