A competent authority is any
person
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of pr ...
or
organization
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.
The word is derived fro ...
that has the legally delegated or invested authority, capacity, or power to perform a designated function. Similarly, once an authority is delegated to perform a certain act, only the competent authority is entitled to take accounts therefrom and no one else.
Borrowing authority when the services of a certain
class of individuals are entrusted to one of the authority other than the appointing authority, the former will be the borrowing authority.
Borrowing Authority will be authorised to look into the performance of individuals with respect to the task so assigned to them.
Borrowing authority, service conduct
when it appears to the borrowing authority the conduct of the individuals not in accordance with the standard prescribed, it will move in writing to the appointing authority the conduct so observed with the evidence so brought on record for proceedings therein.
Appointing authority, however, is not
competent
Competence may refer to:
*Competence (geology), the resistance of a rock against deformation or plastic flow.
*Competence (human resources), a standardized requirement for an individual to properly perform a specific job
*Competence (law), the me ...
to proceed against the individual without such sort of complaint in writing by the authority which delegated the task. Such proceedings if so initiated without any formal complaint will be ''
coram non judice''.
Based on the
Basel Convention
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nation ...
, it is any national
agency
Agency may refer to:
Organizations
* Institution, governmental or others
** Advertising agency or marketing agency, a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising for its clients
** Employment agency, a business that ...
responsible under its
national law for the control or regulation of a particular aspect of the transportation of hazardous materials (dangerous goods). The term ''appropriate authority'', as used in the
International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international ...
(ICAO) Technical Instructions, has the same meaning as competent authority.
Legal terminology
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