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Auditors.

Statements and reports to be laid on table of Legislative Council.

Power of the Governor in Council to make regula- tions.

Power of the

Board to make rules.

Saving.

15. (1) The Board shall appoint auditors, who shall be en- titled at any time to have access to all books of account, vouchers and other financial records of the Polytechnic and to require such information and explanations thereof as they may think fit.

(2) The auditors shall audit the statements prepared under subsection (2) of section 14 and shall report thereon to the Board.

16. (1) The Board shall, not later than six months after the end of each financial year, or before such later date as the Governor may allow in any particular year, submit to the Governor a report on the activities of the Polytechnic and copies of the statements prepared under subsection (2) of section 14 and the report made under subsection (2) of section 15.

(2) The Governor shall cause the reports and statemeats received by him under subsection (1) to be laid on the table of the Legislative Council.

17. The Governor in Council may make regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.

18. The Board may, subject to any regulations made under section 17, make rules for the better carrying out of the purposes of this Ordinance and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, may provide for-

(a) the regulation of its proceedings and the proceedings

of any committee appointed under section 9:

(b) the membership and quorum of any committee appointed

under section 9;

(c) the powers, functions and duties of any committee

appointed under section 9;

(d) the discipline of persons in the employment of the

Polytechnic;

(e) the regulation of the conduct and discipline of students

of the Polytechnic;

()the making of academic awards.

19. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect or be deemed to affect the rights of Her Majesty the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors, or the rights of any body politic or corporate or of any other persons except such as are mentioned in this Ordinance and those claiming by, from or under them.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 21st day of July, 1971.

سهل

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.