Section 4 - Administrative Arrangements Act 1990 - Administrative arrangements

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4 Administrative arrangements

[Section 4 Subsection (1) substituted by No. 39 of 1995, s. 5 ]

(1) The Governor, by order, may provide for –

(a) the assignment to a Minister or Ministers of the administration of all or any of the following:

(i) a department;

(ii) part of a department;

(iii) an enactment;

(iv) a class of enactments either generally or in specified respects;

(v) part of an enactment;

(vi) part of the subject matter of an enactment; and

(b) the specification of the department or part of the department responsible to a Minister or Ministers in relation to the administration of all or any of the following:

(i) an enactment;

(ii) a class of enactments, either generally or in specified respects;

(iii) part of an enactment;

(iv) part of the subject matter of an enactment.

(2) Until provision is made in relation to an Act by order under subsection (1) –

(a) the administration of that Act is assigned to the Minister for the time being administering this Act; and

(b) the department responsible to that Minister in relation to the administration of that Act is the department responsible to that Minister in relation to the administration of this Act.

(3) An instrument of a legislative character made under a provision of an Act shall, unless provision to the contrary is made in an order under subsection (1) or the contrary intention otherwise appears, be taken to be subject to the same administration as the provision under which it is made.