Section 10: Regional Committees

10. Regional Committees (1) (a) The Island of Mauritius shall be divided into 4 regions in such manner as the Council may determine. (b) Rodrigues shall form a separate region. (2) Every region shall be managed and administered by a regional committee which shall be responsible to the Council for the activities of organisations of women of the region. (3) (a) Every regional committee shall meet as often as necessary and at such place as may be prescribed. (b) Every regional committee shall determine its activities and regulate its proceedings. (4) Every organisation of women within a region shall each year elect one of its members to sit on the regional committee having jurisdiction over the region. (5) Every regional committee shall recommend affiliation of its members to the National Council. (6) Every regional committee shall be registered with the Registrar of Associations. (7) Every regional committee shall keep a register of members in such form as it may determine. [Issue 1] N29 – 4 (8) Every regional committee shall produce its books and documents for inspection whenever so requested by any person appointed by the National Committee. (9) No person shall be appointed as treasurer or auditor of a regional committee without the prior approval of the National Committee. (10) Every regional committee shall, by 30 September at the latest in each year, submit to the National Committee— (a) a return in such form as it may determine; (b) a certified report on its activities during the preceding year together with a statement of its accounts duly audited. [S. 10 amended by Act 43 of 1989.]