6. Section 47 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows : -
| (a) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of section 47 ; |
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| (b) by the substitution, for the words " to assist the Ministers in the exercise of their Parliamentary and departmental duties : ", of the words " to assist the Ministers in the performance of their Parliamentary and departmental duties and to exercise and perform such powers and duties of the Ministers under written law as may be delegated to the Parliamentary Secretaries under subsection (2) of this section : " ; and |
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| (c) by the addition, at the end of that section, of the following subsection : -
| | " (2) A Minister may, by notification published in the Gazette, delegate to his Parliamentary Secretary any power or duty conferred or imposed on the Minister by any written law, and it shall be lawful for the Parliamentary Secretary to exercise or perform any power or duty delegated to him under this subsection notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the written law by which that power or duty is conferred or imposed on the Minister. ". | | |
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