✨ Patriotic Purposes Emergency Regulations
REGULATION 29.—AUTHORIZED COLLECTORS.
(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to raise money or to take
up collections in money or goods for any patriotic purpose, or to
solicit gifts in money or goods or in any way to hold himself out as
willing to receive such gifts for any such purpose unless such purpose
is an approved purpose and such person is an authorized collector.
(2) Every person who commits a breach of any of these regulations
relating to the raising or collecting or soliciting or receiving of moneys
or goods for patriotic purposes or of the conditions on which he has
been appointed an authorized collector, or of any of the conditions
governing his activities as an authorized collector, commits an offence
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of £100 and, where
the breach is a continuing one, to a further fine of £10 for every day
or part of a day during which such offence continues.
REGULATION 30.—APPOINTMENT AND CONTROL OF AUTHORIZED
COLLECTORS FOR NATIONAL FUND.
(1) The Minister may from time to time appoint any person to
be an authorized collector for the National Fund.
(2) Without such appointment as aforesaid—
(a) Every Mayor of a city or borough, and every Chairman of a
County Council, every Chairman of a Road Board in a
County in which the Counties Act is suspended or not in
operation, and every Chairman of a Town District not
forming part of a County:
(b) The proprietor of every registered newspaper:
(c) Every trading-bank and savings-bank so far as regards collection
from their respective customers and depositors:
(d) Every Postmaster and every branch of the Post Office Savings-
bank,-
shall be deemed to be an authorized collector, but in acting as such
shall observe all such conditions and directions as the Minister may
from time to time impose or give.
(3) Any person who desires to be appointed an authorized collector
for the National Fund shall make application in writing to the
Minister in such form as the Minister prescribes, and the Minister
in his discretion may grant or refuse such application.
(4) The Minister may, without application to him in that behalf,
from time to time by notice in the Gazette appoint to be an authorized
collector for the National Fund any society, association, or other body
of persons, whether incorporated or not, which the Minister deems
to be a body specially qualified by its objects and organization to be
such a collector, and may with respect to each such body, by writing
under his hand, define the scope of its activities, the persons through
whom, and the methods by which it may raise moneys for the
National Fund, or collect or otherwise acquire goods for distribution
by or on behalf of the Board, and impose such conditions as to
giving receipts and accounting for all such moneys and goods as
he thinks fit.
(5) The Minister may at any time in his discretion revoke any
appointment under this regulation or prohibit any person or body
from continuing to exercise the authority conferred by clause (2) of
this regulation.
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VUW Te Waharoa —
NZ Gazette 1939, No 123
NZLII —
NZ Gazette 1939, No 123
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