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Supervision, supervise in the ordinary dictional sense 'to supervise' means to direct or over-see the performance or operation of an activity and to over-see it, watch over and direct. It is work under eye and gaze of someone who can immediately direct a corrective and tender advice. In the textual sense 'supervision' of the principal employer or his agent is on work at the places envisaged and the word work can neither be construed so broadly to be the final act of acceptance or rejection work, nor so narrowly so as to be supervision at all times and at each and every step of the work, C.E.S.C. Ltd. v. Subhash Chandra Bose, (1992) 1 SCC 441: AIR 1992 SC 573....
Supervise
Supervise, and its derivatives are not words of precise import and must often be construed in the light of the context, for, unless controlled, they cover an easily simple oversight and direction as manual work coupled with a power of inspection and superintendence of the manual work of others, All India Reserve Bank Employees' Association v. Reserve Bank of India, AIR 1966 SC 305.The word 'supervise' covers manual work coupled with a power of inspection and superintendence of the manual work of others, R.B. Employees Association v. Reserve Bank, AIR 1966 SC 305 (314). [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 s. 2(s)...
Police supervision
Police supervision. Where a person is twice con-victed on indictment he may be subject to police supervision for not more than seven years in addition to any other punishment. He is obliged to notify his place of residence to the chief officer of police of the district, and, if a male, to report himself monthly to this officer or to some one nominated by him [(English) Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, s. 8, and amending Acts 54 & 55 Vict. c. 69, and 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58, s. 26]....
supervised release
supervised release see revocation of probation. Source: Federal Judicial Center ...
Active supervision
Active supervision, means under the test for determining whether a private entity may claim a state-action exemption from the anti-trust laws, the right of the State to review the entity's anti-competitive acts and to disapprove those acts that do not pronote State policy, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 33....
To supervise
To supervise, means to direct or oversee the performance or operation of an activity and to oversee it, watch over and direct. It is work under eye and gaze of someone who can immediately direct a corrective and tender advice, CESC Limited v. Subhash Chandra Bose, (1992) 1 SCC 441....
Agent and servant
Agent and servant, an agent has to be distinguished on the one hand from a servant and on the other from an independent contractor. A servant acts under the direct control and supervision of his master and is bound to conform to all reasonable orders given in the course of his work.... An agent though bound to exercise his authority in accordance with all lawful instructions which may be given to him from time to time by principal, is not subject in its exercise to the direct control or supervision of the principal, Qamar Shaffi Tyabji v. CEPT, AIR 1960 SC 1269 (1271): (1960) 3 SCR 546.A servant acts under the direct control and supervision of the master, and is bound to conform to all reasonable orders given to him in the course of his work...An agent though bound to exercise his authority in accordance with all lawful instructions which may be given to him from time to time by his principal , is not subject in its exercise to the direct control or supervision of the principal, Chandi...
Employer
Employer, means (i) a company; (ii) a firm; (iii) an association of persons or a body of individuals, whether incorporated or not, but excluding any fund or trust or institution eligible for exemption under clause (23C) of section 10 or registered under section 12AA; (iv) a local authority; and (v) every artificial judicial person, not falling within any of the preceding sub-clauses. [Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), s. 115W(a)]Employer, means:A person who controls and direct a worker under an express or implied contract of hire and who pays the workers salary or wages, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.(a) in relation to contract labour, the principal employer, and(b) in relation to other labour, the person who has the ultimate control over the affairs of any establishment or who has, by reason of his advancing money, supplying goods or otherwise, a substantial interest in the control of the affairs of any establishment, and includes any other person to whom the affairs of the establi...
Superintendence
Superintendence, Superintendence connotes super-vision which implies hierarchy, viz., supervisor and the one supervised. It would, therefore, mean keeping a check, watch over the work of another who may be a subordinate in a hierarchy of authority. It would also comprehend that supervision is not merely a negative thing so as to keep a watch but it would imply giving of direction, guidance, even instructions, and in a given case and in a given situation asking one who is being supervised to forbear from doing a thing and directing some one else to do that thing, State of Bihar v. J.A.C. Saldhana, (1980) 1 SCC 554: AIR 1980 SC 326 (333). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1974, ss. 36, 156, 173]...
Winding-up
Winding-up, the process by which an insolvent estate is distributed, as far as it will go, amongst the persons having claims upon it. The term is most frequently applied to the winding-up of joint-stock companies.The property of a company is collected and distributed firstly in discharge of its liabilities, and secondly, among its members according to their respective rights with a view to its dissolution. If the assets are not sufficient to meet the liabilities, a company is usually wound up by the Court. In other cases the winding-up is usually voluntary and conducted by the company itself either with or without the supervision of the Court. The provisions of the (English) Companies Act, 1929, govern a winding-up in any of these three modes (s. 156). In any winding-up the members who may be called upon to contribute are ascertained and their liability determined under ss. 157-162; see CONTRIBUTORIES. Debts and claims of all kinds require to be proved and if not of certain value to be...
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