Head of a Department definition

Head of a Department means the incumbent of a post mentioned in Column 2 of Schedule 1, 2 or 3 to the Public Service Act, 1994, and includes any employee acting in such post; and
Head of a Department means any authority declared to be such for purposes of delegations and exercise of administrative and financial powers as in Appendix 8 of these rules;
Head of a Department means any authority whom the President may, by order, declare to be the Head of a department for the purpose of these rules;

Examples of Head of a Department in a sentence

  • The Director/Agency Head of a Department employing persons within the bargaining unit or his/her designee.

  • For purpose of Section 29 (2) (ii) of the Act, ten Heads of Departments in colleges teaching the subjects at the special, principal, or major level, shall be elected from amongst themselves.For the purpose of election, the Head of a Department in a College shall be one who is designated to be the Head of the Department by the College and one who has taught the subject at the Degree level for a period of at least five years.

  • It is not possible to enumerate all situations that constitute a conflict of interest.

  • The Project Leader from the Member State must be a high-ranking public servant or equivalent staff, but preferably the Head of a Department engaged in the issues of external audit within a Member State SAI administration, with relevant working experience of at least 3 years.

  • A case of withdrawal by the Head of a Department or a case necessitating the relaxation of any of the terms and conditions shall be referred to Government in the Finance Department.


More Definitions of Head of a Department

Head of a Department means an authority specified in Schedule IV to the Delegation of Financial Powers Rules, 1981 and includes such other authority or persons whom the Governor may, by order, specify as Head of a Department.
Head of a Department means the head of the department designated under subsections (2) and (3) of section 28 of the Act and departmental head has the same meaning;
Head of a Department means the head of the department designated under subsections (2) and
Head of a Department means any authority specially ordered by the Government to be the Head of a Department (vide Appendix 1).
Head of a Department or “Head of the department” means the incumbent of a post mentioned in Column 2 of Schedule 1, 2 or 3 of the Public Service Act and includes any employee that acts in such post;
Head of a Department or ‘head of the department’ means the incumbent of a post mentioned in the second column of Schedule 1 or 2, and includes any officer acting in such post;…”
Head of a Department ordinarily means the head of some government division that is important enough to have a deputy. The Minnesota Supreme Court has held that, while cases may arise in which a department has only one employee, who thereupon would be the head of the department, “we believe that ordinarily, before anyone could be classified as a head of a department, the department must be sufficiently important as to include more than one employee.”[37]