Does the tender board have the exclusive power to bind Government contractually?
[5] The non-payment moved the Plaintiff to institute the present action for payment of all the outstanding rental as well as for the return of the equipment which was the merx or subject-matter of the master rental agreements. In his plea, the Defendant says that the master rental agreements are all invalid for want of compliance with the provisions of s 4(1) of the Act which provides that: “4. Powers of the board.—(1) The board shall have power to procure supplies and services for the Government and, subject to the provisions of any other Act of the Legislature of the North West, to arrange the hiring or letting of anything or the acquisition or granting of any right for or on behalf of the Government and to dispose of movable Government property, and may for that purpose— • on behalf of the Government, conclude an agreement with a person within or outside the Province for the furnishing or supplies and services to the Government or for the hiring or letting of anything or the acquisi
