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Water Resources Board Act (No. 29 of 1964) - Sect 14

Inter-Departmental Advisory Committee

14.
(1) There shall be a Committee of persons which shall be called the " Inter-Departmental Advisory Committee to the Water Resources Board", and hereinafter referred to as the " Advisory Committee ", and consisting of the Permanent Secretary, the Head of the Development Division of the Ministry in charge of the subject or function of industries, and the Heads of the following Government Departments: -
(a) Irrigation Department;
(b) Department of Government Electrical Undertakings;
(c) Department of Health;
(d) Department of Local Government;
(e) Geological Survey Department;
(f) Department of Agriculture;
(g) Department of the Land Commissioner;
(h) Survey Department;
(i) Department of Agrarian Services;
(j) Department of National Planning;
(k) Department of Water Supply and Drainage;
(l) Forest Department;
(m) Public Works Department;
(n) Railway Department.
(2) Any Head of a Government Department referred to in subsection (1) may appoint an officer of his Department to represent him at any meeting of the Advisory Committee.
(3) It shall be the function of the Advisory Committee to advise the Board on any or all of the matters set out in section 12.
(4) The Permanent Secretary shall preside at the meetings of the Advisory Committee; in the absence of the Permanent Secretary from any meeting, the members of the Advisory Committee present at that meeting shall elect one of their number to preside at that meeting.
(5) The Advisory Committee shall be summoned to meet as often as the Permanent Secretary considers it necessary. The Permanent Secretary shall not be entitled to vote at any meeting of such Committee.


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