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The Crawford Library is a library of early books about philately formed between 1898 and 1913 by James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford. By the time of his death in 1913, Crawford was thought to have amassed the greatest philatelic library of his time. Today, the library is part of the British Library Philatelic Collections.

Formation and bequest
Crawford was a noted bibliophile long before he became interested in philately. The family library, the "Bibliotheca Lindesiana" located at Haigh Hall in Haigh near Wigan, had its origins in the sixteenth century and became world-famous among scholars for its scope and the many bibliographies of its stock which exceeded 100,000 volumes.

The Tiffany Library
Not long after 1897, Crawford purchased the library of philatelic literature formed by John K. Tiffany of St. Louis, Missouri, the first president of the American Philatelic Society, and which was thought to be the most complete formed up to that time. Tiffany's library was particularly strong on United States philatelic journals and he was calculated to have 97% of everything published on American philately by the time of his death, including dealer's price lists, society records and even stamp related music. Much of Tiffany's library was included in the work which he produced for the Boston Public Library in 1874 entitled The Philatelical Library. (Free download of The Philatelical Library here.)

The Tiffany Library was acquired for Crawford by Charles J. Phillips, then managing director of Stanley Gibbons, who viewed it while travelling in America. He informed Crawford that the condition of the library was not good and the price of $10,000 (about £2,000 at the time) was too high but Crawford told him to buy it at that price anyway. The library consisted of 909 bound volumes and 136 unbound as well as an extensive card index to its contents which was valuable in itself. It was delivered to Crawford in 39 boxes at his London home of 2 Cavendish Square on 28 June 1901. Phillips charged a 5% commission for the negotiations.

After the purchase of the Tiffany Library, Crawford employed Edward Denny Bacon as curator of the collection. Bacon worked from Cavendish Square, sorting and cataloguing the works and he was assiduous in tracking down missing philatelic periodicals with the help of Stanley Gibbons.

The Fraenkel Library
A further addition was the library of the late Judge Heinrich Fraenkel of Berlin, a former librarian of the Berliner Philatelisten-Klub, which included strong holdings of German literature and also incorporated the library of Sigmund Friedl of Vienna. This library totalled 39 cases of books with surplus material being donated to the Royal Philatelic Society for their library.

Donation
Crawford was a trustee of the British Museum and following his death on 31 January 1913, the library was donated to the British Museum by a codicil to his Will. The library was received on 17 March 1913.  In 1973 it passed to the British Library following a reorganisation.

Catalogues
In 1911, a catalogue of the library by Edward Denny Bacon was published by the Aberdeen University Press under the title Bibliotheca Lindesiana, Vol VII: A Bibliography of the Writings General, Special and Periodical Forming the Literature of Philately and in 1911 the rights to the work were assigned to the Philatelic Literature Society (PLS). The Society republished the work as The Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, K.T., a work which won a Large Gold medal at the Postwertzeichen Ausstellung stamp exhibition in Vienna in 1911. A supplement to the catalogue was published in 1926 by the PLS and an addenda in the March 1938 edition of The London Philatelist, both by E.D. Bacon.

In 1991, a new edition of the catalogue was published by the British Library with shelf marks and marginalia by E.D. Bacon included and a preface by David Beech.

Not all the works mentioned in these books are included in the library, as the original book was a bibliography of all known philatelic works, and not a catalogue of Crawford's library.

Preservation
In 1985 a major project started to microfilm the library as many of the works were found to have deteriorated with age. This has now been completed.

In addition, by February 2011, about 80% of the library had been rebound, with and without conservation work such as deacidification and lamination.

Viewing the library
The works may be viewed in the British Library's Rare Books & Music Reading Room.

Contents
The library includes approximately 4500 volumes and is notable for containing:
 Early postal notices of China.
 Frederick Booty's Aids to Stamp Collectors, 1862. The first postage stamp catalogue in English.
 The notebooks of Judge F.A. Philbrick, one of the first philatelists.
 Literature and ephemera from the early Philatelic Congresses of Great Britain.
 Mount Brown's Catalogue of British, Colonial, and Foreign Postage Stamps, 1862. The second stamp catalogue in English.
 The earliest known Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue.
 Dr J.E. Gray's A Hand Catalogue of Postage Stamps for the use of the Collector, 1862. One of the first stamp catalogues. Free download here.
 The first fifteen editions of the catalogue by J.W. Scott & Co.
 A.C. Kline's Stamp Collectors' Manual. First edition.
 Material from Oscar Berger-Levrault, Jean-Baptiste Moens and Pierre Mahé & Son.
 A drawing by Adolph Reinheimer depicting the first recorded public display of postage stamps at the Vandermaelen Museum in Brussels (1852).

