14. Power to appoint committees---(1) The Trustees may from time to
 time, by resolution, appoint or discharge or alter or continue or
 reconstitute:
   (a) An executive committee of not fewer than 3 members:
   (b) A special committee, consisting of [5] members of whom one shall
         be the Secretary for Internal Affairs and one shall be a trustee
         appointed or holding office under section 9 of this Act and
         having special interest in and knowledge of the Alexander
         Turnbull Library, to advise the Trustees on all matters relating
         to the Alexander Turnbull Library, and to exercise such powers
         as are delegated to them under this section:
   (c) Other special committees for particular purposes.

   (2) Every member of the executive committee shall be a trustee
 appointed or holding office under section 9 of this Act, but (subject to
 paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of this section) any person may be
 appointed to a special committee, notwithstanding that he is not such a
 trustee.

   (3) The Trustees may delegate to any committee appointed under this
 section such of their powers as they think fit.

   (4) Subject to any general or special directions given or conditions
 attached by the Trustees, any powers and functions so delegated may be
 performed and exercised by any committee appointed under this section
 with the same effect as if those powers and functions had been directly
 conferred by this Act and not by delegation.

   (5) Every such delegation shall be revocable at will, and no such
 delegation shall prevent the exercise of any power by the Trustees.

   (6) Unless and until any such delegation is revoked, it shall continue
 in force according to its tenor.

       In subs. 1) (b) the expression ``5'' was substituted for the
     expression ``4'' by s. 2 of the National Library Amendment Act 1973.