Section 19

The Minister shall from time to time publish in the Gazette a list specifying the several Government departments which are authorised departments for the purposes of this Act, and the name and address for service of the person who is, or is acting for the purposes of this Act as, the solicitor for each such department, and may from time to time amend or vary the list.

Civil proceedings by the Government may be instituted either by an authorised Government department in its own name or by the Attorney‑General.

Civil proceedings against the Government shall be instituted against the appropriate authorised Government department, or, if none of the authorised Government departments is appropriate or the person instituting the proceedings has any reasonable doubt whether any and if so which of those departments is appropriate, against the Attorney‑General.

Where any civil proceedings against the Government are instituted against the Attorney‑General, an application may at any stage of the proceedings be made to the court by or on behalf of the Attorney‑General to have such of the authorised Government departments as may be specified in the application substituted for him as defendant to the proceedings; and where any such proceedings are brought against an authorised Government department, an application may at any stage of the proceedings be made to the court on behalf of that department to have the Attorney‑General or such of the authorised Government departments as may be specified in the application substituted for the applicant as the defendant to the proceedings.Upon any such application the court may if it thinks fit make an order granting the application on such terms as the court thinks just; and on such order being made the proceedings shall continue as if they had been commenced against the department specified in that behalf in the order, or, as the case may require, against the Attorney‑General.

No proceedings instituted in accordance with this Part by or against the Attorney‑General or an authorised Government department shall abate or be affected by any change in the person holding the office of Attorney‑General or in the person or body of persons constituting the department.