Section 1: Competent authorites to control, etc, petroleum.

(1) There shall be for the purpose of this Act, competent authorities to control the storage, transport and distribution of petroleum.
(2) The person responsible for co-ordination and control of storage, transport and distribution of petroleum shall be the Minister of Petroleum Resources (hereafter in the Act referred to as "the controller"), and the Governor shall, in the State under his control, appoint a fit person to be a deputy controller in that state.
(3) To the extent to which no appointment of fit person for the purposes of this section is made by the controller, any deputy controller may, in his own State, appoint fit persons for the purpose, or may himself delegate the power to appoint according to circumstances existing at any particular time.
(4) Appointments of fit persons under this section may be made either by name or by designing the holder for the time being of any particular office.
(5) In the application of this section, the following shall be "competent authorities", that is to say-
(a) the controller,
(b) any deputy controller,
(c) other fit persons appointed under this section.