See also
 The Crawford Medal. A medal awarded by the Royal Philatelic Society London for philatelic literature.
 List of philatelic libraries
 Philatelic literature
 The Crawford Collection at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.

References

Further reading
 Bacon, Edward Denny. Catalogue of the Crawford Library of philatelic literature at the British Library. Revised edition. New York: Printer's Stone in association with the British Library, 1991.

External links
 British Library Philatelic Collections: The Crawford Library.

Philatelic libraries
British Library Philatelic Collections
1898 establishments in England

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The tonograph () is a device invented by Italian scientist Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi (1764-1852) and presented at the Terza riunione degli scienziati italiani (the "Third Meeting of Italian Scientists"), held in Florence in September 1841.

The original device was donated by its inventor Cagnazzi during the Third Meeting of Italian Scientists. After then, the instrument went lost, but in 1932 ca., thanks to the work of a scholar, it was found in a cellar and exhibited at the Museo Galileo, located in Piazza dei Giudici, Florence. The original device is now stored in the Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, Milan. A copy of the device was commissioned by Count Celio Sabini (from Altamura) and it's now displayed at the museum Archivio Biblioteca Museo Civico, located in Altamura.

Making
According to Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi's unpublished autobiography La mia vita, the tonograph was made by Cagnazzi himself with his own hands ("colle mie mani") in 1841. He also wrote a short essay about how it worked and its purpose and this work was first written in Latin language and published under the name Tonographiae Excogitatio (1841), since Cagnazzi wanted its invention to be known in what it was then known as Germany. Subsequently, he translated his essay to Italian language on the occasion of the Third Meeting of Italian Scientists, held in Florence, where he presented his invention.

According to Cagnazzi, his device was very much appreciated during the Third Meeting.

Working principle
The tonograph is a device consisting of a hollow brass cylindrical section closed at one end and equipped with a hole. The cylinder is in all respects similar to that of the organs. Through bellows, operated through one's feet, the air flows through the cylindrical tube making a sound. Inside the cylinder there is a piston whose position is regulated by a thin rod and, as the position of the piston changes, the length of the cylinder also changes. As the plunger (and therefore the rod) changes, the instrument will generate a different sound. A graduated scale makes it possible to "measure" the intonation and inflection of human voice, by matching one's voice with the sound made by the device.

The scale provided by Cagnazzi, apparently, also related to the harmonic and diatonic scale employed in music. Cagnazzi assumes that there is roughly an inverse proportionality between the length of a closed cylindrical tube and the sound's frequency. Based on this assumption, he came to define the width of the scale and he related the scale of the device with the scale of musics.

The device was meant not only to measure, but also to preserve the tones and inflections of human voice (for example, by transcribing them above or below a text). Therefore, it also represents, in a broad sense, a device which helps store some kind of information.

During the presentation of the device, which took place in 1841 at the Third Meeting of Italian Scientists, during which the device was donated to the department, Professor Giovanni Alessandro Majocchi praised Cagnazzi for his invention, as it provided declamation schools with a way to precisely and successfully store the tone and intensity of human voice. The diatonic and chromatic scales of music didn't have enough notches to accurately represent the tone and intensity of human voice. During the presentation, chemist Giuseppe Gazzeri objected that a mechanical device could never make a sound similar to the human voice, as the material of which the human phonation system is made and the materials of which a mechanical device is made are intrinsically different.

Majeri himself replied to Gazzeri's objection by explaining that sound is described by three factors, namely tone, intensity and timbre. The tone depends on the sound's frequency, the intensity is the "strength" of a sound, while the timbre depends on the material of the "sounding body" (). Different sounds such as a double bass and a bell may have the same tone and intensity, but they are often perceived as different sounds. The difference is given by the timbre. Since intensity and tone but not timbre are meaningful and employed in acting schools, Gazzocchi's objection, according to Majocchi, is unreasonable "by itself".

Example of use
An example of the use of the tonograph is provided by Cagnazzi himself. The syllables of each word and each sentence of a text to are pronounced slowly enough, so as to imitate the voice with the device. Once the sound of the voice seems closest to the human voice of the syllable, the corresponding value on the scale is transcribed below the syllable. At a lower level, the number of bellows pressures carried out for each word is also added. The "measurement" of the voice requires a lot of diligence and a certain number of attempts before reaching a precise measurement.

Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi provides an example of the use of the tonograph based on a notable verse by Ennius (Andromache):

From the example above, it's clear that the purpose of the device is to help store the features of human voice, its tones and music. Cagnazzi himself shaped his experiment based on the information provided by Cicero on how the above verse was pronounced in the classical era.

Cagnazzi faces the impossibility (with some exceptions) of faithfully reconstructing the tones and inflections of the voice that the Ancient Greeks and the Romans used in their survived works. The same inventor, in the first part of his essay Tonografia escogitata (1841) made some acute observations on both linguistics and music; he also explained, in the preface, the purpose of his work as well as of his invention:

Previous attempts
According to what reported by its inventor, there had been some previous attempts to faithfully transcribe the tones of acting. Some attempts had been carried out by the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres of Paris. Its perpetual secretary Charles Pinot Duclos wrote that abbot Jean-Baptiste Dubos proposed to create a group of experts in the field of music, in order to identify and distinguish fractions of the human voice's diatonic scale.

Nevertheless, the Académie didn't succeed in the above purpose, since human ears (even the ears of the most skilled people) basically can't go beyond a certain level of precision without a proper device. The failure led the Académie to jump to the conclusion that distinguishing between fractions of the diatonic scale was simply impossible, and alternative methods, based on science and mathematics, weren't taken into account. Cagnazzi compared the Académie to the fox in Phaedrus's fable, who said that the grapes were unripe since he couldn't reach it.

See also
 Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi
 Declamation
 Acoustics
 Physics

References

Bibliography

External links
 LombardiaBeniCulturali - Tonografo
 Strumentidellascienza.edu
 Fonografo di Luca De Samuele Cagnazzi

Musical instruments
Linguistics
Acoustics
History of physics


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With more hot weather to come, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air Day for Tuesday (Sept. 20).
With more hot weather to come, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued a Spare the Air Day for today (Tuesday, Sept. 20) -- the second this week.
District officials are encouraging people to take public transit and to reduce their energy use.
"We are again forecasting unhealthy concentrations of smog," district executive officer Jack Broadbent said. "With temperatures continuing to run high, it's more important than ever that residents drive less, take public transportation, reduce energy use and do their part to minimize pollution."
Motor vehicle exhaust, gasoline vapors, industrial emissions and household chemicals contain volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides that can combine with oxygen. When in the presence of heat and sunlight, it can create ground-level ozone.
Long-term exposure to ozone can reduce lung function and high levels of ozone are particularly harmful to children, seniors and those with heart and respiratory conditions, district officials said. Today will be the second consecutive Spare the Air Day this week and the sixth for 2011.
The air pollution district announces these Spare The Air days around noon the day before. I wish the media would pass along the information the same day so that commuters can make their plans for the next day. When the media waits until the next morning to make the announcement, then no one is going to do anything about it.


The Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST, president Myung-Chul Lee), which is an institute for scholars in the field of science and technology, announced on the 2nd that emeritus professor of SNU Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Min-Koo Han(Fellow) will become its next president.
KAST held its '2018 Biannual Meeting' at the L-Tower in Yangjae-Dong, Seoul, on the 30th of last month and appointed Doctor Han as the 9th president. Doctor Han was chosen by 485 fellow members of KAST at the election in June~July.
While Doctor Han was a professor at the State University of New York, he pioneered research in 'Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistor' and 'Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Solar Cell', making him a first-generation researcher in this field. He is a distinguished scholar of research and development in Thin Film Transistors(TFT) known to be the core technology in flat panel display.
He received several awards including Order of Science and Technology Merit of Changjo(Creation) in 2007 and Korea Best Scientist Award in 2010. He also served as president at the Committee of Deans of Korea's College of Engineering, committee member at the National Science and Technology Commission, and president at the Committee on Green Growth under Ministry of Knowledge Economy.
The term of office will be for three years starting from next year March. The retirement and inauguration ceremony for the 8th and 9th president will be held in February 28th of 2019 at the auditorium in the KAST building.


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Clarissa és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat de Minnesota. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 609 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, Clarissa tenia 609 habitants, 256 habitatges, i 142 famílies. La densitat de població era de 237,5 habitants per km².

