Public Service Rearrangement and Transfer of Duties Act

Marginal note:Duties and powers of minister and department

3 Where under this Act, or under any other lawful authority, any power, duty or function, or the control or supervision of any portion of the public service, is transferred from one minister to another, or from one department or portion of the public service to another, the minister, department or portion of the public service to whom or which the power, duty, function, control or supervision is transferred, and the appropriate officers of that department or portion of the public service, shall, in relation thereto, be substituted for and have and carry out the respective powers and duties that formerly belonged to or were to be carried out by the minister, department or portion of the public service and the respective officers of the department or portion of the public service from whom or which the power, duty, function, control or supervision is so transferred.