✨ Old-age Pensions and Public Trust Payments Procedures
1736
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47
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Office, by post or telegraph on matters relating to old-age pensions officers should always quote the number of pension-certificate and the name of the pension-district.
1034. The foregoing instructions, where not inconsistent with the text, will apply equally to chief and sub-offices, and, failing any specific direction to the contrary, the general rules relating to payments out of Post Office Account must be held to apply to payments on account of old-age pensions.
1035. Public Trust Payments.—Payments made on behalf of the Public Trustee may only be made upon the prescribed form, which must bear the authorisation of the Accountant, General Post Office, unless such payment has been authorised by telegraph, when a receipt is to be taken on Form Acct. 227, the particulars given in the telegram being written on the voucher.
1036. Claims stamped “ This voucher may be paid on presentation before due date,” may be paid upon being received at the paying office. Officers must take special care not to accept authorities from claimants in favour of others on any but the prescribed form, supplies of which may be obtained from the Public Trustee or his agents. The Treasury authority forms are not accepted.
1037. Paying officers must insist upon the identity of Maori payees being established in addition to their signatures being witnessed. Paying officers may identify, but must not witness a signature.
1038. Vouchers made payable to Maoris may only be paid to the payees personally, except when a direction to pay to another person is written across the face of the voucher by the Public Trust Office. Authorities signed by Maoris on Treasury authority forms or any other authority form are not recognised.
1039. Vouchers may on no account be returned direct to the Public Trustee; but if from any cause it may be necessary to return them, they must be forwarded through the Chief Postmaster of the district to the Accountant, General Post Office.
1040. Special certificates on the face of Public Trust vouchers which require the signature of the payee, or of a solicitor, must be signed before payment is effected.
1041. When upon the request of the claimant a voucher is transferred to a money-order office other than that at which it was originally made payable, such transfer should in no case be made without the sanction of the Chief Postmaster, who will report the transfer to the Accountant, General Post Office.
1042. In all correspondence relative to Public Trust vouchers, the “ Pay List No.” should be quoted. This will always be found stated at the head of each voucher.
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