Dels 256 habitatges en un 19,9% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 46,1% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 6,6% dones solteres, i en un 44,5% no eren unitats familiars. En el 40,6% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 27,3% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,04 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 2,77.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 17,1% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 6,1% entre 18 i 24, un 17,9% entre 25 i 44, un 21,8% de 45 a 60 i un 37,1% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 52 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 70 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 25.125 $ i la renda mediana per família de 38.553 $. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 27.500 $ mentre que les dones 17.000 $. La renda per capita de la població era de 14.913 $. Entorn del 3,6% de les famílies i el 8,3% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població de Minnesota


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Only God can effectively supervise Nigeria, Niger border — Buhari
See A Pig That Gave Birth to a Human Piglet, which has a Shape of a Human and a Pig (Photos below)
See Reply Of Tiwa Savage Ex-husband After Fans Told Him To Go And Shave His Armpit (Details below)
Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said that only God can effectively supervise the 1,400 kilometers border between Nigeria and Republic of Niger.
President Buhari also pledged that Nigeria would give robust support to Niger Republic in its forthcoming presidential and national assembly elections..
The President, who stated this while receiving in audience former Vice President Namadi Sambo, who heads ECOWAS Election Mission to the West African country at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, applauded President Mahamadou Issoufou, for not attempting to tamper with the Constitution of his country, and elongate his stay in power, after serving for the maximum two terms.
President Buhari in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina said, "I come from Daura, few kilometers to Republic of Niger, so I should know a bit about that country. The President is quite decent, and we are regularly in touch. He is sticking to the maximum term prescribed by the Constitution of his country.
"Also, we share more than 1,400 kilometers of border with that country, which can only be effectively supervised by God. I will speak with the President and offer his country our support. We need to do all we can to help stabilize the Sahel region, which is also in our own interest."
Former Vice President Sambo congratulated President Buhari on the successful return of abducted schoolboys from Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, in Katsina State, and also his 78th birthday, last week.
He pledged that ECOWAS would ensure peaceful and fair elections in Republic of Niger, despite current political, legal and security issues, adding that meetings were already being held with the relevant stakeholders.
READ ALSO See What Ganduje Was Seen Doing Amid Bribery Scandal (Photos)
Buhari meets Jonathan, Sambo in Aso Rock
SO SAD: Mother Of Five Commits Suicide Because She Can't Take Care Of Her Children (Details below)

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Disaster struck during our last trip. After visiting the Orange River Mouth near Alexander Bay in South Africa and Oranjemund in Namibia, we were on our way to visit the remaining Ramsar wetlands in KwaZulu-Natal as well as Lesotho. We stayed over one night in Pretoria when our journey came to an abrupt end.
Our vehicle with all our camping equipment, food, drinks, cameras, binoculars, passports, personal documents etc were stolen on the morning of 7 November 2015. This is the reality of organised crime in Southern Africa. Years of planning, preparation, and procuring of items for this project were gone in an instant.
We had no choice but to return to Cape Town to regroup and start over again. Although it is painful with a lot of hatred and revenge ideas, we will not that this incident affect our project in a negative way.
It will take a while, but we hope to continue early in 2016 and complete our visits to the last Ramsar wetlands in South Africa. After that we will move onto the Ramsar wetlands in neighboring countries.
This is a picture of the stolen vehicle shortly before the incident.


