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Departmental Titles (Alteration) Act

(CHAPTER 77)

(Original Enactment: Ordinance 10 of 1950)

REVISED EDITION 1985

(30th March 1987)

An Act relating to departmental titles.

[28th March 1950]

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Departmental Titles (Alteration) Act.

Amendment of titles

2. Where in any written law or in any other document whatsoever the title or name of office mentioned in the first column of the Schedule is used, there shall be substituted for that title or name of office the title or name of office mentioned opposite it in the second column of the Schedule.

Power to add to or amend Schedule

3.—(1) The appropriate Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, at any time add to or amend the Schedule.

(2) In this section, “appropriate Minister”, in relation to any title or name of office, means the Minister charged with the responsibility for the department to which the title or name of office relates.

[Act 20/96 wef 12/07/1996 vide S 301/96]