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MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS ACT 1969
(Act 2)
An Act to make provisions for declaring the functions and the transfer of functions of
Ministers, for declaring the styles and titles of Ministers, and for incidental and
connected purposes.
[Date of commencement: 27.2.1969]
1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the Ministerial Functions Act 1969.
2. Functions, styles and titles of Ministers
(1) The Yang di-Pertuan Agong may by order notify in the Gazette-
(a) that a Minister has been conferred with any functions or has been charged with
any responsibility in respect of a particular department or subject or that any
transfer, to any other Minister, of any of the functions or responsibility referred to
has been made;
(b) that any style or title has been assigned to any Minister (except the Prime Minister)
or that any change in any style and title referred to has been made.
(2) An order made by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under this section -
(a) may provide for the transfer of any property, rights or liabilities held, enjoyed or
incurred by any Minister in connection with any functions conferred or transferred;
and
(b) may contain such other provisions as may be necessary or expedient for the
purpose of giving effect to the order.
3. Effect of transfer of functions and change of style and title
Where an order is made by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong under section 2 anything
commenced, or done before the order the order came into force by or under the authority of the
Minister whose functions and responsibility have been transferred or whose style or title is
changed may be continued or completed by the Minister.
4. Reference in written laws
Any reference in any written law or in any instrument, contract or legal proceedings to any
Minister as such by the style or title of his office shall unless the context otherwise requires, be
construed as a reference to the Minister for the time being conferred with the functions or
changed with the responsibility or to the Minister for the time being assigned with such style or
title.
5. Repeal and saving
The Ministers of the Federal Government (Transfer of Functions) Ordinance, 1951, is hereby
repealed:
Provided that orders made under that Ordinance or any other written law relating to the
transfer of functions of a Minister or public officer which were in force immediately before the
commencement of this Act shall be deemed to have been made under this Act and shall remain
in force, and may be amended or revoked, accordingly.
