Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 1939

Minister without portfolio.

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4.(1) Nothing in the Ministers and Secretaries Acts, 1924 and 1928, or this Act shall render it obligatory for every member of the Government to be a Minister having charge of a Department of State.

(2) A member of the Government who is not a Minister having charge of a Department of State shall be known as a Minister without portfolio.

(3) The Government may, whenever they think proper so to do, assign to any particular Minister without portfolio a specific style or title which shall be judicially and officially noticed.