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of persons. any adjudicatory functions;]
Fourth.--Every officer of a Court of Justice
6*[(including a liquidator, receiver or commissioner)] 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 or 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 specially
authorized by a Court of Justice to perform any of such duties;
Fifth.--Every juryman, assessor, or member of a panchayat
assisting a Court of Justice or public servant;
Sixth.--Every arbitrator or other person to whom any cause
or matter has been referred for decision or report by any Court
of Justice, or by any other competent public authority;
Seventh.--Every person who holds any office by virtue of
which he is empowered to place or keep any person in confinement;
Eighth.--Every officer of 7*[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
health, safety or convenience;
Ninth.--Every officer whose duty it is as such officer, to
take, receive, keep or expend any property on behalf of 7*[the
Government], or to make any survey, assessment or contract on
behalf of 7*[the Government], or to execute any revenue-
process, or to investigate, or to report, on any matter affecting
the pecuniary interests of 7*[the Government], or to make.
authenticate or keep any document relating to the pecuniary
interests of 7*[the Government], or to prevent the infraction
of any law for the protection of the pecuniary interests of
7*[the Government] 8****;
Tenth.--Every officer whose duty it is, as such officer, to
take, receive, keep or expend any property, to make any survey or
assessment or to levy any rate or tax for any secular common
purpose of any village, town or district, or to make,
authenticate or keep any document for the ascertaining of the
rights of the people of any village, town or district;
1. Cl. First omitted by the A. O. 1950.
2. Subs. by Act 10 of 1927, s. 2 and Sch. I, for "or Naval".
3. Subs. by the A. O. 1948, for "of the Queen while serving under
any Government in British India or the Crown Representative".
4. The words "of the Dominion" omitted by the A. O. 1950.
5. Subs. by Act 40 of 1964, s. 2, for cl. Third.
6. Ins. by s. 2, ibid.