Regulations for Government Research Grant. 547 



REGULATIONS FOR ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT 



RESEARCH GRANT.* 



All grants shall be subject to the following conditions, and each grantee 

 shall be duly informed of these conditions : — 



1. All instruments, specimens, objects, or materials of permanent value, 

 whether purchased or obtained out of or by means of the grant, or supplied 

 from among those at the disposal of the Institute, are to be regarded, unless 

 the Research Grants Committee decide otherwise, as the property of the 

 Institute, and are to be returned by the grantee, for disposal according to 

 the orders of the committee, at the conclusion of his research, or at such 

 other time as the committee may determine. 



2. Every one receiving a grant shall furnish to the Research Grants 

 Committee, on or before the 1st January following upon the allotment of 

 the grant, a report (or, if the object of the grant be not attained, an in- 

 terim report, to be renewed at the same date in each subsequent year until 

 a final report can be furnished or the committee dispense with further 

 reports) containing (a) a brief statement showing the results arrived at 

 or the stage which the inquiry has reached ; (b) a general statement of the 

 expenditure incurred, accompanied, as far as is possible, with vouchers ; 

 (c) a list of the instruments, specimens, objects, or materials purchased or 

 obtained out of the grant, or supplied by the committee, which are at 

 present in his possession ; and (d) references to any transactions, journals, 

 or other publications in which results of the research have been printed. 

 In the event of the grantee failing to send in within three months of 

 the said 1st January a report satisfactory to the committee he may be 

 required, on resolution of the Board of Governors, to return the whole of 

 the sum allotted to him. 



3. Where a grant is made to two or more persons acting as a committee 

 for the purpose of carrying out some research, one member of the said 

 committee shall assume the responsibility of furnishing the report and 

 receiving and disbursing the money. 



4. Papers in which results are published that have been obtained 

 through aid furnished by the Government grant should contain an acknow- 

 ledgment of that fact. 



5. Every grantee shall, before any of the grant is paid to him, be 

 required to sign an engagement that he is prepared to carry out the general 

 conditions applicable to all grants, as well as any conditions which may 

 be attached to his particular grant. 



6. In cases where specimens or preparations of permanent value are 

 obtained through a grant the committee shall, as far as possible, direct that 

 such specimens shall be deposited in a museum or University college within 

 the province where the specimens or material were obtained, or in which 

 the grantee has worked. The acknowledgment of the receipt of the speci- 

 mens by such institution shall fully satisfy the claims of the Institute. 



7. In cases where, after completion of a research, the committee directs 

 that any instrument or apparatus obtained by means of the grant shall be 

 deposited in an institution of higher learning, such deposit shall be subject 

 to an annual report from the institution in question as to the condition of 

 the instrument or apparatus, and as to the use that has been made of it. 



* In addition to these regulations the Standing Committee is also bound by certain 

 resolutions which appear on page 536 of volume 49, Trans. N.Z. Inst., and which grantees 

 are also bound to observe. 



