No appointment of any medical officer, or of any dental officer, or of any architect as an employee of a Board, or of any matron, or of any master, manager, or engineer of an institution under this Act, or of the Secretary or Chief Engineer to a Board, shall be made until the expiration of twenty-one days after the Minister has been notified by the Board of its intention to make the appointment, unless the Minister has previously approved a proposal to make the appointment.

Before notifying the Minister of its intention to make any such appointment as aforesaid the Board shall send to the Minister a list of the applicants. The Minister shall, as soon as may be practicable, submit to the Board for its guidance such reports and recommendations as he thinks fit; and the Board shall give due and fair consideration to the recommendations before making any appointment.”

The Board may, pursuant to a resolution in that behalf,—

The moneys belonging to any Imprest Account so established shall be kept at such bank, being a bank within the meaning of the Banking Act, 1908, as the Board from time to time determines.

An Imprest Account established under paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section may be held jointly in the names of and be operated on by the Secretary or Treasurer and one other person appointed in that behalf by the Board, who shall be either a responsible officer of the Board or a member of the Board.

Any Imprest Account established under paragraph (b) of subsection one of this section may be held jointly in the names of and be operated on by a responsible officer of the Board, being an officer employed at the place where the account is established, appointed by the Board in that behalf and any one of such other persons as may from time to time be authorized by the Board in that behalf. The persons so authorized as aforesaid shall be members of the Board or of the committee of management of the institution or responsible officers of the Board.

Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing provisions of this section, any Imprest Account established under this section may, with the express approval in writing of the Audit Office, but not otherwise, be in the sole name of and be operated on by the Secretary or the Treasurer or any other responsible officer of the Board appointed by the Board in that behalf.

The Board shall from time to time, by resolution, fix the maximum amount that may be held at any time in each Imprest Account under this section:

“Provided that the amount so fixed in any case where the Imprest Account may be operated on by one person acting alone shall not exceed fifty pounds:

“Provided also that the amount so fixed in respect of any Imprest Account established under paragraph (b) of subsection one of this section shall not exceed fifty pounds, except on any day fixed for the payment of the salaries and wages of persons employed in the institution and during the period of five days immediately preceding that day.

Moneys in an Imprest Account established under paragraph (a) of subsection one of this section shall be available only for the payment of emergency and petty expenditure.

Moneys in any Imprest Account established under paragraph (b) of subsection one of this section shall be available only for the payment of the salaries and wages of officers and employees of the Board who are employed in the locality in which the account is established, and for the payment of emergency and petty expenditure.

A statement of all payments made from each Imprest Account under this section shall in every month be submitted to the Board for approval at its first ordinary meeting thereafter.

The payment of moneys out of any Imprest Account for any purpose not authorized by this section shall be deemed to be the misappropriation of the funds of the Board.

The provisions of section sixty-three of this Act shall be read subject to the provisions of this section.”

Any Board may from time to time appoint standing or special committees, consisting of two or more persons, for the management of any institution under the control of the Board, or for the regulation and management of, or for inquiring into and reporting upon, such matters as the Board thinks fit; and may from time to time, either generally or particularly, delegate to any such committee any of the powers and duties conferred or imposed on the Board by this Act, except the power to borrow money, to make a by-law, to enter into a contract, or to institute an action.

Any such committee may include persons who are not members of the Board:

“Provided that no person shall be qualified to become or to continue to be a member of any such committee who would be disqualified by virtue of section twenty-three or section twenty-four of this Act from becoming or continuing to be a member of the Board.

The Board may at any time discharge, alter, continue, or reconstitute any committee, or discharge any member thereof and, if it thinks fit, appoint another member in his place. Every committee shall, unless sooner discharged by the Board, be deemed to be discharged on the coming into office of the members of the Board at the general election next after the appointment of the committee.

Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding subsection, and to any regulations made by the Board pursuant to section forty-one of this Act, every committee to which any powers or duties are delegated under this section may, without confirmation by the Board, exercise those powers or perform those duties in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been directly conferred on the committee by this Act and not by delegation.

Every committee appointed under this section shall be subject in all things to the control of the Board, and shall carry out all directions, general or special, given by the Board in relation to the committee or its affairs.

Notwithstanding anything in this Act,—

1948, No. 58