Financial Regulations of the Territory of Papua (Amendment) (Provisional) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1912. No. 194.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE PAPUA ACT 1905.

I, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that on account of urgency the following Regulations under the Papua Act 1905 shall come into immediate operation and make the Regulations come into operation as Provisional Regulations forthwith.

Dated this 26th day of September, 1912.

DENMAN.

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOSIAH THOMAS,

Minister of State for External Affairs.

 

No 32.—In the second line, after the word “collections,” insert the following words:—“Together with a transcript of his cash book.”

Nos. 32a and 33.—Repeal the whole of both, and in lieu thereof insert Regulation No. 33 as follows:—

“The transcripts of the Revenue Cash Books shall be forwarded by the Treasurer to the Commissioner for Lands, who shall cause the details of revenue under the head of Lands, Mines, Survey, and Agriculture, to be recorded in his registers forthwith, and the transcripts returned within three days to the Treasurer.”

No. 83.—After the last word “cost” insert the words “with 5 per cent. added.”

No. 85.—In the second line, after the word “requisitions,” the following words be inserted, “in duplicate.” In the third line, that the words “Secretary to the Board” be deleted, and in lieu thereof the following words be inserted, “the Certifying Officer controlling the vote under which the expenditure is proposed to be made.”

Regulation No. 85 will then read:—

“All articles required for the Public Service must be applied for on the requisition forms supplied for the purpose. Requisitions in duplicate must be sent to the Certifying Officer controlling the vote under which the expenditure is proposed to be made.”

No. 85a.—A new Regulation is made, No. 85a, as follows:—

“Upon receipt of a requisition the Certifying Officer shall, if he approve of it, certify to the same and forward it to the Secretary to the Board.”

C.12815.—Price 3d.

“The Certifying Officer shall not certify any requisition until he is satisfied—

“(a) That the amount set down for the goods required has not been under-estimated;

“(b) That the amount is a proper and duly authorized charge upon the funds of the Government of Papua;

“(c) That the appropriation or fund to which it is chargeable is correctly stated thereon;

“(d) That the legal appropriation of the revenue suffices for the payment of the requisition and all requisitions previously certified; or, if the amount is not payable out of the revenue, that funds suffice for its payment and for the payment of all requisitions previously certified;

“(e) That a requisition for the same stores and for the same service as that mentioned on the requisition under notice, or for part of it, has not previously been certified;

“(f) That the requisition is in such a form and contains such details as may be reasonably expected in all the circumstances.”

 

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