Ministry of Fuel and Power Act 1945
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Ministry of Fuel and Power Act, 1945
(8 & 9 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 19.
An Act to make further provision with respect to the appointment and functions of the Minister of Fuel and Power, and for purposes connected therewith.
[25th April 1945]
Be it enacted by the King'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 Appointment and functions of the Minister of Fuel and Power.
(1) It shall be lawful for His Majesty to appoint a Minister of Fuel and Power (in this Act referred to as ‘the Minister’) who shall be charged with the general duty of securing the effective and co-ordinated development of coal, petroleum and other minerals and sources of fuel and power in Great Britain, of maintaining and improving the safety, health and welfare of persons employed in or about mines and quarries therein, and of promoting economy and efficiency in the supply, distribution, use and consumption of fuel and power, whether produced in Great Britain or not.
(2) The functions specified in the First Schedule to this Act (being functions transferred to the Minister of Fuel and Power by the Ministers of the Crown (Minister of Fuel and Power) Order, 1942, made by His Majesty in Council under the Ministers of the Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act, 1939) , and all other functions conferred or imposed on that Minister by virtue of any enactment, regulation, order or other instrument passed or made before the commencement of this Act, shall be functions of the Minister appointed under this Act, and the said Order in Council (including the consequential provisions incorporated therewith) shall continue in force by virtue of this Act with respect to the functions thereby transferred notwithstanding the repeal of the Ministers of the Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act, 1939, or the expiration of any Order in Council (whether made under that Act or under the Emergency Power (Defence) Acts, 1939 and 1940) by which those functions were previously transferred.
(3) Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing subsection, the Ministers of the Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act, 1939, shall, as from the date upon which a Minister is first appointed under this Act, cease to apply to the Minister of Fuel and Power.
2 Oath of allegiance and official oath.
2. The Minister shall take the oath of allegiance and the official oath, and the Promissory Oaths Act, 1868,shall have effect as if the name of the Minister were included in the first Part of the Schedule to that Act.
3 Appointment of officers, remuneration and expenses.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Minister may appoint a Parliamentary Secretary and such other secretaries, officers and servants as he may, with the consent of the Treasury, determine.
(2) There shall be paid—
(a ) to the Minister, an annual salary not exceeding five thousand pounds;
(b ) to the Parliamentary Secretary appointed by the Minister, and to any other secretaries, officers and servants appointed by the Minister, such salaries or remuneration as the Treasury may determine,
and for the purposes of section six of the Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937 (which makes provision against duplicate salaries), any salary payable under this subsection to the Minister or to the Parliamentary Secretary appointed by him shall be deemed to be a salary payable under that Act.
(3) The salary of the Minister and his expenses (including any salaries or remuneration payable under paragraph (b ) of the last foregoing subsection) shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
(4) Until the date upon which the repeal of the Ministers of the Crown (Emergency Appointments) Act, 1939, takes effect under section three of the Ministers of Crown and House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1942, two persons may hold office together as Parliamentary Secretaries to the Ministry of Fuel and Power, and accordingly the foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect, until that date, as if in subsection (1) for the words ‘a Parliamentary Secretary’ there were substituted the words ‘not more than two Parliamentary Secretaries,’ and as if in subsection (2) for the words ‘the Parliamentary Secretary,’ in both places where those words occur, there were substituted the words ‘any Parliamentary Secretary’.
4 Capacity to sit in House of Commons.
4. A person holding office as Minister of Fuel and Power, or as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, shall not thereby be rendered incapable of being elected as a member of the Commons House of Parliament, or of sitting or voting as such a member.
5 Seal, style and acts of Minister.
(1) The Minister shall for all purposes be a corporation sole, and shall have an official seal, which shall be authenticated by the signature of the...
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