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Excise (Special Provision)(Amendment) Act (No. 8 of 1994) - Sect 2

Replacement of section 2 of Act No.13 of 1989

2. Section 2 of the Excise (Special Provisions) Act, No. 13 of 1989 (hereinafter referred to as the " principal enactment '') is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :
2.
(1) There may be appointed by name or by office, for the purpose of this Act"
(a) a Director-General of Excise (Special Provisions) (hereinafter referred to as the " Director-General") who shall be in charge of the administration at this Act ;
(b) such number of Directors of Excise, Deputy Directors of Excise, Assistant Directors of Excise, and such other officers, as may be necessary for the implementation of the provisions of this Act; and
(c) such number of administrative: accounting, technical, legal, and clerical officers and other staff, as may be necessary to assist the aforesaid officers.
(2) The Director of Excise, a Deputy Director of Excise, an Assistant Director of Excise, may, subject to the general direction and control of the Director-General, exercise, perform or discharge all or any of the powers, duties or functions conferred or imposed on, or assigned to the Director-General by or under this Act.
(3) Unless there is express provision to the contrary, every excise officer below the rank of an Assistant Director of Excise may, subject to the general direction and control of the Director-General, exercise, perform or discharge, all or any of the powers, duties or functions conferred or imposed on, or assigned to, the Director-General by or under this Act, other than any power, function or duty referred to in sections 5A,8A, 10,12,13,14,16,18, and 27.'.


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