FIJI ISLANDS

[LEGAL NOTICE No. 6]

GOVERNMENT OF FIJI
(EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY OF FIJI DECREE 2009, Decree No. 2)

Ministerial Assignment

To: Mr Netani Sukanaivalu

IN exercise of the powers vested in me as President and Commander in Chief of the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces by the Executive Authority of Fiji Decree 2009, (Decree No.2), I hereby appoint you the Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources, with effect from the 11th day of April 2009 and assign to you the responsibility for the conduct of the following Government business and departments and for the following written laws (subject to the provisions of any other laws) -

Business 	Departments
	
(a)	Continental Shelf
Explosives
Fiji Land Information System 
Foreshore
Geology
Ground water
Mapping
Mining
Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation
Quarries
Registration of Surveyors
Registration of Valuers
Rivers and Streams
Seismology
State Acquisition of Lands
State Lands
Survey of Lands
	Ministerial of Lands and Mineral Resources

Department of Lands and Surveys
Department of Mineral Resources	
(b)	Responsibility for all written laws regulating the business of (a) above including in particular, the following Acts and the subsidiary legislation made thereunder -
		
	Continental Shelf Act (Cap, 149)
Explosives Act (Cap 189)
Mining Act (Cap 146)
Petroleum (Exploration and Exploitation) Act (Cap, 148)
Quarries Act (Cap, 147)
Rivers and Streams Act (Cap 136)
State Acquisition of Lands Act (Cap 135)
State Lands Act (Cap 132)
Surveyors Act (Cap 260)
Valuers Registration Act 1986

DATED at Suva this 12th day of April 2009.

RATU J. I. ULUIVUDA
President and Commander in Chief
of the Republic of the Fiji Military Forces