London Account Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1921. No. 30.

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LONDON ACCOUNT REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUDIT ACT 1901-1920.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the within London Account Regulations under the Audit Act 1901-1920, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this fifth day of February 1921.

FORSTER,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ARTHUR S. RODGERS,

For the Treasurer.

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Amendment of London Account Regulations under the “Audit Act 1901-1920.”

Relation 28 is repealed, and the following regulation inserted in lieu thereof:—

28. When the Paying Officer forwards a cheque by post, the service paid for by such cheque shall be notified thereon. In such cases a direction shall be printed on the envelope that, if not claimed, within fourteen days, it shall be returned to the Official Secretary. When a cheque is paid to a Bank Account for credit to the payee, advice shall be sent to him in Form 11.

Regulation 31 is cancelled, and the following regulation inserted in lieu thereof:—

31. After having been marked off in the Cash Book, the cheques, together with the Bank Schedule, shall be handed by the Paying Officer to the Sub-Accountant. On receipt of paid cheques from the Paying Officer, the Sub-Accountant shall compare them with the relative accounts, and shall satisfy himself that the receipt on each cheque is properly signed. He shall also make any further examination which may be necessary. The paid cheques shall be then attached to the copies of the accounts to which they relate. Where one cheque is drawn for two or more accounts, the cheque shall be attached to one of the copies of such accounts, and the number of the copy account to which the cheque is attached shall be noted on each of the other copies.

Regulation 48 is cancelled, and the following, regulation inserted in lieu thereof:—

• 48. The amounts on Bank Account, Form 4, shall be added, and the balances carried down, on the seventh, fourteenth, twenty-first, and last day of every month. A copy shall be made of all the entries made in the Bank Account since the previous balancing date. Such copy shall, after certification by the Accountant, be handed

   with the paid accounts and a list of cheques unpaid by the Bank up to date, to the Official Secretary, who shall transmit all the documents to the Treasury by the first available mail.

 

The following addition is made to regulation 49:—

(c) That all cheques drawn on the Commonwealth’s London Bank Account up to the end of the period referred to have, with the exception of those shown on the attached list, been duly examined and attached to the respective copy accounts to which they relate.

Form 10 is cancelled.

Form 11 is amended by deleting the word “Paid”, and inserting “Posted” in lieu thereof.

 

Printed and Published for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia by Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer for the State of Victoria.