DEPARTMENTAL TITLES

3.23 p.m.

The Minister for Law and National Development (Mr Barker): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the motion* standing in my name on the Order Paper.

*The motion reads as follows:

That this Parliament, pursuant to section 3 of the Departmental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance (Chapter 55), resolves that the Schedule to the said Ordinance be amended by the deletion under the headings of "Old Title or Name of Office" and "New Title or Name of Office" respectively of the items shown in Part I of the following Schedule, and by the addition under the headings of "Old Title or Name of Office" and ~New Title or Name of Office" respectively of the items shown in Part II of the said Schedule:- THE SCHEDULE. Part I. Old Title or name of Office New Title or Name of Office Superintending Pharmacutical Chief Chemist. Chemist Municipal Analyst Chief Chemist and Chief Inspector of Dangerous and Hazardous Materials. Deputy Chief Chemist Deputy Chief Chemist and Deputy Inspector of Dangerous Drugs. Part II. Superintending Pharmaceutical Chief Pharmacist Chemist Deputy Chief Chemist Deputy Chief Chemist and Deputy Chief Inspector of Dangerous Materials.'

Sir, the Departmental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance, (Chapter 55 of the Revised Edition), provides in section 2 for the substitution of new departmental titles or names of offices for titles or names that have been rendered obsolete, and in section 3 for the amendment of the Schedule to that Ordinance by resolution of Parliament for the purpose of giving legislative effect to changes in such titles or names.

The agreement of this House is therefore sought to delete from the Schedule to the Ordinance the three items set out in Part I of the Schedule to the motion now before this House, and to embody in the Schedule to the Ordinance the items shown in Part II of the Schedule to the motion whereupon the obsolete title "Superintending Pharmaceutical Chemist" will be replaced by the current title "Chief Pharmacist", and the title "Deputy Chief Chemist" by the title "Deputy Chief Chemist and Deputy Chief Inspector of Dangerous Materials".

The passing of this motion will mean that wherever in any written law or in any document of whatsoever nature these old titles appear, the new titles will be read instead of the old. This method has been utilised over the years to take legislative cognisance of nomenclatural changes in titles or names of offices that have in fact already taken place.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this Parliament, pursuant to section 3 of the Depar4nental Titles (Alteration) Ordinance (Chapter 55), resolves that the Schedule to the said Ordinance be amended by the deletion under the headings of "Old Title or Name of Office" and "New Title or Name of Office" respectively of the items shown in Part I of the following Schedule, and by the addition under the headings of "Old Title or Name of Office" and "New THE SCHEDULE. Part I. Old Title or name of Office New Title or Name of Office Superintending Pharmacutical Chief Chemist. Chemist Municipal Analyst Chief Chemist and Chief Inspector of Dangerous and Hazardous Materials. Deputy Chief Chemist Deputy Chief Chemist and Deputy Inspector of Dangerous Drugs. Part II. Superintending Pharmaceutical Chief Pharmacist Chemist Deputy Chief Chemist Deputy Chief Chemist and Deputy Chief Inspector of Dangerous Materials.' Title or Name of Office" respectively of the items shown in Part II of the said Schedule : -