"Trustee" means a person who is trustee of a trust under which funds forming part of the plan funds of any funeral plan provided by an Applicant or a Registered Provider are held and "trust" shall be construed accordingly.
1.2.2 Words in the singular include the plural and vice versa.
shall, for the purpose of the Rules, be taken as the acts or omissions of the Registered Provider.
1.4.1.3 In the case of the Authority, at or to the address of the Authority's place of business or to its e-mail address.
1.4.2 Where a document is served by post and is proved to have been posted it shall be presumed to have been served 4 days from the date of posting.
1.4.3 Where a document is served by leaving, it shall be presumed to have been served on the date on which it was left.
These Rules are governed by, and shall be construed in accordance with, English law.
2.1.5 Any other prescribed information.
are fit and proper persons who will comply with the Rules. In assessing the fitness and propriety of any person the matters which the Authority will take into account include but are not limited to the Applicant's continuing obligation to meet the requirements of the RAO so far as they relate to the provision of funeral plan contracts.
and, subject to any appeal under Rule 2.6, the decision of the Compliance Committee shall be final and binding on the Applicant and the Authority.
If the Compliance Committee refuses an application or grants it subject to conditions, the Authority must send a Registration Decision Notice to the Applicant which sets out the Compliance Committee's decision and the reasons for it and informs the Applicant of the right of appeal.
2.6.1 An Applicant who has been refused registration or granted registration subject to conditions may serve a Registration Appeal Notice on the Authority within 28 days of the Authority serving a Registration Decision Notice on the Applicant.
2.6.2 A Registration Appeal Notice must be accompanied by any prescribed sum as an initial contribution towards the costs of the appeal and that sum may, in the discretion of the Registration Appeal Tribunal, be returned to the Applicant on the determination of the appeal.
2.6.3 If a Registration Appeal Notice, accompanied by any prescribed sum, is not served within the time provided in Rule 2.6.1 the Compliance Committee's decision shall be regarded as final and binding.
2.6.4 Any Registration Appeal Notice must set out the grounds of appeal and must contain a brief statement of all matters relied upon by the Applicant.
2.6.5 The Authority may serve a Response on the Applicant admitting or denying any or all of the matters relied upon by the Applicant in the Registration Appeal Notice and setting out any new matters which the Authority intends to put before the Registration Appeal Tribunal but which were unavailable or otherwise could not be put before the Compliance Committee.
2.6.6 Where a Response includes new matters in accordance with Rule 2.6.5 the Applicant may, within 14 days of service of the Response, serve a Supplementary Registration Appeal Notice on the Authority setting out the Applicant's submissions on any of the new matters in the Response.
2.7.1 The Registration Appeal Tribunal shall be appointed by the Authority and shall comprise a chairman who is a legally qualified Independent Person and two other persons, one of whom shall be an Independent Person.
2.7.2 No person shall serve on a Registration Appeal Tribunal if he has a direct personal or financial interest in the case or has been involved in any preliminary consideration of that case.
2.8.1 Registration Appeal Tribunal hearings shall be in private.
2.8.3 The Registration Appeal Tribunal shall not be bound by any enactment or rule of law relating to the admissibility of evidence in proceedings before any court of law.
2.8.4 At a hearing before the Registration Appeal Tribunal an Applicant may be legally represented and, where the Applicant is not an individual, may be represented by one of its officers.
2.8.5 The Registration Appeal Tribunal shall announce its decision to the parties as soon as practicable and, within 28 days of doing so, shall serve a Registration Appeal Decision on the parties setting out the reasons for its decision.
2.8.6 The Registration Appeal Tribunal may allow or dismiss an appeal and, in allowing an appeal, may impose such conditions as it thinks fit or vary any condition imposed by the Compliance Committee.
2.8.7 The decision of the Registration Appeal Tribunal shall be final and binding upon the Applicant and the Authority.
2.9.1 If the Compliance Committee (or, on appeal, the Registration Appeal Tribunal) grants an application for registration, the Authority shall inform the Applicant of the decision and the Applicant shall be admitted as a Registered Provider subject to the Rules for such period as the Compliance Committee or the Registration Appeal Tribunal (as the case may be) may determine.
2.9.2 Where registration is made subject to any conditions, the Registered Provider shall comply with those conditions during the continuance of registration and the breach of any such condition by a Registered Provider shall constitute misconduct.
2.10.1 A Registered Provider must pay any fee, subscription, charge, levy or other sum within 21 days of it becoming due to the Authority and the Compliance Committee may terminate registration if a Registered Provider fails to make payments in accordance with this Rule.
2.10.2 Registered Providers will provide within a reasonable time such statistics as the Authority may request. Such statistics shall be provided to the Chief Executive who will ensure that the security of individual Registered Providers statistics is maintained and use the statistics either for the determination of fees or for consolidation into statistics in respect of all Registered Providers.
A Registered Provider must by the prescribed date complete and send to the Authority information in the prescribed form and the Compliance Committee may terminate registration if within 28 days of the prescribed date a Registered Provider fails to comply with this Rule.
