Key legal question
Whether the challenged order qualifies as a departmental order under § 51 lit. a GO and is therefore appealable to the Administrative Court.
Extracted holding
No. Only orders issued and signed by the head of the department, or exceptionally by the deputy, are departmental orders within the meaning of § 51 lit. a GO.
Extracted reasoning
The contested order was signed by the secretary of the Road Traffic Legal Service, not by the department head or deputy. Orders from subordinate offices are not covered by § 51 lit. a GO.