Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 Public Finance and Audit (General) Amendment (Officers of Authorities) Regulation 1998 (1998-38) [GG No 9 of 23.1.1998, p 356] (NSW)

1998 No 38

New South Wales

Public Finance and Audit (General)

Amendment (Officers of Authorities)

Regulation 1998

under the

Public Finance and Audit Act 1983

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983.

Michael Egan

Treasurer

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe those persons who hold certain positions in the Central Corporate Services Unit, Department of Public Works and Services to be officers of specified public sector authorities for the purposes of exercising functions under the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 relating to committing or incurring expenditure and authorising payments of accounts. The specified authorities include the Treasury, The Cabinet Office and the Premier's Department.

This Regulation is made under the Public Finance and Audit Act 1983,

including sections 4 (1) (the definition of officer of an authority) and 64

(the general regulation making power).

Published in Gazette No 9 of 23 January 1998. page 356 Page 1

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Clause 1 Public Finance and Audit (General) Amendment (Officers of Authorities) Regulation 1998

Public Finance and Audit (General) Amendment

(Officers of Authorities) Regulation 1998

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Public Finance and Audit (General)
Amendment (Officers of Authorities) Regulation 1998.

2 Amendment of Public Finance and Audit (General) Regulation 1995

The Public Finance and Audit (General) Regulation 1995 is

amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

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Public Finance and Audit (General) Amendment	(Officers of Authorities) Regulation 1998
Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clause 17 Definitions of “authority” and “officer of an authority”

Insert after clause 17 (3):

(4)	For the purposes of the definition of officer of an authority in section 4 (1) of the Act, the persons holding the positions in the Central Corporate Services Unit, Department of Public Works and Services that are specified in Part A of the Table to this subclause are prescribed as officers in relation to the authorities specified in Part B of that Table, but only for the purposes of exercising functions under sections 12 and
13 of the Act.
Table Part A
Manager, Financial Services Team Leader Senior Budget/Finance Officer Senior Finance Officer Finance Officer Senior Accounts Officer
Part B
The Treasury The Cabinet Office
Premier’s Department
Parliamentary Counsel’s Office Department of Aboriginal Affairs Ministry for the Arts

Schedule 1 Amendment

Heritage Office

Department of State and Regional Development

Department of Urban Affairs and Planning

Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal

New South Wales Film and Television Office

City West Development Corporation

Honeysuckle Development Corporation

South Sydney Development Corporation

Minister administering the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, being the corporation sole constituted by section 8 (1) of that Act

Minister administering the Heritage Act 1977, being the corporation sole constituted by section 102 of that Act

Office of Marine Administration
Marine Ministerial Holding Corporation
Ministry for Urban Infrastructure Management