β¨ Order in Council Regulations
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 611
G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this
twenty-ninth day of June, 1872.
Present :
THE HONORABLE WILLIAM FOX, PRIME MINISTER,
PRESIDING, AND MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE
COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by "The Public Revenues Act, 1867,"
it is, among other things, enacted that it shall
be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of
the said Act, directing the manner in which, and the
times at which, and the Bank or Banks into which
all moneys shall be paid into the Public Account,
and for the return of full and sufficient accounts
relating to all such moneys, and for the guidance of
all persons in the Public Service concerned in the
receipt, custody, and expenditure thereof, and all
such regulations shall be published in the New Zea-
land Gazette, and shall come into force upon a day to
be named therein: And whereas by "The Public
Revenues Act, 1868," it is enacted that it shall be
lawful for the Governor in Council from time to
time to alter or rescind any regulations made under
the authority of "The Public Revenues Act, 1867,"
or of the now reciting Act, and to make other regu-
lations not inconsistent with "The Public Revenues
Act, 1867," in the place thereof, and that all such
regulations shall be published in the New Zealand
Gazette, and shall come into force upon a day to be
named therein: And whereas by an Order in Coun-
cil made under the provisions of the hereinbefore
in part recited Acts, on the second day of December,
1868, (among other things) the regulations contained
in the Schedule thereto were made and ordained to
take effect as therein mentioned: And whereas it is
expedient that certain of the said regulations should
be rescinded, and that other regulations should be
made in the place thereof:
Now therefore, His Excellency Sir George Fergu-
son Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New
Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Colony, and in pursu-
ance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in him by the hereinbefore in part recited
Acts, or one of them, doth hereby rescind the several
regulations, Nos. 4, 5, 11, 12, and 14, and contained
in the Schedule to the hereinbefore in part recited
Order in Council: And in further pursuance and
exercise of all powers and authorities vested in him
for that purpose as aforesaid, and with the like advice
and consent as aforesaid, his said Excellency doth
hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule
hereto, and doth order that the same shall, from and
after the date fixed for their coming into force, be
read in their respective order as if the same had been
originally contained in the Schedule to the herein-
before in part recited Order in Council: And lastly,
in further pursuance and exercise of all powers and
authorities vested in him for that purpose under the
hereinbefore in part recited Acts, and with the like
advice and consent as aforesaid, his said Excellency
doth hereby order that this present Order in Council,
and the Regulations hereby made, shall come into
force upon the first day of August, 1872.
WILLIAM Fox,
Presiding.
FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
SCHEDULE.
In lieu of rescinded Regulations, Nos. 4, 5, 11, 12,
and 14.
- Every Receiver whose office is in a place in
which there is a branch of the Bank shall pay the
whole of his collections into the Bank every day
immediately before the Bank closes, and shall
obtain from the Bank a receipt, in the form in the
First Schedule annexed, and a receipt in an Office
Pass Book; and should he receive any money
after the time when it would have been possible
to pay it into the Bank, the Receiver shall pay in
such money with his collections of the following
day. Every Receiver whose office is in a place
where there is no branch of the Bank, and who
shall not be authorized to retain fees received by
him by way of salary, shall transmit the whole of
his collections up to the close of business on
Saturday, to the Bank at Wellington, by Post
Office Order or by Registered Letter, on every
succeeding Monday, with form of Bank Receipt,
and the Bank will transmit such Bank Receipt
to the Receiver-General, sending also a letter of
acknowledgment to the Receiver.
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In cases in which a Receiver is authorized
to retain fees received by him by way of salary, he
shall, upon the last Monday of each month, send
to the Bank at Wellington an order in the form
in the Second Schedule annexed, upon the Pay-
master-General, in favour of the Public Account,
for the total amount of all fees so received and
retained by him from the date of his last account
up to the close of business on the previous
Saturday, and shall at the same time transmit
to the Paymaster-General a receipt for salary to
the amount named in such order; and the Pay-
master-General, receiving such receipt, shall pay
the order at the Bank; and the Bank will
transmit the Bank Receipt to the Receiver-
General. -
Every Receiver shall keep a "Receiver's
Cash Book," in the form in the Fourth Schedule
annexed (which will be modified so as to suit the
several departments of receipt), in which he shall
enter in the debit columns all sums received by
him and paid to the Bank, under their proper
dates, in the order in which they are received,
carrying out the totals; and shall enter in the
credit column the amounts of his payments into
the Bank in the same order, and the number of
the Bank Receipt; and every Receiver shall
balance his Cash Book at the close of every
week, and shall carry out at the foot the totals of
receipt and payment, and see that the totals
balance. In every case in which a sum is received
from which a deduction is made as provided by
the second of these Regulations, the Receiver
shall enter the gross sum received and the amount
of the deduction, each in its proper column. He
shall then carry out the net sum into the proper
column of totals. Sums received by way of
deposit, and paid into the Receiver's Deposit
Account, must not be entered in the Cash Book,
as they will appear in the Deposit Cash Book
as provided by the tenth of these Regulations. -
Every Receiver shall, upon each and every
Monday, make and post for transmission to the
Receiver-General a correct copy of his Cash Book
for the previous week, showing all transactions to
the close of the Bank on Saturday, and shall
transmit therewith the Bank Receipt for each
payment made into the Bank, together with a
Declaration in the form set forth in the Fourth
Schedule annexed. If no money shall have been
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π° Order in Council amending Public Revenue Regulations
π° Finance & Revenue29 June 1872
Order in Council, Public Revenues Act, Regulations, Bank deposits, Receivers, Cash Book
- G. F. Bowen, Governor
- The Honorable William Fox, Prime Minister, Presiding
- Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council
NZ Gazette 1872, No 33