✨ Telegraph Account and Voucher Management Regulations
1712
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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(l.) That no payment is made of accounts payable by cheques
issued by the Treasury.
850. Vouchers for authorised payments, if remaining unpaid at
any office at the expiration of three months from date of receipt,
excluding the month of receipt, must be returned to the Accountant,
General Post Office, through the Chief Postmaster. This instruc-
tion applies to all but Treasury vouchers, which must be returned
direct to the Paymaster-General, in accordance with the Treasury
regulations. Prior to the expiration of the three months, a final
notice should be sent to the payee advising him that payment is about
to lapse. In order to facilitate compliance with this rule officers must,
upon receipt, date-stamp on the right-hand top corner of the form all
vouchers sent to them for payment.
851. Unstamped receipts must be refused. The giver of an un-
stamped receipt is liable to a penalty of £10.
852. Vouchers for refund of expenditure amounting to £2 and up-
wards are liable to stamp duty. In such cases the amount of the stamp
may be added to the claim as “Duty-stamp for receipt, 1d.”
853. Charges for all work performed under contract or agreement,
and all supplies purchased from contractors, must be certified to on the
vouchers as being according to agreement or contract, as the case may
be.
854. When sending back challenged vouchers there must always
be inserted, under the heading “Particulars of voucher enclosed,”
on Form Acct. 228, the following: (a) Name of payee; (b) date of
payment; (c) amount paid.
855. A docket on Form Acct. 326 must be sent in with the
relative statement for every voucher held back for query or com-
pletion.
856. In all acknowledgments of telegrams directing payment,
whether from the Accountant, General Post Office, to a Chief Post-
master, or from a Chief Postmaster to a Sub-Postmaster, the amount
authorised to be paid must be quoted.
857. Liabilities must not be allowed to remain unpaid owing to
the dilatoriness of claimants in rendering their accounts. A monthly
settlement is to be insisted upon. For this purpose a running record
of unrendered accounts should be kept by all certifying officers.
858. Statements of receipts and expenditure at temporary tele-
graph-offices must include, in addition to the travelling-expenses now
generally shown, a debit entry in accordance with the following scale
on account of the salaries of the staff engaged in working the office:
Clerks or operators, 12s. per day; linemen, 10s. per day; messengers,
3s. per day.
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