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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 76

Regulations relating to the New Zealand Government Stores Control
Board.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 28th day of October,
1925.

Present:

His Excellency The Governor-General in Council.

WHEREAS by paragraph $(a)$ of subsection two of section three of
the Public Revenues Act, 1910, as amended by Part II of
the Finance Act, 1922 , it is provided that the Governor-General may
from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for the
purchase, safe custody, sale, or other disposal, or writing-off, and
issue of public stores and rendering accounts in respect of such stores,
and for the audit of such accounts :

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred
on him by the said Act, His Excellency the Governor-General of the
Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent
of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, for the purpose of
better controlling the purchase, distribution, and use of stores required
by Government departments

1. Doth hereby revoke the regulations under the Public Revenues
   Act, 1910, made on the fifth day of May, one thousand nine
   hundred and twenty-two, and published in the Gazette on
   the same day; and
2. Doth hereby make in substitution therefor the following regulations ; and
3. Doth hereby order that the said revocation shall take effect and
   the new regulations hereby made shall come into force on the
   date of gazetting hereof.

REGULATIONS.

DEFINITIONS.

1. (a.) These regulations may be cited as “The New Zealand Government Stores Control Board Regulations, 1925.”
   (b.) Under these regulations
   “Board” means the New Zealand Government Stores Control
   Board referred to in clause 2 hereof :
   “Advisory Committee” means the Advisory Committee referred
   to in clause 12 hereof:
   “Supplies and Tenders Committee” includes any separate
   departmental committee consisting of departmental officers
   nominated respectively by the Permanent Heads of the New
   Zealand Railways, Public Works, and Post and Telegraph
   Departments:
   “Purchasing Department ” includes the New Zealand Railways
   Department, the Public Works Department, and the Post
   and Telegraph Department:
   “District Supplies and Tenders Committees” means committees
   of the District Storekeeper representatives (or other officers
   appointed for the purpose) of the New Zealand Railways and
   Public Works Departments and such district officers as
   may be appointed in that behalf by the Permanent Head
   of the Post and Telegraph Department:
   “Chairman” means the Chairman of the New Zealand Government Stores Control Board:
   “Deputy Chairman” means the Deputy Chairman of the New
   Zealand Government Stores Control Board:
   “Government Department” or “Department” means any
   Department, office, or branch of the service of the Government of New Zealand which is administered separately:
   “Minister” means the Minister of the Crown concerned as
   Ministerial Head of the Department for which stores are
   required:
   “Permanent Head” means the head or principal administrative
   officer of any Department:
   “Secretary” means the executive officer of the Board and
   Advisory Committee:
   “Stores” means any article of a consumable or a non-consumable
   nature as defined by Treasury Regulation No. 143 required
   to carry out the services of any Government Department.

NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT STORES CONTROL BOARD.

2. For the purpose of carrying out the functions provided in
   Treasury Regulation No. 144 there shall be a Board to be known as
   the “New Zealand Government Stores Control Board.”