REPUBLIC OF FIJI

[LEGAL NOTICE No. 10]

GOVERNMENT OF FIJI
(EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF FIJI DECREE 2009, Decree No. 2)
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Ministerial Assignment

To: Dr Neil Sharma

IN exercise of the powers vested in me as President and Commander in Chief of the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces by the Executive Authority of Fiji Decree 2009, (Decree No.2), I hereby appoint you the Minister for Health, with effect from the 11th day of April 2009 and assign to you the responsibility for the conduct of the following Government business and departments and for the following written laws (subject to the provisions of any other laws) -

Business	Departments	

(a)	
Health
Clinical Medical Services	
Ministry of Health	
	Health Promotion		
	Medical Equipment and Supplies Services	-Divisional Hospitals	
	Pharmaceutical, Drugs and Medicine Services	-Fiji School of Nursing	
	Preventative Health Programme and Services	-Government Pharmacy	
	Primary Health Care Services	-Health Centres and Nursing Stations	
	Professional Staff Development and Management	-National Centre for Communicable	
		-Disease Control	

(b)	Responsibility for all written laws regulating the business of (a) above including in particular, the subsidiary legislation made thereunder -	-National Centre
-National Referral Hospitals (St. Giles & Twomey Hospitals)
-Sub Divisional Hospitals 
	
	Animals (Control of Experiments) Act (Cap. 161)		
	Burial and Cremation Act (Cap. 117)		
	Illicit Drugs Control Act No.9 of 2004		
	Fiji School of Medicine Act 1997		
	Food Safety Act 2003		
	Part 10 of Health and Safety at Work Act 1996		
	Medical and Dental Practitioner Act (Cap.225)		
	Medical Assistant Act (Cap. 225A)		
	Mental Treatment Act (Cap. 113)		
	Methylated Spirits Act (Cap. 193)		
	Nurses, Midwives and Nurse Practitioners Act (256)		
	Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Cap. 115)		
	Private Hospitals Act (Cap. 256A)		
	Public Health Act (Cap. 111)		
	Public Hospitals and Dispensaries Act (Cap. 110)		
	Pure Food Act (Cap. 116)		
	Quarantine Act (Cap. 112)		
	Tobacco Control Act 1998		

DATED at Suva this 12th day of April 2009.

RATU J. I. ULUIVUDA
President and Commander in Chief
of the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces