Any Apprenticeship Committee may, by resolution, appoint a subcommittee consisting of such one or more of its members as the Committee thinks fit:

“Provided that the Committee shall not appoint a subcommittee consisting of fewer than three members, except by a resolution passed by the unanimous vote of the members of the Apprenticeship Committee present and voting on the resolution.

Where the number of members of any subcommittee is more than two, there shall be an equal number of representatives of employers and of workers appointed to the subcommittee.

The Apprenticeship Committee may from time to time, by resolution, delegate to a subcommittee appointed by it under this section all or any of the powers exercisable by the Committee under this Act including any powers delegated to the Committee, but not including this present power of delegation.

Each power delegated under subsection three of this section shall be specified in the resolution delegating the power.

Subject to any general or special directions given or conditions attached by the Apprenticeship Committee, the subcommittee to whom any powers are delegated under this section may exercise those powers in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been conferred on the subcommittee directly by this section and not by delegation:

“Provided that the subcommittee shall not exercise any such power except by the unanimous decision of the members of the subcommittee, unless the Apprenticeship Committee, by the unanimous vote of the members of the Apprenticeship Committee present and voting, has resolved that a majority of the members of the subcommittee may exercise that power.

Every subcommittee purporting to act pursuant to any delegation under this section shall be presumed to be acting in accordance with the terms of the delegation in the absence of proof to the contrary.

Every delegation under this section shall be revocable at the will of the Apprenticeship Committee, and no such delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Committee.

In this section the term ‘Apprenticeship Committee’ means a New Zealand Committee or a local Committee.”