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Powers.
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17.—Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Committee shall have, in addition to any other powers vested in or conferred on it by any other provision of this Act power:—
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(a) to purchase, take on lease or otherwise acquire any lands, buildings, farms, gardens, or other property for any estate or interest whatsoever and any rights or privileges or easements over or in respect of any property.
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(b) to sell, improve, manage, develop, exchange, lease, hire, mortgage, dispose, turn into account or otherwise deal with all or any part of the undertaking property and rights of the Committee.
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(c) to borrow, or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as the Committee shall think fit,
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(d) to invest and deal with the moneys of the Committee not immediately required and in such manner as may from time to time be determined.
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(e) to employ such executive, professional, clerical, skilled or labouring staff as may be required by the Committee from time to time and to provide for the remuneration of such persons.
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(f) to accept, seek and collect grants, subscriptions, donations, devises, and bequests for all or any of the purposes of the Committee and generally to manage, invest and expend all moneys or property belonging to the Committee.
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(g) to enter into an Agreement for co-operation or reciprocal concession with any Government or Authorities supreme, municipal or otherwise, corporate bodies, unincorporated associations, or persons that may seem conducive to the attainment of the objects of the Committee or any of them and to obtain from any Government, Authority, Company, Firm or person any charters, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges and concessions which the Committee may think desirable and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such charters, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges and concessions.
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(h) to establish and maintain or procure the establishment and maintenance of any contributory or non-contributory pension or superannuation funds for the benefit of and give or procure the giving of donations, gratuities, pensions, allowances or emoluments to any persons who are or were at any time in the employment or service of the Committee or of the 1846 Committee and the wives, widows, families and dependants of any such persons and to make payments to or towards the insurance of any such person as aforesaid and do any of the matters aforesaid either alone or in conjunction with any other person.
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(i) to build, construct, erect, improve and maintain buildings, Chapels, monuments, headstones and structures for use or decoration in or in connection with cemeteries or burial grounds.
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(j) to bury, inter, preserve or dispose of human remains whether in accordance with the rites, services or beliefs of any religious denomination or otherwise.
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(k) to do all such other things as the Committee may consider incidental or conducive to the attainment or advancement of any of the objects of the Committee.
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