A Registered Provider may withdraw from registration by the Authority by giving not less than 60 days written notice or such shorter notice as the Authority may approve and the notice must be accompanied by such information concerning the circumstances of withdrawal as, in the opinion of the Authority, is necessary for it to determine whether any measures are necessary to protect the clients of that Registered Provider at the time the withdrawal will take effect. A Registered Provider that for any reason ceases to be registered shall not be entitled to the refund of any subscriptions or other payments made to the Authority.
The Authority shall issue a Code of Practice and shall have the power to vary, amend or revoke any such Code of Practice as it sees fit.
3.2.5 Shall recognise that conformity with the Rules and Code of Practice does not absolve the Registered Provider from the need to ensure that it satisfies any other requirements imposed by law and continues to do so.
A breach of the Code of Practice shall be regarded as misconduct and may be dealt with accordingly.
4.1.3 Where the report of an actuary produced under Rule 4.3.10.2 shows that there is a shortfall or deficiency in the value of the assets of the trust below the value of its liabilities, the Trustees will provide the Compliance Committee with their detailed response to any recommendation made by the actuary as soon as reasonably practicable but not exceeding 60 days after the signing of the report by the actuary and including a statement as to the action to be taken to make good any shortfall or deficiency in the value of the assets of the trust below the value of its liabilities.
The Compliance Committee shall satisfy itself that if the sums paid by the client are applied towards a contract of whole life assurance the contract is effected and carried out by an authorised person who has permission to effect and carry out such contracts of insurance.
(d) in the event of the insolvency of either the Registered Provider or the trust fund, any liquidator/administrator or other person who may be appointed as a consequence of the insolvency has no claim against the trust fund or its assets for purposes other than the delivery of the clients' funerals.
The requirements of this Rule shall be deemed to have been satisfied if the majority of trustees in favour of the decision shall be unconnected Trustees.
4.3.10.4 Also that if it is not reasonably practical to comply with the 9 month requirement in either 4.3.10.1 or 4.3.10.2 the Compliance Committee may, at its discretion, specify the date by which the audited accounts or actuarial valuation (as the case may be) shall be provided.
4.3.11 The trust and Trustees are covered by insurance against loss of plan funds as a consequence of fraud or negligence and the Trustees have confirmed the adequacy of such insurance.
4.3.12 The terms of the trust make adequate provision for the administration of plan funds in the event that the Registered Provider becomes insolvent or ceases trading.
4.4.1 Subject to Rule 4.4.2 and 4.4.3, in the application of the Rules to any particular application to become a Registered Provider the Compliance Committee may, in its discretion, waive or vary any Rule for such time and subject to such conditions as it considers appropriate.
4.4.2.2 The Compliance Committee is satisfied that the arrangements which the Applicant has, or by complying with any condition imposed by the Compliance Committee will have, for the security of plan funds provide a level of protection for consumers substantially similar to that required by Rule 4.3.
4.4.3 Nothing in Rule 4.4.1 shall authorise the Compliance Committee to waive or vary any Rule to the extent that it would permit an Applicant in breach of an obligation under Articles 60 (1) (a) or (b) or 60 (2) of the RAO to be registered as a Registered Provider.
4.6.1 A Registered Provider must provide to the Authority annually a report detailing how the Registered Provider accounts for outstanding funeral plans.
4.6.2 A Registered Provider must inform the Authority within 14 days of the end of every quarter the number and total value of funeral plans sold and the number of funeral plans fulfilled and the number of plans outstanding at the end of the preceding quarter.
4.6.3.2 Within 14 days of the trustees of such Registered Provider receiving an actuarial valuation the trustees must provide the Authority with a certificate of assets and liabilities specified in such actuarial valuation.
4.6.4 A Registered Provider must inform the Authority within 14 days of it receiving an actuarial valuation reporting a shortfall of assets available to meet its liability to provide funerals for outstanding funeral plans and within 14 days thereafter inform the Authority of the steps it is taking to eliminate the shortfall.
If a client is dissatisfied with the service he has received from a Registered Provider, the client is expected in the first instance to inform the Registered Provider, at which time the Registered Provider will deal with the complaint in accordance with the Registered Provider's written complaints procedure. The Registered Provider must reply to a client in writing within seven working days of receiving a complaint.
5.2.7 The Registered Provider shall not refuse to allow a complaint to be considered elsewhere if the client so chooses.
6.1.2 The conduct of Registered Providers to ensure that they remain fit and proper persons.
6.2.4 Require the production by a Registered Provider or an employee, agent or representative of the Registered Provider, of documents and records where information is held other than in legible form, to require the production of that information as a legible document or record.
Nothing in Rule 6.2 shall require the production by a Registered Provider or an employee, agent or representative of the Registered Provider of a document or record or the provision of any information which is the subject of legal professional privilege.
