REPUBLIC OF FIJI

[LEGAL NOTICE No. 7]

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

To: Dr Jiko Luveni

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 Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation, 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)	
Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Monitoring	
Ministry of Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation	
	Adoption of Infants	-Department of Social Welfare 	
	Care and Protection of Juveniles	-Department of Women	
	Community Corrections	-Poverty Alleviation Unit	
	Disabled Persons		
	Fair Rents		
	Family Welfare and Assistance		
	Marriage Guidance		
	National Women's Plan of Action		
	Poverty Alleviation		
	Probation of Offenders		
	Women and Gender Development		

(b)	
Responsibility for all written laws regulating the business of (a) above including in particular, the subsidiary legislation made thereunder -		
	
Social Welfare, Women and Poverty Alleviation		
	Adoption of Infants Act (Cap.58)		
	Community Work Act 1994		
	Fair Rents Act (Cap.269)		
	Fiji National Council for Disabled Persons Act 1994		
	Juveniles Act (Cap.56)		
	Probation of Offenders Act (Cap. 22)		

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