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Power of Minister to delegate powers and functions

44. It shall be lawful for the Minister by order under his hand
to delegate to any fit and proper officer authority to exercise
(subject to any limitations which may in such order be specified)
any of the powers and functions vested in the Minister by this Act
and thereupon such officer shall, to the extent of such delegation,
be deemed to be empowered and authorized to exercise such powers
and functions accordingly. The Minister may under this section
delegate the same powers and functions to more than one officer
and different powers and functions to different officers.

Power of Minister to exempt certain drugs and institutions
from certain provisions of the Act

45. The Minister may, by order or by regulations made under
this Act, exempt from any of the provisions of this Act or the
regulations made thereunder:
(a) dangerous drugs in respect of which—
(i) the Secretary General of the United Nations
Organization shall have communicated to the parties
to the Single Convention under article 3 of the
said Convention a decision of the Commission; or

(ii) the Minister shall have decided that such dangerous
drugs cannot give rise to the drug habit on account
of the medicaments with which the said dangerous
drugs are compounded; or

(b) any hospital, infirmary, dispensary wholly or mainly
maintained by a public authority out of public funds or
such like institutions as he may approve from time to
time.

Power of the Minister to vary First Schedule

45A. If—
(a) it appears to the Minister that a decision of the Commission
or of the United Nations Organization to alter any of the
Schedules to the Single Convention or to apply to a
substance, measures of control applicable under that
Convention to substances specified in Schedule 1 thereto,
requires the addition of a substance to the First Schedule;
or