44 Assistance to organisations.E+W+S
(1)The Commission may give financial or other assistance to any organisation appearing to the Commission to be concerned with the promotion of equality of opportunity, and good relations, between persons of different racial groups, but shall not give any such financial assistance out of money provided (through the Secretary of State) by Parliament except with the approval of the Secretary of State given with the consent of the Treasury.
(2)Except in so far as other arrangements for their discharge are made and approved under paragraph 13 of Schedule 1—
(a)the Commission’s functions under subsection (1); and
(b)other functions of the Commission in relation to matters connected with the giving of such financial or other assistance as is mentioned in that subsection,
shall be discharged under the general direction of the Commission by a committee of the Commission consisting of at least three but not more than five Commissioners, of whom one shall be the deputy chairman or one of the deputy chairmen of the Commission.