Chief Commissioner
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A Chief Commissioner is a commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner is in principle the title given to a member of a commission or to an individual who has been given a commission ....

 of a high rank, usually in chief of several Commissioners or similarly styled officers.

Colonial

In British India the gubernatorial style was Chief Commissioner in various (not all) provinces (often after being an entity under a lower ranking official), the style being applied especially where an elected assembly did not exist, notably:
  • Ajmer-Merwara
    Ajmer-Merwara
    Ajmer-Merwara is a former province of British India in the historical Ajmer region. The territory of the province was ceded to the British by Daulat Rao Sindhia by a treaty on June 25, 1818....

     1 April 1871 - 15 August 1947 (the last date being the independence of India as a dominion, ending the colonial British raj
    British Raj
    British Raj was the British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947; The term can also refer to the period of dominion...

    )
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands 1872 - August 1945
  • Assam
    Assam
    Assam , also, rarely, Assam Valley and formerly the Assam Province , is a northeastern state of India and is one of the most culturally and geographically distinct regions of the country...

     1912 - 3 January 1921
  • Baluchistan
    Baluchistan (Chief Commissioners Province)
    The Chief Commissioner's Province of Baluchistan was a province of British India located in the northern parts of the modern Balochistan province.- History :...

     19 June 1877 - 3 October 1947
  • Central Provinces and Berar
    Central Provinces and Berar
    The Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India. The province comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered much of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur. The Central Provinces was formed in...

     13 March 1854 - 17 December 1920
  • Coorg 10 April 1834 - 15 August 1947
  • Delhi
    Delhi
    Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...

     1912 - 15 August 1947
  • North-West Frontier Province
    North-West Frontier Province
    Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province and various other names, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan, located in the north-west of the country...

     9 November 1901 - 18 April 1932
  • Panth-Piploda
    Panth-Piploda
    Panth-Piploda was a province of British India. It is located in present-day Ratlam District of Madhya Pradesh state of central India.Panth-Piploda was British India's smallest province, with an area of , and a population of 5267...

     May 1942 - 15 August 1947 sole incumbent Sir Walter Fendall Campbell, Lt. Col. (1894-1973).
  • Punjab
    Punjab (British India)
    Punjab was a province of British India, it was one of the last areas of the Indian subcontinent to fall under British rule. With the end of British rule in 1947 the province was split between West Punjab, which went to Pakistan, and East Punjab, which went to India...

     (first 1 April 1849 - 1853 under a board of administration) till 1 January 1858 (only sole incumbent John Laird Mair Lawrence)

Australia

On two occasions in the late 20th century, local elected government in the City of Melbourne was temporarily replaced by panels of commissioners headed by a Chief Commissioner. http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=52&pa=735&pg=745

Chief Commissioner is also a rank used by Scouts Australia
Scouts Australia
Scouts Australia is an organisation for children and young adults from 6 to 26 years of age. Scouts Australia is part of the global Scouting movement and has been a national member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement since 1953...

 for the Adult Leader
Scout Leader
A Scout Leader or Scouter generally refers to the trained adult leader of a Scout unit. The terms used vary from country to country, over time, and with the type of unit.-Roles:...

 with operational control of Scouting in each State and Territory Branch. There is also a Chief Commissioner of Australia, a position which is more prestigious, although it carries less power.

Also in the state of Victoria, the head of police force is, unlike all the other states and territories, a 'Chief Commissioner'- as opposed to a 'Commissioner'. The reason for this is, during Victoria's pre-federation history, there was more than one commissioner in the colony, one metropolitan and one for the goldfields, hence an additional degree of seniority was introduced. The office of Chief Commissioner has remained since.

Mauritius - Rodrigues

The Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues is the gubernatorial head of the Rodrigues
Rodrigues (island)
Rodrigues , sometimes spelled Rodriguez but named after the Portuguese explorer Diogo Rodrigues, is the smallest of the Mascarene Islands and a dependency of Mauritius...

 island regional government since it was granted autonomy within the independent republic of Mauritius
Mauritius
Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

. The Commissioner comes from the party holding the most seats in the regional assembly.

The incumbents were:
  • Jean Daniel Spéville (12 October 2002 - 4 February 2003)
  • Louis Serge Clair (4 February 2003 - 4 August 2006)
  • Johnson Roussety
    Johnson Roussety
    Johnson Roussety was the Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues from 4 August 2006 until his resignation on 7 January 2011.-References:...

     (4 August 2006 - 12 January 2011)
  • Gaetan Jabeemisar
    Gaetan Jabeemisar
    Gaetan Jabeemisar has been the Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues since 12 January 2011. He assumed the position following the resignation of the former Chief Commissioner, Johnson Roussety, who was under a motion of no confidence.-References:...

     (12 January 2011 -)


However the Chief Executive of Rodrigues
Chief Executive of Rodrigues
The Chief Executive of Rodrigues is in daily charge of the administration on the island of Rodrigues under the Chief Commissioner of Rodrigues.The current Chief Executive is Pritam Singh Mattan.-List of Chief Executives of Rodrigues:...

 is in daily charge of the island administration.

India

In India the post of Chief Commissioner is in Indian Revenue Service
Indian Revenue Service
The Indian Revenue Service , abbreviated as IRS, is the revenue service of the Government of India. It is a Central Civil Service...

(IRS) i.e. Central Excise & Customs Department & Income Tax Department.
Usually the Chief Commissioner is above 3 or 4 Commissioners of C&CE or IT

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