Subjects Departments Agencies - October 26 2011

GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA
ASSIGNMENT OF
SUBJECTS AND DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES AND OTHER PUBLIC BODIES
26 October 2011

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This document is intended to specify the portfolio assignment of Subjects and Departments to Cabinet Ministers in accordance with Sections 77 and 93 of the Constitution of Jamaica.

77.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, the Governor-General, acting in accordance with the advice of the Prime Minister, may, by directions in writing, charge any Minister who is a member of the House of Representatives, or (except in so far as may be inconsistent with any Ministerial functions under section 67, 115, 116 or 118 of this Constitution) who is a member of the Senate with the responsibility for any subject or any department of government.

93.-(1) Where any Minister has been charged with the responsibility for a subject or department of government, he shall exercise general direction and control over the work relating to that subject and over that department; and, subject as aforesaid and to such direction and control, the aforesaid work and the department shall be under the supervision of a Permanent Secretary appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 126 of this Constitution.

(2) A person may be a Permanent Secretary in respect of more than one department of government.
(3) The office of Financial Secretary is hereby constituted and, for the purposes of this section, he shall be deemed to be a Permanent Secretary.
It should be noted that for the purposes of this document, public bodies and some operational/administrative units are broadly classified as departments. This document is not intended to provide an exhaustive list of all GOJ public entities and governing Acts.

Prepared by the Office of the Cabinet
26 October 2011

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