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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

'Receiver to forward copy of cash-book to Receiver-General.

Nil returns.

Fees retained in lieu of salary.

Fees, fines, and penalties under certain Acts to be paid to local bodies by Receivers.

Quarterly return to be sent to Treasury of fees, &c., collected in stamps.

Receipts to be entered in cash-book, and statements rendered to local bodies concerned.

Receipts to be paid daily to Deposit Account in name of Receiver.

Receiver to repay deposits by cheque. Deposit to be returned when transaction completed.

Deposits unclaimed for a year.

headings the amount brought forward will form the first item of receipt.

24. Every Receiver shall prepare and post for transmission to the Receiver-General, by the first mail leaving after each Saturday, a correct copy of so much of his Cash-book as he has not previously sent, accompanied by the bank receipt for each payment into the bank, and by the certified copies of the receipts given to the persons from whom he received the moneys, together with a declaration in the form set forth in the Third Schedule hereto.

When any deduction is made from any sum receivable, the Receiver shall furnish full accounts and vouchers in support of such deduction.

25. If no money has been received in any accounting period the Receiver shall forward to the Receiver-General a “Nil” return, signed and attested in the form provided.

26. In cases in which a Receiver is authorised to retain fees received by him by way of salary, he shall make up his Cash-book to the close of business on the last day of every calendar month, and forward to the Receiver-General a copy of so much thereof as he has not previously sent, accompanied by a salary abstract, as provided by the seventy-seventh Regulation, properly certified and receipted, for the amount of fees collected and retained by him during the period for which he is accounting.

OF THE PAYMENT OF REVENUE TO LOCAL BODIES.

27. All fees, fines, and penalties received or recovered and payable under the provisions of “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” “The Counties Act, 1886,” “The Public Works Act, 1876,” and “The Financial Arrangements Act, 1876,” or other Acts or Ordinances, to any local body (excepting such fees, fines, or penalties as may be lawfully collected by means of stamps), shall be paid daily by the Receiver to the account of the local body at the bank at which such account is kept.

In respect of fees, fines, or penalties collected by means of stamps on behalf of local authorities, a return in the form of the Fourth Schedule hereto shall be prepared and sent to the Treasury immediately after the last day of each quarter. Such return shall include all moneys payable to local authorities which have been received in stamps during the previous three months.

28. In the case of any county in which the whole of “The Counties Act, 1886,” is not in force, moneys payable to the county are to be paid into the Public Account in accordance with section 147 of “The Counties Act, 1886.”

29. All such receipts and payments shall be entered in the Cash-book of the Receiver in the proper columns, and shall be supported by vouchers, as provided by the sixteenth Regulation; and the Receiver shall transmit weekly to the Town Clerk, the County Treasurer, or the Chairman of the Road Board or other local authority, as the case may be, a statement showing in detail the several sums collected during the week on behalf of the local body concerned.

OF DEPOSITS.

Of Deposits on Account of Revenue.

30. Every Receiver who receives money by way of deposit on account of revenue shall pay all such moneys day by day into the bank to a separate account in his own name, to be called “The Deposit Account of the [naming his office].” The Receiver shall give to the depositor a receipt in the form set forth in the Fifth Schedule hereto, of which he shall also sign two certified copies for use as indicated in the sixteenth Regulation, and he shall obtain from the bank a receipt in the form in the Sixth Schedule hereto, and also an acknowledgment of the same in a bank pass-book.

31. The Receiver shall make payments out of his Deposit Account only by cheque, countersigned by such public officer as the Receiver-General directs and notifies to the bank.

32. As soon as the transaction on account of which a deposit was made is completed, the Receiver shall return the deposit, or balance of the deposit, to the depositor, who shall give up his deposit receipt for the same, receipted on the proper place in the form. If such deposit receipt is lost, the depositor shall give a receipt for the amount refunded to him on a receipt form, as provided by the sixteenth Regulation.

33. Deposits unclaimed for more than one year after becoming payable to the depositor are to be paid into the Public Account,