✨ War Regulations Amendment
Rumb. 96.
THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1916.
Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916.
LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of September,
1916.
Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.
I, ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by section three of the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, make the following regulations under that Act.
REGULATIONS.
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An attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator who, being a member of an Expeditionary Force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, is absent from New Zealand on His Majesty's Service, or is about to leave New Zealand on such service, may by a power of attorney executed by him delegate to the Public Trustee all or any of the powers, functions, or duties conferred or imposed upon him as such attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator.
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In pursuance of such delegation and within the limits thereof the Public Trustee may, at all times while the grantor of the power of attorney is absent from New Zealand on His Majesty's Service, exercise and perform in New Zealand on behalf of the grantor all powers, functions, and duties vested in or imposed upon him in his capacity as attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator.
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All acts so done by the Public Trustee in pursuance of any such delegation shall have the same force and effect as if done by the attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator in his capacity as such.
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An act so done by the Public Trustee in good faith and in intended pursuance of any such delegation, and without notice of the fact that the grantor of the power of attorney has died, or has revoked the power of attorney, or has ceased to be an attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator as aforesaid, or is no longer absent from New Zealand on His Majesty's service, shall not be invalidated by that fact, but shall have the same effect and operation as if the fact was otherwise.
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The grantor of any such power of attorney shall be under no liability in respect of any default or misfeasance of the Public Trustee in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by these regulations, and the Public Trustee shall in respect of any such default or misfeasance incur
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🏛️ Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration2 September 1916
War Regulations, Legal Delegation, Public Trustee, Expeditionary Forces
- ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand