STATUTORY RULES
1965 No. 169
REGULATIONS UNDER THE AUDIT ACT 1901-1964.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Audit Act 1901-1964.
Dated this eighteenth day of November, 1965.
CASEY
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
(SGD.) HAROLD HOLT
Treasurer.
Amendments of the Treasury Regulations†
Definitions.
1. Regulation 4 of the Treasury Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “Chief Accounting Officer”.
2. After regulation 5a of the Treasury Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Chief Accounting Officer.
“5b—(1.) The Minister of State administering a Department may appoint a person to be, for the purposes of these Regulations, the Chief Accounting Officer for that Department in a State or Territory, and a reference in a provision of these Regulations to the Chief Accounting Officer shall, in the application of that provision to, or in relation to, matters arising in that Department in that State or Territory, be read as a reference to the person so appointed.
(2.) The President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives or both, as the case requires, may appoint a person to be, for the purposes of these Regulations, the Chief Accounting Officer for a Department of the Parliament, and a reference in a provision of these Regulations to the Chief Accounting Officer shall, in the application of that provision to or in relation to matters arising in that Department, be read as a reference to the person so appointed.”.
Tenders.
3. Regulation 52 of the Treasury Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (xii) of paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (2.) the word “and”; and
(b) by adding at the end of sub-paragraph (xiii) of paragraph (e) of sub-regulation (2.) the following word and subparagraph:—
“; and (xiv) works of art approved or to be obtained by the Commonwealth Art Advisory Board.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 25 November, 1965.
† Statutory Rules 1942, No. 523, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Treasury Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1965, No.32 and see also Statutory Rules 1965, No. 32.
By Authority: A.J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra
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