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COMMISSIONER , in See also:general an officer appointed to carry out some particular See also:work, or to See also:discharge the See also:duty of a particular See also:office; one who is a member of a See also:commission (q.v.). In this sense the word is applied to members of a permanently constituted See also:department of the See also:administration, as See also:civil service commissioners, commissioners of income tax, commissioners in lunacy, &c. It is also the See also:title given to the heads of or important officials in various governmental departments, as commissioner of customs. In some See also:British possessions in See also:Africa and the Pacific the See also:head of the See also:government is styled high commissioner. In See also:India a commissioner is the See also:chief administrative See also:official of a See also:division which includes several districts. The office does not exist in See also:Madras, where the same duties are discharged by a See also:board of See also:revenue, but is found in most of the other provinces. .The commissioner comes midway between the See also:local government and the See also:district officer. In the regulation provinces the district officer is called a See also:collector (q.v.), and in the non-regulation provinces a See also:deputy-commissioner. In the former he must always be a member of the covenanted civil service, but in the latter he may be a military officer. A chief commissioner is a high See also:Indian official, governing a See also:province inferior in status to a See also:lieutenant-governorship, but in See also:direct subordination to the See also:governor-general in See also:council. The provinces which have chief commissioners are the Central Provinces and See also:Berar, the See also:North-See also:West Frontier Province and See also:Coorg. The See also:agent to the governor-general of See also:Baluchistan is also chief commissioner of British Baluchistan, the agent to the governor-general of See also:Rajputana is also chief commissioner of the British district of See also:Ajmere-Merwara, and there is a chief commissioner of the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Several provinces, such as the See also:Punjab, Oudh, See also:Burma and See also:Assam, were administered by chief commissioners before they were raised to the status of lieutenant-governorships (see LIEUTENANT). A commissioner for oaths in See also:England is a See also:solicitor appointed by the See also:lord See also:chancellor to administer oaths to persons making affidavits for the purpose of any cause or See also:matter. The Commissioner for Oaths See also:Act 188g - (with an amending act 1891), amending and consolidating various other acts, regulates the See also:appointment and See also:powers of such commissioners. In most large towns the minimum qualification for appointment is six years' continuous practice, and the application must be supported by two barristers, two solicitors and at least six neighbours of the applicant. The See also:charge made by commissioners for every See also:oath, See also:declaration, See also:affirmation or See also:attestation upon See also:honour is one See also:shilling and sixpence; for marking each exhibit (a document or other thing sworn to in an See also:affidavit and shown to a deponent when being sworn), one shilling. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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