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Allocation of functions to the Department of Supplies.
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3.—(1) Whenever the Government are of opinion that any function in relation to one or more of the matters mentioned in sub-section (2) of the next preceding section ought in the public interest to be entrusted to the Minister for Supplies, the Government may, by order or by such other means as they think proper, allocate the administration and business in respect of that function to the Department of Supplies, and may by order or other means aforesaid terminate such allocation if and when they are of opinion that it is expedient in the public interest so to do.
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(2) Whenever the administration and business of a function allocated under this Act to the Department of Supplies would, but for such allocation, be included in the public services comprised in another Department of State, the administration and business in respect of that function shall, to the extent of such allocation and so long as it continues, cease to be included in the public services comprised in such other Department of State.
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