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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Amended Treasury Regulations under the Public Revenues Act, 1910.

ISLINGTON, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of March, 1911.

Present:
THE HONOURABLE JAMES CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on him by section three of the Public Revenues Act, 1910, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made under the Public Revenues Act, 1891, on the third day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, and the twenty-sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-second day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, and the sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and five, respectively, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth ; and doth hereby direct that these regulations shall come into force on the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

REGULATIONS.

I. GENERAL.

The financial year.

1. The financial year commences on the 1st day of April, and ends on the 31st day of March.

Bank of New Zealand is the bank referred to.
2. The Bank of New Zealand is hereby appointed the bank in which all public moneys are to be kept, and is referred to in these Regulations as “the bank.”

Of the revenue and expenditure of the financial year.
3. In the public accounts the revenue of any financial year is the money received into the Public Account at the bank at Wellington within the year ; and the expenditure is the money paid at the Treasury within the year, and the money paid by Imprestees, of which the accounts are received at the Treasury within the year. Imprests unaccounted for at the end of a financial year are included in the accounts of the following year.

Officers to account weekly or monthly.
4. Every Receiver, Imprestee, or other person concerned in the receipt or payment of public moneys shall account to the Treasury weekly, unless the Treasury directs him to account at longer periods, not exceeding one month. All accounts shall be made up on the first Saturday, or, in the case of four-weekly accounts, on the fourth Saturday after the beginning of the financial year, and upon every Saturday or fourth Saturday thereafter. And an account shall be made up on the last day of each financial year for the broken period after the then last account.

Names of Accountants in arrear to be sent to the Audit Office.
5. The Treasury shall send to the Audit Office not later than the tenth day of each month a return showing the name of every Accountant or officer who has failed for more than one week after the expiration of the accounting period to send to the Treasury any account or return which he is required to make ; and the Audit Office, on receiving the return, shall act thereupon as provided by section 14 of the Public Revenues Act, 1910 ; and all salaries or moneys that may be, or become, due to the officer who has failed to account may be withheld by the Treasury until his accounts are rendered.

The Treasury may prescribe forms of account-books and accounts.
6. A plan of account-books and accounts, adapted to the requirements of each Department or branch of the public service, shall be designed by the Treasury, in order to exhibit in a convenient form the whole of the receipts and payments in respect of