Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 69

The budget estimates shall be considered by the Presidium. In the case of differences of opinion the Manager of the Palestine Office may bring his proposals before the Palestine Office Commission. The report and the proposals shall be sent, together with an expression of opinion of the Palestine Office Commission and of the Presidium, to the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency. (7) If meetings of the Palestine Office Commission cannot take place on three successive occasions owing to the lack of the requisite number of members, the Manager of the Palestine Office shall propose to the Presidium that it shall inform those parties whose members have not appeared at the meetings that they are to elect new members. The meetings of the Palestine Commission shall take place at least once a month. (8) The parties concerned can delegate their representatives to the Palestine Office Commission by communicating their respective names to the Palestine Office, and only the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency has a right to strike out the names of one or more of the candidates. (9) In the case of differences of opinion between the manager of the Palestine Office and its Presidium, the Palestine Office Commission shall decide. If there are any disputes with the Palestine Office Commission, the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency shall decide. (10) The manager of the Palestine Office is obliged to prevent the carrying out of any resolution which is in contradiction to the immigration regulations and the instructions of the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, or to the budget approved by the .Executive of the Jewish Agency, and to submit the matter to the Executive for consideration and the adoption of a decision. The Presidium of the Palestine Office has the right to prevent the •carrying out of instructions of the manager of the Palestine Office if they are in contradiction to the statute of the Palestine Office or to the instructions of the Executive of the Jewish Agency. (11) If a member of the Palestine Office Commission violates his duties as a member of the Commission or does anything in immigration matters which is in contradiction to the decisions of the Palestine Office Commission, or the instructions of the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, he shall appear before the Zionist Court of Honour and shall not. take part in the work of the Palestine Office Commission until the Court has announced its decision. Such decision requires confirmation by the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, and if a whole party is concerned it requires confirmation by the entire Executive of the Jewish Agency as well as approval by the Congress Attorney. (12) The Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency can dissolve or discharge the Palestine Office Commission after two warnings if its activity is in contradiction to the Department's instructions. (13) In case of the dissolution of a Palestine Office Commission, the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency shall appoint an administrative committee of the Palestine Office, which shall discharge its tasks until the new Palestine Office Commission is elected or until the Immigration Department of the Agency itself appoints the members of the Commission. E.—Palestine Office Conferences. (1) Conferences of the Palestine Offices shall be convened upon the invitation of the Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, if it considers such Conferences necessary. (2) Representatives of the Palestine Offices and of the Palestine Office Commissions shall take part in the Conferences in accordance with the decision of the Palestine Office Commissions or of the Managers of the Palestine Office provided there is no other decision. 69