Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 4 : President of India Droupadi Murmu has empowered the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh to exercise the powers and functions discharged by the “State Government “and the “Appropriate Government” under two more laws.
The Union Home Ministry has issued two separate notifications to empower LG Ladakh to exercise the powers and functions of the “Appropriate Government” and the “State Government” respectively under “the Minimum Wages Act, 1948” and “the Poisons Act, 1919”.
“In pursuance of clause (1) of article 239 of the Constitution, the President hereby directs that the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh shall, subject to the control of the President and until further orders, exercise the powers and discharge the functions of the appropriate Government under the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (11 of 1948) within the said Union Territory,” read the notification.
Similarly, the powers vested with the appropriate Government under another Central Law have also been delegated to LG Ladakh.
“In pursuance of the powers conferred under clause (1) of Article 239 of the Constitution, the President hereby directs that the powers and functions of the State Government under the Poisons Act, 1919 (12 of 1919) shall, subject to the control of the President and until further orders, be exercised by the Lieutenant Governor of the Union Territory of Ladakh within the said Union Territory,” the notification further stated.
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