62 STAT.] MULTILATERA-INT . REFUGEE ORGANIZATION-DEC. 16 , 1946 its members, visit camps, hostels or assembly points within the con- trol of the Organization, and may give instructions to the Director- General in consequence of the reports of such visits. 6. The Executive Committee shall receive the reports of the Director-General as provided in paragraph 6 of article 8 of this Constitution, and, after considera- tion thereof, shall request the Director-General to transmit these reports to the General Council with such comments as the Exec- utive Committee may consider appropriate. These reports and such comments shall be trans- mitted to all members of the General Council before its next regular session and shall be pub- lished. The Executive Commit- tee may request the Director- General to submit such further reports as may be deemed nec- essary. ARTICLE 8 ADMINISTRATION 1. The chief administrative offi. cer of the Organization shall be the Director-General. He shall be responsible to the General Council and the Executive Com- mittee and shall carry out the administrative and executive func- tions of the Organization in ac- cordance with the decisions of the General Council and the Execu- tive Committee, and shall report on the action taken thereon. 2. The Director-General shall be nominated by the Executive Committee and appointed by the General Council. If no person acceptable to the General Council is nominated by the Executive Committee, the General Council may proceed to appoint a person who has not been nominated by the Committee. When a vacancy occurs in the office of the Director- General the Executive Committee may appoint an Acting Director- General to assume all the duties and functions of the office until a Director-General can be appointed by the General Council. 3. The Director-General shall serve under a contract which shall be signed on behalf of the Organization by the Chairman of the Executive Committee and it shall be a clause of such con- tract that six months' notice of termination can be given on either side. In exceptional circum- stances, the Executive Committee, subject to subsequent confirma- tion by the General Council, has the power to relieve the Director-General of his duties by a two-thirds majority vote of the members if, in the Committee's opinion, his conduct is such as to warrant such action. 4. The staff of the Organization shall be appointed by the Director- General under regulations to be established by the General Council. 5. The Director-General shall be present, or be represented by one of his subordinate officers, at all meetings of the General Council, or the Executive Com- mittee and of all other committees and sub-committees. He or his representatives may participate in any such meeting but shall have no vote. 6. (a) The Director-General shall prepare at the end of each half-year period a report on the work of the Organization. The report prepared at the end of each alternate period of six months shall relate to the work of the 3043
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