Treasury Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1911. No. 104.

 

TREASURY REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUDIT ACTS 1901-1906.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following amendments of the Treasury Regulations under the Audit Acts 1901-1906 to come into operation forthwith. Such amendments shall supersede the Provisional Regulations (Statutory Rules 1910, No. 128) under the said Acts made on the 18th day of November, 1910.

Dated this 6th day of July, One thousand nine hundred and eleven.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

C. E. FRAZER,

For the Treasurer.

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Clause 22 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“The Heads of Revenue shall be—

(a) Customs.

(b) Excise.

(c) Post Office, Telegraph, and Telephone.

(d) Land Tax.

(e) Defence.

(f) Patents.

(g) Trade Marks, Copyrights and Designs.

(h) Quarantine.

(i) Repayment of States’ Proportion of Pensions.

(j) Transfer from Pension Funds.

(k) Coinage.

(l) Northern Territory.

(m) Miscellaneous.

(n) Such other Heads as shall from time to time be determined by the Treasurer.”

Clause 78 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“All reimbursement and adjustment Accounts shall contain references to the registration numbers of the supporting vouchers. All advance, reimbursement, adjustment, transfer accounts and accounts in Form 29a shall be copied by the Authorizing Officer into a press ‘copy book.’”

     

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Clause 80 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“When any amount entered in the column, ‘Accounts passed for payment,’ is included in a Reimbursement or Adjustment Account, it is to be ‘marked off’ by entering in the next column the registration number of such Reimbursement or Adjustment Account. An Advance or Transfer Account or a Repayment or Adjustment Credit or an account in Form 29a should also be marked off in the same column by writing the word ‘Advance,’ ‘Transfer,’ ‘Credit,’ or ‘Form 29a,’ as the case may be.”

Clause 81 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“As well as being entered or marked off in the Appropriation Ledger as previously described, every Advance, Reimbursement, Adjustment, Transfer Account, account in Form 29a and Repayment to Advances or to the expenditure of the current year, shall be entered on Reconciliation Sheets (Form 21a), each head of Expenditure being set out separately. At the end of every month these sheets shall be reconciled with the Appropriation Ledger, and duplicates of the sheets immediately forwarded to the Secretary to the Treasury.’’

A new clause, clause 107a, reading as follows, is inserted after clause 107:—

107a. “Moneys payable in respect of Invalid and Old-age Pensions, Inter-State Money Order business and Inter-State Transfers of International Postal and Money Order business shall be paid from the Commonwealth Public Account into the Money Order Account. An amount payable under this clause shall be included in an account, in Form 29a, which, when duly certified shall be forwarded to the Sub-Treasury, accompanied by Form 18, signed by the Authorizing Officer. In connexion with any adjustment of an advance made to the Money Order Account or in connexion with any repayment of such advance, Form 31 or 32, verbally altered as required, shall be used.”

Clause 117 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“The Sub-Treasury Paymaster shall, if so authorized by an Authorizing Officer (Form 18), sign cheques drawn on the Commonwealth Public Account, and shall pay such cheques to the credit of Departmental Advance Accounts or Money Order Accounts. Every such cheque shall be countersigned by the Sub-Treasury Accountant, and between parallel lines there shall be written or stamped on the cheque the name of the bank into which the cheque is to be paid, together with the name of the account to be credited by the bank with the amount.”

Clause 118 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“No accounts other than Advances, Reimbursements, and Accounts referred to in clauses 107a, 125, and 126 shall be paid by a Sub-Treasury Paymaster.”

Clause 120 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“The Sub-Treasury Paymaster shall forward in Form 30 to the Paying Officer a notification that such amount has been paid to the credit of the Departmental Advance Account. In the case of a payment to the Money Order Account, Form 30, altered verbally as required, shall be forwarded to the Deputy Postmaster-General.”

 

Clause 125 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“The Sub-Treasury Accountant shall from time to time authorize the Sub-Treasury Paymaster to pay moneys to the State, if so directed by the Secretary to the Treasury. Cheques for payments to the State shall be crossed and made payable to the order of the proper State officer.”

Clause 126 is repealed, and the following clause substituted:—

“Warrant Authority (Form 22) shall not be required for payments to States under the Surplus Revenue Act nor for transfer of Money in the Commonwealth Public Account from one State to another.’’

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Form No. 29a (Clause 107a).

The Commonwealth Public Account.

Dr. to the Money Order Account.

Head of expenditure to which the account is chargeable—

For pounds shillings

and pence (£: : ).

Being the amount

*of advance approved by the Treasurer.

*of reimbursement of expenditure as shown in vouchers forwarded to the Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.

*due in respect of 

Signature of Claimant‡

Deputy Postmaster-General.

Date

I certify that this account is correct. I direct that the amount be paid to the credit of the Money Order Account at the Bank of at

*Deputy Postmaster-General.

*Deputy Commissioner of Pensions.

Date

(Bank receipt for payment of the account to be attached hereto by the Sub-Treasury Paymaster.)

* Strike out what is inapplicable.

  Insert here particulars relating to Inter-State Money Order business, or Inter-State Transfers of International business.

‡ Signature of claimant may be omitted if account certified by Deputy Postmaster-General.

 

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