The text of the Constitution assigns to the Premier certain powers, such as the power to assign roles ( s. 25 ) to Parliamentary Secretaries, and to appoint Ministers as acting Ministers ( s. 45 ) for a period of 14 days.

The Cabinet, along with the PM, consists of Secretaries of State from the various government departments, the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the President of the Board of Trade, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Ministers without portfolio.

The First Minister then appoints his Ministers ( now known as Cabinet Secretaries ) and junior Ministers, subject to approval by the Parliament.

For example, Ministers and Secretaries that do not follow the democratically selected decisions of a colony can be removed by a similar vote of a colony.

* The Honourable ( Yang Berhormat )-State Chief Minister's deputies, State Deputies Menteri Besar, Federal and State Ministers and their deputies, Secretaries of State, State Finance Officers, and State Legal Counsels.

( The Cabinet Secretaries of the devolved Scottish Government are Scottish Ministers, unrelated to the U. K.

There are some 100 junior members of the Government who are not members of the Cabinet, including Ministers of State and Parliamentary Under-Secretaries of State ; and unpaid Parliamentary Private Secretaries are in practice apprentice ministers on the payroll vote.

Junior Ministers are also often members of these committees, in addition to Secretaries of State.

* Singapore: Ministers of State and Senior Ministers of State are members of the executive branch of the Government of Singapore, senior in rank to Parliamentary Secretaries and Senior Parliamentary Secretaries, but junior to full Cabinet Ministers.

Ministers of State are responsible to their Secretaries of State.

In June the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 changed his title from Minister for Home Affairs to Minister for Justice.

The Scottish Government is led by the First Minister, who selects all the remaining Cabinet Secretaries and junior Ministers.

He is assisted by various Cabinet Secretaries ( Ministers ) with individual portfolios and remits, who are appointed by him with the approval of Parliament.

Junior Scottish Ministers are similarly appointed to assist Cabinet Secretaries in their work.

The Cabinet Secretaries and junior Ministers are:

Officially established in 1557, this was the largest of the King's Councils made up of France's High Chancellor, lords of peerage, Ministers and Secretaries of State, the Comptroller-General, 30 Councillors of State, 80 masters of requests, and the Intendants of Finance.

The Ministers and Secretaries ( Amendment ) Act, 1939 ( Section 4 ) allows a member of the Government of Ireland not to have charge of a Department of State ; such a person is referred to as a " Minister without portfolio " ().

In the Australian state of Queensland, Parliamentary Secretaries were re-designated as ' Assistant Ministers ' following the 2012 Queensland election.

::: Subject to the limitations laid down in this Constitution Act the King shall have the supreme authority in all the affairs of the Realm, and he shall exercise such supreme authority through the Ministers.

Unequivocal legal recognition was given in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1937, which made provision for paying a salary to the person who is both " the First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister ".

Informally recognised for over a century as a convention of the constitution, the position of Leader of the Opposition was given statutory recognition in 1937 by the Ministers of the Crown Act.

The First Minister, the Ministers ( but not junior ministers ), the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General are the Members of the ' Scottish Executive ', as set out in the Scotland Act 1998.

The 2003 First Ministers ’ Accord on Health Care Renewal reaffirmed their commitment to the principles of the Canada Health Act.

The " Ata do Iguaçu " ( Iguaçu Act ) was signed on July 22, 1966, by the Brazilian and Paraguayan Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Juracy Magalhães and Sapena Pastor, respectively.

The most significant achievement was passage of the Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Act of 2010, approved by the Council of Ministers in January 2010 and ratified by Parliament in June 2010.

Through the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Act 1991 the Scottish Natural Heritage ( SNH ) was established in 1992 as a Government body, responsible to the Scottish Government Ministers and through them to the Scottish Parliament.

In 2004, the Joint Committee ( of both the House of Commons and House of Lords ) tasked with overseeing the drafting of the proposed Civil Contingencies Bill, published its first report, in which, amongst other things, it suggested amending the bill's clauses that grant Cabinet Ministers the power " to disapply or modify any Act of Parliament " as overly wide, and that the bill should be modified to preclude changes to the following Acts, which, it suggested, formed " the fundamental parts of constitutional law " of the United Kingdom ( names are shown as they appear in Hansard: ):

The total number of ministers allowed to be paid as " Cabinet ministers " is limited by the ( Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 ), and this has caused successive Prime Ministers problems, and accounts for some of the unusual regular attendees at Cabinet, who are not paid as Cabinet ministers.

