0 a person employed by a company, whose job is to make sure the company obeys any laws or rules that apply to its work:
Financial services companies must now take steps against money laundering, for example by naming a compliance officer.
1 a person within a company, organization, or government whose job is to make certain that all laws and rules relating to its activities are obeyed:
Nine of the buildings that were examined by the state compliance officer failed a routine inspection.
We shall be relying on an untried consortium and on the untried compliance officer mechanism if things go wrong.
Who will pay the salary of the compliance officer and his staff?
The compliance officer will not only receive information as a result of his own observations and studies but also from within the establishment.
In what way will these matters come under the control and monitoring of the compliance officer?
Not only was he the principal trader; he was acting as the accountant and compliance officer.
It will all be dealt with by the compliance officer under a completely untested, cosy in-house arrangement.
That could happen tomorrow, and we want to know what the compliance officer would do if it did.
A commercial enterprise would probably have a compliance officer, but that may be adding yet another layer of bureaucracy.
