1986 Ed.]
Regional Council
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officer with full powers to enforce any of the provisions of any enactment conferring powers on the Regional Council.
(2) Any committee of the Regional Council may by resolution delegate to any member of such committee or to any sub-committee established by it or to any member of any such sub-committee or to any public officer such powers and functions (including powers to enforce any of the provisions of any enactment conferring powers on the Regional Council) as may have been delegated by the Regional Council to such committee.
(3) In any case where a single member is exercising such delegated powers under the provisions of subsection (1) or (2), if he is not in agreement with a recommendation in writing of a public officer he shall refer such recommendation to the Regional Council, and the Regional Council shall decide whether the recommendation be accepted, modified or rejected.
(4) No delegation under subsection (1) or (2) shall authorize the exercise of any power-
(a) to approve the annual list of works or estimates of revenue or expenditure of the Regional Council, or any revision thereof made under section 42;
(b) to incur expenditure in excess of that provided for in the estimates of expenditure (whether as originally approved or as from time to time revised under section 42);
(c) to raise any loan under section 47(1);
(d) to authorize the annual report or statements of receipts and payments and of assets and liabilities of the Regional Council;
(e) to make any by-law or regulation; or
(f) to invest surplus funds of the Regional Council under section 48 other than on deposit in any bank licensed under the Banking Ordinance on fixed term or call deposit or in a current or savings account.
(5) Nothing in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (4) shall affect the authority of the Regional Council to delegate its powers in by-laws made in accordance with section 39.
PART VII
FINANCIAL PROVISIONS
39. (1) The accounts of the Regional Council shall be prepared in such form, and maintained in such manner as the Director of Accounting Services may direct.
(2) Subject to subsections (1) and (3), the Regional Council may make by-laws for the regulation and control of its finances, including provisions as to the following-
(a) limitations on expenditure by any committee, sub-committee or person to whom the powers of the Regional Council to authorize expenditure may be delegated;
(Cap. 155.)
Accounts of the Regional Council.