section 45
Collector when to refuse service of representative watandar or of deputy nominated by him
The Bombay Hereditary Offices Act, 1874General188685 sections
Statutory text
The Collector shall refuse to accept the service of any representative watandar or of any person nominated by a representative watandar to be his deputy, if such representative watandar or person—
- (a) is under eighteen years of age;
- (b) has not passed such educational test, if any, as [the [State] Government] think fit from time to time to prescribe in this behalf;
- (c) has attained sixty years of age, except when such person's appointment or continuance in office is specially permitted by the Collector;
- (d) is in the opinion of the Collector disabled by lunacy or imbecility of mind, or by deafness, blindness, or other permanent infirmity of body;
- (e) has been adjudged by the Collector after a summary inquiry held in accordance with the provisions relating to summary inquiries contained in Bom. the Bombay Land-Revenue Code, 1879, to be of general bad character :
- (ee) is considered by the Collector to be unfit for office on the ground that he is a wilful defaulter in respect of land revenue or any sum expressly declared by any law for the time being in force to be recoverable as an arrear of land revenue;
- (f) has been sentenced by a criminal court to imprisonment or whipping for an offence punishable with imprisonment for a term exceeding six months, or to transportation, such sentence not having been subsequently reversed or quashed, and whose disqualification on account of such sentence has not been removed by an order which the [Commissioner] is hereby empowered to make if [he] shall think fit, in this behalf;
- (g) declines to forsake, whilst officiating, some other employment which is in the opinion of the Collector incompatible with the due discharge of the duties of the office;
- (h) has been removed from office or declared to be ineligible for re-employment under section 58 unless his re-employment is expressly sanctioned by the [Commissioner]
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