Department of Technical Co-operation Act 1961
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Department of Technical Co-operation Act, 1961
(9 & 10 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 30
An Act to provide for the establishment of a Department of Technical Co-operation under the charge of a Minister of the Crown.
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Establishment and functions of Department.
(1) For the purpose of co-ordinating, promoting and carrying out arrangements for furnishing countries outside the United Kingdom with technical assistance, including in particular assistance in the fields of economic development, administration and social services, there shall be established a separate department under the charge of a Minister of the Crown.
(2) The Minister and his department shall be known respectively as the Secretary for Technical Co-operation and the Department of Technical Co-operation.
(3) The powers exercisable by Order in Council under section one of the Ministers of the Crown (Transfer of Functions) Act, 1946 (which enables Her Majesty to transfer functions from one Minister of the Crown to another) shall include power to direct that functions of any Minister of the Crown within the meaning of that Act shall be exercisable by the Secretary for Technical Co-operation concurrently with that Minister, or shall cease to be so exercisable; and any reference in that Act to functions transferred by an Order in Council thereunder shall be construed accordingly.
2 Oath of allegiance and official oath.
2. The Secretary for Technical Co-operation shall take the oath of allegiance and the official oath; and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868, shall have effect as if his name were included in the First Part of the Schedule to that Act.
3 Officers, remuneration and expenses.
(1) The Secretary for Technical Co-operation may appoint such officers and servants as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine.
(2) There shall be paid—
(a ) to the Secretary for Technical Co-operation, an annual salary not exceeding three thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds;
(b ) to any officers and servants appointed by him, such salaries or remuneration as the Treasury may determine;
and for the purposes of section six of the Ministers of the Crown Act,...
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