Cap. 379 Art. 30Applicability of Act to government departments.

(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-article (2), the provisions of this Act shall also apply to any Government department or to any body corporate established by law or to any company or other partnership in which the Government, directly or indirectly, holds a controlling interest or to which the Government has granted special or exclusive rights in any field:

Provided that article 460(1) of the Code of Organization and Civil Procedure shall not apply to the provisions of this sub-article and to causes instituted by the Director General pursuant to the provisions of this Act against any Government department, authority, agency or any other Government body, where in the opinion of the Director General, the said Government department, authority, agency or any other Government body performs the function of an undertaking as defined under this Act.

(2) Undertakings entrusted with the operation of services of a general economic interest or having the character of a revenue producing monopoly shall be subject to the provisions of this Act insofar as the application of such rules does not obstruct the performance, in law or in fact, of the particular tasks assigned to them.

(3) The Minister may by order in the Gazette declare a specific service entrusted to a particular undertaking to be a service in the general economic interest.