Part of Merchant Shipping and Maritime Security Bill [Lords] – in the House of Commons am 6:45 pm ar 17 Mawrth 1997.
'.—In section 137 of the 1995 Act (shipping casualties), after subsection (5), there is inserted the following subsection—
(5A) The Secretary of State shall appoint such persons as he thinks fit to advise or assist him in connection with marine salvage and other matters relating to the exercise and performance of his duties under this section.".'.—[Mr. Ainger.]
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