6.4.1 The Authority and members of the Compliance Committee shall treat as confidential any information which they obtain under the Rules and which relates to the affairs of an individual or particular business entity and shall not disclose or use such information without the consent of the person or business entity concerned.
6.4.2.4 At the request of the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority when exercising their powers under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the Competition & Markets Authority or a Government Department when exercising a statutory function.
Where the Compliance Committee commences an investigation it must serve on the Registered Provider concerned an Investigation Notice which states that an investigation has been commenced and contains a brief description of the matter under investigation. Following the service of an Investigation Notice, the Compliance Committee may require a Registered Provider to appear before it at a specified date, time and place to answer questions and explain any matter which the Compliance Committee consider relevant to the investigation. The Compliance Committee shall send copies of any Investigation Notice to the directors of the Authority.
6.7.1.3 The action which the Compliance Committee requires the Registered Provider to take to meet the requirement of fitness and propriety or to remedy or avoid the failure to comply and the date and time at or by which action must be taken.
6.7.2 A Registered Provider may within 14 days of service of a Direction make representations to the Compliance Committee to vary or revoke the terms of the Direction and the Compliance Committee shall consider any representations made and may confirm, vary or revoke the Direction.
6.7.3 The Compliance Committee may at any time vary or revoke a Direction by written notice to the Registered Provider.
6.7.4 A Registered Provider on whom a Direction has been served shall not without reasonable excuse act in breach of it and the burden of proving such reasonable excuse shall be on the Registered Provider.
6.8.1.2 That, in consequence, it is necessary for the protection of consumers to do so; the Compliance Committee may suspend the registration of that Registered Provider.
6.8.2.3 The time and date from which suspension will take effect and the period (if any) for which it will operate.
6.8.3.2 If the registered provider so chooses, apply for the operation of the Suspension Notice to be stayed pending the outcome of that appeal.
6.8.4 An application to stay the operation of a Suspension Notice shall be made to the chairman of the Disciplinary Panel and the Authority shall make arrangements for such applications to be heard promptly and in any event within 48 hours of a Suspension Notice coming into operation.
6.9.1 If it appears to the Chairman of the Compliance Committee that urgent action needs to be taken in respect of any matter relating to a Registered Provider, he shall be authorised to exercise such powers of the Compliance Committee as he considers appropriate.
6.9.2 Where the Chairman of the Compliance Committee takes any action in accordance with Rule 6.9.1 he shall give written notice to the other members of the Compliance Committee within 24 hours of doing so and at the same time shall give notice of a meeting of the Compliance Committee (which shall be held within 7 days of the date of that notice) at which the other members of the Compliance Committee may receive a full report from the Chairman and, if appropriate, ratify the action he has taken.
give written notice to the Directors of the Authority so that they are aware of the action taken and can decide whether it is appropriate to commence disciplinary proceedings against the Registered Provider concerned.
7.1.1.2 Has ceased to be a fit and proper person; and in these Rules "misconduct" means a breach of the Rules or Code of Practice, breach of any condition of registration, failure to comply with a Direction or the provision to the Authority of information (including information for the purposes of obtaining registration) which is false, misleading or inaccurate in a material particular.
7.1.2 A Registered Provider has a continuing obligation to be able to satisfy the Authority that it is and remains fit and proper.
7.1.3 Where the Authority decides to institute disciplinary proceedings it shall serve a Disciplinary Notice on the Registered Provider concerned setting out the acts of misconduct or reasons why the Registered Provider has ceased to be fit and proper together with a summary of the facts relied upon.
7.1.4 The Registered Provider may, within 28 days from service of a Disciplinary Notice, serve on the Authority a Defence responding to all or any of the allegations in the Disciplinary Notice and giving reasons and if within that period the Registered Provider has not served a Defence the Disciplinary Notice shall be deemed to be accepted by that Registered Provider.
7.2.1 The Disciplinary Panel shall be appointed by the Authority and shall comprise a chairman who is a legally qualified Independent Person and two other persons, one of whom shall be an Independent Person.
7.2.2 No person shall serve on an Disciplinary Panel if he has a direct personal or financial interest in the case or has been involved in any preliminary consideration of that case.
7.3.1 Disciplinary Panel hearings shall be in private.
(6) the Registered Provider addressing the panel.
7.3.3 Except where otherwise provided in the Rules, in proceedings before the Disciplinary Panel the burden of proof shall be on the Authority.
7.3.4 The Disciplinary Panel shall not be bound by any enactment or rule of law relating to the admissibility of evidence in proceedings before any court of law.
7.3.5 At a hearing before the Disciplinary Panel a Registered Provider may be legally represented and, where the Registered Provider is not an individual, may be represented by one of its officers.
