Section 17
Minister or Chief Minister
of Delegation of Powers Act 1956
Where by any written law power is given to a Minister or the Chief Minister of a State to make any regulation or order or give any direction, approval, permission or consent, or where any document is required to be under the hand of, or signed or countersigned by, such
Minister or Chief Minister it shall be sufficient, unless it is otherwise expressed, for such regulation, order, direction, approval, permission, consent or document to be signified under the hand of, or signed or countersigned by, any officer under the administrative control or direction of such Minister or Chief Minister as the case may be and expressly or impliedly authorized by him by name or office in that behalf or in the case of a Minister under the hand of or signed or countersigned by a Deputy Minister.
(2)
A certificate in writing purporting to be under the hand of the
Minister or Chief Minister personally that any person was at the material date an officer under his administrative control or that any
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such officer was expressly or impliedly authorized by him to signify, sign or countersign a certain regulation, order, direction, approval, permission, consent or document shall be conclusive evidence of the facts stated in such certificate.
(3)
Where any such regulation, order, direction, approval, permission, consent or document has been signified, signed or countersigned by any officer not authorized in that behalf the Minister or Chief Minister concerned as the case may be may ratify such signification, signature or countersignature and thereupon the same shall have effect as if at the date on which such signification, signature or countersignature was effected or affixed by such officer he had been duly authorized thereto.