5.1. Central Office of the Ministry, its structures and subordinate agencies (legal entities, organizations, etc.), as well as relevant executive authorities of The Labour and Social Protection of Population of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic are an integrated system of the Ministry. The Ministry carries out its activities directly and through those bodies. 5.2. The structure of the Ministry, the total number of employees of the Ministry’s Central Office and agencies that are included in the structure of the ministry is determined by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The total number of subordinate institutions (legal entities, organizations, etc.) that are not included in the structure of the Ministry is approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 5.3. .The Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Population (hereinafter - the Minister) is appointed and dismissed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and bears personal responsibility for the fulfillment of duties and implementation of the functions entrusted to the Ministry. 5.4. The Minister has four Deputy Ministers appointed and dismissed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Deputy Ministers act in accordance with the allocation of the functions made by the Minister and bear personal responsibilities for the fulfillment of the functions entrusted to them. 5.5. Minister: 5.5.1. organizes and manages the activity of the Ministry; 5.5.2. conducts segregation of duties between deputy ministers, defines their and ministry’s other officials’ authorities on staff, financial, economic and other issues, and ensures their mutual interaction; 5.5.3. adopts normative legal acts on approval of regulations of the structural branches of the Ministry, bodies that are included in the structure (except for structures whose regulations are approved by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan) and submits charters of legal entities for its approval. 5.5.4. controls activities of bodies of the Ministry and subordinate bodies and coordinates their works. 5.5.5. Within the defined structure, wages fund and number of employees, approves the estimate of costs, structure, staff list and allocated budgetary funds of its bodies and the bodies that are not included in the structure of the ministry’s office; 5.5.6. appoints and dismisses the employees of the central office of the Ministry, heads, and other senior officials of its structures and subordinate bodies (with the exception of bodies whose heads are appointed and dismissed by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan), takes encouragement and disciplinary punishment measures for them in a manner defined by legislation; makes presentations for appointing heads of local subordinate bodies, 5.5.7. issues orders and resolutions whose implementation is mandatory, approves normative legal acts as orders (signs) and organizes their implementation and examines and takes control over them; 5.5.8. annuls the decisions adopted by officials of the Ministry that contradict legislation; 5.5.9. represents the ministry in relation to government agencies, enterprises, institutions and organizations, legal entities and individuals of Azerbaijan Republic and foreign countries, as well as international organizations, signs relevant international documents within the powers granted to him; 5.5.10. ensures the expenditure of the funds allocated from the state budget for its intended purpose; 5.5.11. fulfills other duties in accordance with legislation; 5.6. The Minister can assign temporary performance of part of his duties to one of his deputies; 5.7. With the aim of studying and implementing scientific-technical achievements and advanced experience in the relevant area, scientific-technical council operating on public basis can be set up at the Ministry.The Regulation on Scientific-technical council is approved by the Minister. 5.8. The Ministry creates a board consisting of the Minister (chairman of the Board), deputy ministers, the Minister of the Labour and Social Protection of Population of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and and other senior officials of the Ministry. Experts and scientists can also be included in the composition of the Board of the Ministry 5.9. The number of members and composition of the board of the Ministry is approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 5.10. In its meetings, the Ministry’s Board discusses issues related to the activity of the Ministry, executive discipline, issues related to staff, projects of normative legal acts, and other necessary issues and takes relevant decisions. 5.11. The decisions of the Ministry’s Board are formalized by protocol and are approved by the Minister. 5.12. The meetings of the Board of the Ministry are considered as plenipotentiary by attendance of the majority members. Decisions of the Board of the Ministry are approved by simple majority of votes of its members. In cases of a tie vote, the Chairman’s vote shall be decisive. 5.13. The meetings of the Ministry’s Board are organized by the Minister. 5.14. Work rules of the Board of the Ministry are determined by Minister. 5.15. In the event of disagreement between the members of the Ministry’s Board, the Minister shall implement his decision informing the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan about this. The Board members can send their personal views to the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan. 5.16. Representatives of other executive bodies, organizations, as well as non-governmental organizations can be invited to the meetings of the Board of the Ministry.
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