Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations




(2) The Council may at any time and from time to time discharge,
alter, continue, or reconstitute any committee or discharge any
member of a committee, and, if it thinks fit, appoint another member
in his stead.

(3) The Council may refer to any such committee any matters
for consideration or inquiry, and may with the approval of the
Minister delegate to any such committee any of the powers and duties
by these regulations conferred upon the Council.

REGULATION 7.—GENERAL FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL.
The general functions of the Council shall be—
(a) To advise the Minister, the Board, Provincial Councils, and
controlling committees on all matters affecting the administration
of these regulations to the end that activities for approved patriotic purposes shall be efficiently and economically carried on and that moneys and other property real or personal raised and acquired shall be used to the best advantage of those purposes;
(b) From time to time to make such investigations and inquiries as it deems necessary or as the Minister directs it to make; and
(c) Generally to exercise and perform all such specific powers and
duties as are conferred or imposed on it by these regulations.

REGULATION 8.—PARTICULAR FUNCTIONS OF THE COUNCIL.
The Council shall from time to time, and within such time in any case as the Minister directs,—
(a) Make recommendations to the Minister as to approval or revocation of approval of patriotic purposes:
(b) Review the necessity or otherwise of moneys being raised for any particular patriotic purpose within or beyond New Zealand:
(c) Make such investigations as it thinks fit into methods and means of raising moneys for patriotic purposes, and make recommendations to the Minister—
(i) As to methods and means which, in its opinion, should be prohibited on grounds of cost or difficulties of regulation or control or are otherwise in any way whatever undesirable in the public interest:
(ii) As to methods and means which should be approved subject to special conditions to prevent wasteful or extravagant expenditure:
(iii) As to the limitation or prohibition of payments to persons for services rendered:
(iv) As to methods and means which, in its opinion, may be recommended as desirable from the point of view of economy and likelihood of success:
(d) Investigate and report on organization of efforts for patriotic purposes to the end that overlapping and unnecessarily recurring demands on public generosity may be avoided:



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🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
4 October 1939
Emergency Regulations, Patriotic Purposes, National Patriotic Council, Council Proceedings, Committees