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(4) Every person appointed to any committee who is not a member of the Council and every public officer co-opted to serve on any committee shall be a member thereof for the purposes of voting and determining a quorum.

Delegation of powers

36. (1) Subject to subsection (4) the Council may by resolution delegate any of its powers and functions, including the power conferred by this section to delegate power, to any member of the Council or to any committee of the Council or to any member of any such committee or to any public officer with full powers to enforce any of the provisions of any enactment conferring powers on the Council. (Amended 9 of 1986 s. 19)

(2) (Repealed 9 of 1986 s. 19)

(3) In any case where a single member is exercising such delegated powers under the provisions of subsection (1), if he is not in agreement with a recommendation in writing of a public officer he shall refer such recommenda- tion to the appropriate Select Committee or to the Council, and the Committee or the Council, as the case may be, shall decide whether the recommendation be accepted, modified or rejected. (Amended 9 of 1986 s. 19)

(4) No delegation under subsection (1) shall authorize the exercise of any power (Amended 9 of 1986 s. 19)

(a) to approve the annual list of works or estimates of revenue or expenditure of the Council, or any revision thereof made under sec- tion 39A; (Replaced 65 of 1979 s. 2)

(aa) 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 39A); (Added 65 of 1979 s. 2)

(b) to raise any loan under section 42(1);

(c) to authorize the annual report or statements of receipts and payments and of assets and liabilities of the Council; (Amended 65 of 1979 s. 2)

(d) to make any bylaw or regulation; or

(e) to invest surplus funds of the Council under section 43 other than on deposit in any bank licensed under the Banking Ordinance (Cap. 155) on fixed term or call deposit or in a current or savings account. (Replaced 9 of 1986 s. 19)

(5) Nothing in paragraph (a) or (aa) of subsection (4) shall affect the authority of the Council to delegate its powers in bylaws made in accordance with section 37. (Added 65 of 1979 s. 2)

PART VII

FINANCIAL PROVISIONS

Accounts of the Council

37. (1) The accounts of the Council shall be prepared in such form, and maintained in such manner as the Director of Accounting Services may direct.