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Power of Minister to delegate powers and functions 44. It shall be lawful for the Minister by order under his hand to delegate to any fit and proper officer authority to exercise (subject to any limitations which may in such order be specified) any of the powers and functions vested in the Minister by this Act and thereupon such officer shall, to the extent of such delegation, be deemed to be empowered and authorized to exercise such powers and functions accordingly. The Minister may under this section delegate the same powers and functions to more than one officer and different powers and functions to different officers. Power of Minister to exempt certain drugs and institutions from certain provisions of the Act 45. The Minister may, by order or by regulations made under this Act, exempt from any of the provisions of this Act or the regulations made thereunder: (a) dangerous drugs in respect of which— (i) the Secretary General of the United Nations Organization shall have communicated to the parties to the Single Convention under article 3 of the said Convention a decision of the Commission; or (ii) the Minister shall have decided that such dangerous drugs cannot give rise to the drug habit on account of the medicaments with which the said dangerous drugs are compounded; or (b) any hospital, infirmary, dispensary wholly or mainly maintained by a public authority out of public funds or such like institutions as he may approve from time to time. Power of the Minister to vary First Schedule 45A. If— (a) it appears to the Minister that a decision of the Commission or of the United Nations Organization to alter any of the Schedules to the Single Convention or to apply to a substance, measures of control applicable under that Convention to substances specified in Schedule 1 thereto, requires the addition of a substance to the First Schedule; or