SOIL AND LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1945 - SECT 7A
SOIL AND LAND CONSERVATION ACT 1945 - SECT 7A
7A . Deputy Commissioner
(1) There shall be
appointed under and subject to Part 3 of the Public Sector Management Act 1994
an officer to be designated “The Deputy Commissioner of Soil and Land
Conservation”.
(2) Where the
Commissioner is unable to act, or where the office of Commissioner is vacant,
the Deputy Commissioner of Soil and Land Conservation shall act in the office
of the Commissioner during that absence or incapacity or until the vacancy is
filled, as the case requires, and while so acting shall —
(a) have
all the powers, functions and authorities; and
(b)
perform and carry out the duties,
of the Commissioner
under this Act.
[Section 7A inserted: No. 40 of 1974 s. 4;
amended: No. 42 of 1982 s. 10; No. 91 of 1990 s. 6; No. 32 of 1994 s. 3(2);
No. 19 of 2022 s. 6.]