Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume XLI, Issue 36, 13 September 1916, Page 647

Regulations under the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916.

LIVERPOOL, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House at Wellington, this second day of September, 1916. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. ~T ARTHUR WILLIAM DE BRITO SAVILE, Earl of LiverJL ? pool, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, do hereby, in pursuance of the . authority conferred upon me by section three of the War Regulations Amendment Act, 1916, and of all other powers and authorities enabling me in that behalf, make the following regulations under that Act.

REGULATIONS. 1. An attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator who, being a member of an Expeditionary Force under the Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, is absent from New Zealand on His Majesty’s Service, or is about to leave New Zealand on such service, may by a power of attorney executed by him delegate to the Public Trustee all or any of the powers, functions, or duties conferred or imposed upon him as such attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator. 2. In pursuance of such delegation and "within the limits thereof the Public Trustee may, at all times while the grantor of the power of attorney is absent from New Zealand on His Majesty’s Service, exercise and perform in New Zealand on behalf of the grantor all powers, functions, and duties, vested in or imposed upon him in his capacity as attorney, agent, trustee executor, or administrator. 3. All acts so done by the Public Trustee in pursuance of any such delegation shall have the same force and efEect as if done by the attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator in his capacity as such.

4. An act so done by the Public Trustee in good faith and in intended pursuance of any such delegation, and without notice of the fact that the grantor of the power of attorney has died, or has

revoked the power of attorney, or has ceased to he an attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator as aforesaid, or is no longer absent from New Zealand on His Majesty’s service, shall not he invalidated hy that fact, but shall have the same effect and operation as if the fact was otherwise. 5. The grantor of any such power of attorney shall he under no liability in respect of any default or misfeasance of the Public Trustee in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by these regulations, and the Public Trustee shall in respect offany such default or misfeasance incur the same liabilities as if he had himself been the attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator on whose behalf he has so acted. 6. For all services rendered by the Public Trustee under any such power of attorney he shall be entitled to receive from the grantor of that power such remuneration as shall be agreed upon, and in default of agreement such remuneration as is fixed by the Public Trust Office Board. 7. Nothing in the foregoing regulations shall in any manner affect or take away any power of delegation which may be possessed by the attorney, agent, trustee, executor, or administrator independently of these regulations. 8. A minor who is a member of any such Expeditionary Force may grant to any person or body corporate a power of attorney in the same manner and for the same purposes, and with the same force and effect, as if he was of full age, save that nothing done under any such power of attorney while the grantor remains a minor shall have any greater or other force or effect than if it had been done by the minor himself. J. F. ANDREWS, Clerk of the Executive Council.