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Officer. See ARMY; NAVY. A contract between the Crown and any of its military or naval officers for services rendered or to be rendered is not enforceable in a Court of law, see Jynaston v. A.G., 49 TLR 300.It means a person commissioned, gazetted or in pay as an officer in the Air Force, and includes--(a) an officer of any Air Force Reserve or the Auxiliary Air Force who is for the time being subject to this Act.(b) in relation to a person subject to this Act when serving under such conditions as may be prescribed, an officer of the regular Army or the Navy. [Air Force Act, 1950, s. 4(xxiii)]It means a president, vice-president, chairperson, vice chair-person, managing director, secretary, manager, member of a board, treasurer, liquidator, an administrator appointed under s. 123 and includes any other person empowered under this Act or the rules or the bye-laws to give directions in regard to the business of a multi-State co-operative society. [Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, ...
Public officer
Public officer, means a person falling under any of the following descriptions, namely:-(a) every Judge;(b) every member of an All India Service;(c) every commissioned or gazetted officer in the military naval or air forces of the Union while serving under the Government.(d) Every officer of a court of justice whose duty it is, as such officer, to investigate or report on any matter of law or fact, or to make, authenticate or keep any document, or to take charge of dispose of any property, or to execute any judicial process, or to administer any oath, or to interpret, or to preserve order, in the Court, and every person especially authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties.(e) Every person who holds any office by virtue of which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement;(f) Every officer of the Government whose duty it is, as such officer, to prevent offences, to give information of offences, to bring offenders to justice, or to protect the public h...
Adjudicating officer
Adjudicating officer, means the officer appointed by the Board as adjudicating officer under section 19H of the Act [Depositories (Procedure for Holding Inquiry and Imposing Penalties by Adjudicating Officer) Rules, 2005, R. 2(b)]Means the officer appointed by the securities and Exchange Board of India as adjudicating officer under section 23-I of the Act. [Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Procedure for Holding Inquiry and Imposing Penalties by Adjudicating Officer) Rules, 2005, R. 2(b)]means an adjudicating officer appointed under sub-s. (1) of s. 46. [Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000), s. 2 (1) (c)]...
Commanding Officer
Commanding Officer, used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means the officer for the time being in command of the unit or detachment to which such person belongs or is attached. [Air Force Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 4 (xv)]when used in any provision of this Act, with reference to any separate portion of the regular army or to any department thereof, means the officer whose duty it is under the regulations of the regular Army, or in the absence of any such regulations, by the custom of the service, to discharge with respect to that portion of the regular Army or that department, as the case maybe, the functions of a commanding officer in regard to matters of the description referred to in that provision. [Army Act, 1950 (45 of 1950), s. 3 (v)]'Commanding officer', used in relation to a person subject to this Act, means an officer for the time being in command of a unit or any separate portion of the Force to which such person belongs or is attached. [Indo-Tibetan Border Polic...
Officer in charge of a police station
Officer in charge of a police station, includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when, the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2(o)]The sub-Inspector and other senior officers were away on other duty. A clerk attached to the station an 'officer in charge of the police station', Pyli Yaccob v. State, AIR 1953 Trav 466....
Police officer
Police officer, the expression 'police officer' used in s. 523, Criminal Procedure Code, is to be construed strictly. A Customs Officer cannot be regarded as police officer, Assistant Collector of Customs v. Tilak Raj Shiv Dayal, AIR 1969 Del 301 (303). [Cr. P.C., 1898, s. 523]A Customs Officer conducting an inquiry under s. 107 or 108 of the Act is not a Police Officer and the person against whom the inquiry is made is not an accused and the statement made by such a person in that inquiry 'is not a statement made by a person accused of an offence', Percy Rustomji Basta v. State of Maharashtra, AIR 197 SC 1087 (1091); See also Illias v. Collector of Customs, AIR 1970 SC 1065. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 25)...
Revenue officer
Revenue officer, means any officer whom the State Government may appoint by name or by virtue of his office to discharge any of the functions of a Revenue officer in any area within the local limits of the Municipal Corporation of Kolkata and Howrah and other municipalities under the jurisdiction of Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. [Kolkata Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 2(k)]Revenue Officer, the term 'revenue officer' is wide and comprehensive enough to include the T.R.O. who effects a compulsory sale for the recovery of an income-tax demand, Shanti Devi, L. Singh v. Tax Recovery Officer, AIR 1991 SC 1880 (1883). [Registra-tion Act, 1908 (16 of 1908), s. 89]...
Probation officer
Probation officer, means an officer appointed by the State Government as a probation officer under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. [ Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, s. 2 (s)]Means an officer appointed to be a probation officer or recognised as such under s. 13. [Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (20 of 1958), s. 2 (b)]...
Returning Officer
Returning Officer, the official who conducts an election. The Representation of the People Act, 1918, s. 28, provides that in parliamentary elections the sheriff shall be the returning officer in counties, and in parliamentary boroughs which have a sheriff and in other boroughs the mayor, or in some cases the chairman of the council. As to returning officers at university elections, see Sch. V., Part I., s. 1. As to county council, municipal, parish council, rural district, and urban district elections, see the same Act as amended by the (English) R.P. Act, 1922, and (English) Local Government Act, 1933.The same Acts provide that the duties of the return-ing officer are to be discharged by the registration officer (see REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS). In parliamentary elections the returning officer, if registered, is to have the casting vote but no other vote, by the Parliamentary Elections (Returning Officers Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 84)...
Land Record Officer
Land Record Officer, means the District Land Records Officer or Additional District Land Records Officer or Assistant Land Record Officer appointed under this Act. [Rajasthan Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 3(b)]...
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