7.4.1 Within 28 days of announcing its decision the Disciplinary Panel shall serve a Disciplinary Decision on the parties setting out its findings of fact, the reasons for its decision and any penalty to be imposed on the Registered Provider.
7.4.2 The Disciplinary Decision Notice shall inform the parties of their right of appeal.
7.4.3 Where the Disciplinary Panel is satisfied that the Registered Provider has committed an act of misconduct it shall take into account any representations made by the parties before deciding the penalty to be imposed, whether registration should be terminated or continue subject to conditions and the terms and conditions, compensation and costs to be imposed or ordered.
7.4.4 Where the Disciplinary Panel is satisfied that the Registered Provider is no longer fit and proper it shall take into account any representations made by the parties before deciding whether the termination of registration should be subject to conditions and the terms and conditions, compensation and costs to be imposed or ordered.
7.5.2 Where the Disciplinary Panel is satisfied that a Registered Provider is no longer fit and proper it shall terminate the registration of that Registered Provider.
7.5.3 The Disciplinary Panel may impose such conditions as appropriate and may include a requirement that a Registered Provider takes steps to remedy or avoid a breach of the Rules or a condition on the registration of that Registered Provider.
7.5.4 Unless the Disciplinary Panel determines otherwise, any penalty imposed shall come into effect upon service of the Disciplinary Decision Notice.
7.6.1 The Disciplinary Panel may make an order requiring a Registered Provider to pay compensation to a client where, on an application made by or on behalf of the client, the Disciplinary Panel is satisfied that the client has suffered a quantifiable financial loss as a consequence of the Registered Provider's misconduct.
7.6.2 The amount of compensation to be paid by the Registered Provider shall be such amount (not exceeding £5,000) as the Disciplinary Panel considers appropriate in all the circumstances of the case, having regard to the financial loss sustained.
7.7.1 The Disciplinary Panel may order any party to the proceedings to pay costs and such costs may include but shall not be limited to the remuneration of members of the Disciplinary Panel, administrative costs and costs incurred in the investigation, preparation and presentation of the case.
7.7.2 Costs may be awarded against the Authority but only if, in the opinion of the Disciplinary Panel, the Authority has behaved unreasonably in the commencement or conduct of the proceedings.
A Registered Provider or the Authority may appeal to the Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal against a decision by the Disciplinary Panel or any term or condition set out in a Disciplinary Decision.
7.9.1 A party to a Disciplinary Decision ("the Appellant") may serve a Disciplinary Appeal Notice on the other party ("the Respondent") within 14 days of the service of that Disciplinary Decision.
7.9.2 If a Disciplinary Appeal Notice is not served within the time provided in Rule 7.9.1 the Disciplinary Decision shall be regarded as final and binding on the parties.
7.9.4.5 That the penalty imposed or compensation awarded by the Disciplinary Panel was excessive or, where the Appellant is the Authority, was insufficient.
7.9.5 The Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal shall consider submissions made by the parties but, subject to Rule 7.9.6, shall hear no new evidence.
7.9.6 Where the Appellant is a Registered Provider he may appeal on the ground that fresh evidence is available which he could not by reasonable diligence have adduced before the Disciplinary Panel but, had it been adduced, the Disciplinary Panel could reasonably have come to a different decision.
7.10.1 The Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal shall be appointed by the Authority and shall comprise a chairman who is a legally qualified Independent Person and two other persons, one of whom shall be an Independent Person.
7.10.2 No person shall serve on a Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal if he has a direct personal or financial interest in the case or has been involved in any preliminary consideration of that case.
7.11.1 Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal hearings shall be in private.
(6) the Appellant making closing submissions.
7.11.3 The Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal shall not be bound by any enactment or rule of law relating to the admissibility of evidence in proceedings before any court of law.
7.11.4 At a hearing before the Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal a party may be legally represented and, where the party is not an individual, may be represented by one of its officers.
7.11.5 The Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal shall announce its decision to the parties as soon as practicable and, within 28 days of doing so, shall serve a Registration Appeal Decision on the parties setting out the reasons for its decision.
7.11.6 The Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal may dismiss or allow an appeal, may increase or decrease any penalty imposed or the amount of compensation awarded and, in allowing an appeal, may impose such conditions as it thinks fit or vary any condition imposed by the Disciplinary Panel.
7.11.7 Rule 7.7 relating to costs shall apply to the Disciplinary Appeal tribunal as it applies to the Disciplinary Panel.
7.11.8 The decision of the Disciplinary Appeal Tribunal shall be final and binding upon the parties.
Registered Providers shall co-operate in the delivery of the Authority's "Pledge to Customers" by which, in the event of the insolvency of a Registered Provider, the other Registered Providers will examine ways in which the Authority might assist in arranging delivery of the funerals of customers of the insolvent Registered Provider. The extent of this cooperation will be at the discretion of the individual Registered Providers.


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