✨ Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations
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(4) In fixing the amount of any such order regard shall be had to
the culpability of the person against whom the order is sought and
to the scale for the time being in force for the audit of the accounts
of local bodies under Part XIV of the Public Revenues Act, 1926.
(5) Any such order may be made against two or more persons so
as to impose a joint and several liability upon them.
REGULATION 27.--PENALTY FOR MISAPPROPRIATION OF THE PROVINCIAL PATRIOTIC FUND, ETC.
(1) If on the audit of any Patriotic Fund or on any investigation
or inquiry made under these regulations it appears that any moneys.
or any other property real or personal subject to these regulations
have been expended, applied, or used for any unauthorized purpose,
the moneys or the value of such property may be recovered to the
use of the Fund or of any body to which they lawfully belong by the
Minister, or any person authorized in that behalf by the Minister,
from the person or body by whom they were so expended, applied,
or used as aforesaid as if such moneys or such value were a debt owing
jointly and severally by all the defendants in the proceedings.
(2) Every person who authorizes or joins in authorizing the
expenditure or application of any such moneys or other property
as aforesaid for any unauthorized purpose shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine of £100.
(3) In any proceedings under this regulation it shall be a good
defence if the defendant proves--
(a) That the moneys or other property were expended or applied--
(i) Without his knowledge;
(ii) If with his knowledge, then against his protest made
at or before the time when the expenditure or application
was authorized; or
(b) That, in being a party to the authorization of any such
expenditure or application, he acted in good faith and
with the written advice of a solicitor.
PART V.--PATRIOTIC PURPOSES AND AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.
REGULATION 28.--APPROVAL OF PATRIOTIC PURPOSES.
(1) The Minister may from time to time by notice in the Gazette
declare any patriotic purpose to be an approved patriotic purpose
under these regulations.
(2) Any such declaration may apply generally to the National
Patriotic Fund and all Provincial Funds or be limited to any Fund
or Funds specified in such declaration, and any such declaration
may at any time in like manner be revoked.
(3) Any Provincial Council desiring approval of any patriotic
purpose in connection with its Fund which is not covered by any
declaration applying generally as aforesaid shall make application to
the Minister in writing for a declaration by the Minister in that
behalf, and the Minister may in his discretion grant or refuse such
application, or grant the same subject to such conditions as he thinks
fit to impose, and may, in any case before granting such approval,
require the Council to furnish him with such particulars and
information as he thinks fit to enable him to satisfy himself as to
the necessity or the desirability of such approval.
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