The National Spiritual Assembly has the responsibility to ensure that contributions received are properly receipted, and satisfactory accounts kept of all receipts and disbursements. While the Treasurer normally is the officer in charge of such a sacred obligation, this does not mean that other members are thereby relieved of all responsibility, or are deprived of their right of access to details related to the current operation of the Assembly, in all its aspects.
Such right and responsibility vested in the individual members of the Assembly do not vitiate the confidentiality of Bahá'í contributions, since the information made available to the Treasurer or other members of the Assembly is to be treated in strict confidence.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, dated January 11, 1977; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’; compilation: ‘Developing Distinctive Baha'i Communities’, prepare by US NSA, 1998 edition)