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Rh “senior officer of the Commission” means the Chief Commissioner, the Deputy Chief Commissioner, a Commissioner, a Deputy Commissioner, a Chief Senior Assistant Commissioner, a Senior Assistant Commissioner, an Assistant Commissioner, a Senior Superintendent, and a Superintendent;

“officer of the Commission” means the Chief Commissioner and any officer appointed under subsection 6(1);

“purchaser in good faith for valuable consideration” means any transferee, assignee, chargee, mortgagee, pledgee, holder of a lien, or lessee, of any property where the transfer, assignment, charge, mortgage, pledge, lien, or lease was obtained by him for adequate consideration in money or money’s worth, without notice that the property was obtained in consequence of the commission of any offence under this Act;

“business” means any activity carried on for the purpose of gain or profit and includes all property derived from or used in or for the purpose of carrying on such activity, and all the rights and liabilities arising from such activity;

“statutory authority” means an authority, whether consisting of a single person or a body of persons, established by Federal or State law and exercising powers, discharging duties or performing functions conferred upon the authority by any Federal or State law;

“local authority” has the meaning assigned to it in section 2 of the Local Government Act 1976 [Act 171];

“principal” includes any employer, any beneficiary under a trust, any trust estate, any person beneficially interested in the estate of a deceased person, the estate of a deceased person, and, in the case of any person serving in or under a public body, the public body;

“relative”, in relation to a person, means—
 * (a) a spouse of the person;
 * (b) a brother or sister of the person;
 * (c) a brother or sister of the spouse of the person;