The Civil List Act 1979 describes the funds provided for the Governor-General, Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and Members of Parliament.

The Act also provides for the creation of a ' Scottish Executive ' though one of the early actions of the SNP administration that won power in the 2007 elections was to rebrand the Scottish Executive, as the group of Ministers and their civil servants had been known, as the Scottish Government.

Following the Scotland Act 1998 the Inspectorate was made an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, and HMIe was answerable to the Scottish Ministers for the running of the Inspectorate and the whole inspection system in Scotland.

Finally, the April 3, 1955 Act allows the proclamation, by the Council of Ministers, of the " state of emergency " ( état d ' urgence ).

After visiting Britain for a meeting of First Ministers in May 1917, Borden announced that he would introduce the Military Service Act.

Under the Crown Entities Act, Ministers are required to " oversee and manage " the Crown's interests in the Crown entities within their portfolio ( sections 27 and 88 ).

The National Assembly was established as a body corporate by the Government of Wales Act 1998 and the executive, as a committee of the Assembly, only had those powers that the Assembly as a whole voted to delegate to Ministers.

The Government of Wales Act 2006 formally separated the legislature ( National Assembly for Wales ) and the Welsh Government, giving Welsh Ministers independent executive authority, this taking effect after the May 2007 elections.

Under the structures established by the Government of Wales Act 2006, the role of Welsh Ministers is to make decisions ; develop and implement policy ; exercise executive functions and make statutory instruments.

The new arrangements provided for in the Government of Wales Act 2006 created a formal legal separation between the National Assembly for Wales, the legislature comprising the 60 Assembly members, and the Welsh Government, the executive, comprising the First Minister, Welsh Ministers, Deputy Welsh Ministers and the Counsel General.

The 2006 Act made new provision for the appointment of Welsh Ministers.

The Act permits a maximum of 12 Welsh Ministers, which includes Deputy Welsh Ministers, but excludes the First Minister and the Counsel General.

Section 18 of the constitution which allows for ministers to hold council meetings without the sovereign, a so-called Council of Ministers, is no longer in effect.

Section 106 provides for the appointment of " Acting Ministers " to take over the functions of any minister on an interim basis, in the event of the minister being unable to carry out their duties on account of sickness, absence from Fiji, or any other case.

According to the Article V, Section 4 of the Constitution, the Chair of the Council of Ministers is nominated by the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and confirmed by the National House of Representatives.

) the president becomes the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, Militia of several states when called into service, has power to make treaties and appointments to office -- "... with the Advice and Consent of the Senate "-- receive Ambassadors and Public Ministers, and "... take care that the laws be faithfully executed " ( Section 3.

Section 64 establishes that all Ministers of State ( i. e. Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries ) are members of the Council.

* The Soviet Union's Council of Ministers issued a directive to amend Section 74 of the Soviet Regulations on Communications, providing that " The use of telephonic communications ... for aims contrary to the interest of the State and to public order is forbidden.

According to the 1920 Estonian Constitution, which was enforced by the “ Constitution of the Republic of Estonia, the Referendum Act and the Citizens ’ s Initiative Act Implementation Act “ on July 2, 1920, after being approved by the Constituent Assembly on June 16, 1920 ( Riigi Teataja August 9, 1920 No. 113 / 114 ), the Government of the Republic consisted of the Riigivanem ( Head of State ) and Ministers ( Section 58 ).

The responsibilities of the Head of State were representing the Republic of Estonia, administration and co-ordination of the activities of the Government of the Republic, chairing the Government meetings ; the Head of State had the right to make inquiries about the activities of the Ministers ( Section 62 ).

HIAL receives subsidies from the Scottish Ministers in accordance with Section 34 of the Civil Aviation Act 1982 and is sponsored by the Transport Directorate which is one of the Finance and Sustainable Growth Directorates of the Scottish Government.

Section Four, which is divided into four chapters, outlines the functions of the Belarusian Government, mainly the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Council of Ministers, the Parliament of Belarus and the courts.