New Zealand Gazette – 1911 – No. 24

Page 1109

✨ Treasury Regulations



Mar. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1109

TREASURY REGULATIONS.

of receipt shall be printed by the Government Printer, and shall be numbered with consecutive printed numbers for each form of receipt, so that no two receipts of the same form shall have the same number. They shall be issued only by direction of the Audit Office, to which all requisitions from Receivers of Revenue for receipt-forms shall be addressed, and the Government Printer shall forward to the Audit Office a copy of every invoice of books of receipts issued, specifying the name of the Receiver and the first and last printed numbers in each parcel. The Audit Office shall keep a register of the numbers of all receipt-forms sent to and accounted for by each Receiver. Forms spoiled in preparation of receipts must not be destroyed, but must be attached to the next account.

  1. Every Receiver shall prepare such bank receipts as are required for signature at the bank, and shall number them in the proper place on the form consecutively from one upwards.

Duplicate bank receipts must on no account be given by the bank in respect of payments to Public Account.

  1. When moneys are received on account of rents or sales of Government property or otherwise as miscellaneous revenue, full particulars of the authority for such sales, the account sales, tenders, and contracts, if any, and other documents explaining the transactions, must be appended to the accounts of the Receiver.

  2. Moneys received in satisfaction or on account of surcharges must be accompanied by a statement prepared by the officer surcharged, containing full particulars of the transactions in respect of which surcharge was made, together with a reference to the query or other communication directing such surcharge.

OF THE PAYMENT OF MONEYS INTO THE PUBLIC ACCOUNT.

  1. The full amount of all collections, deducting only auctioneers’ and other allowed charges on the sale of public property, and such payments as collectors of revenue are required by special enactment to pay out of their collections, shall be paid into the Public Account at the bank.

  2. Every Receiver whose office is in a place where there is a branch of the bank shall pay the whole of his collections (except as above provided) into the bank day by day, and shall obtain from the bank a receipt in the form in the Second Schedule hereto, and also an acknowledgment in a bank 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.

If the Receiver is in a place where there is no branch of the bank he shall transmit his collections up to the close of business on each Saturday to the nearest branch of the bank, by post-office order, or postal notes, or by registered letter containing bank-notes only, retaining in hand, in the latter case, for the time being, any sum less than one pound.

  1. Every Receiver shall keep a Cash-book in the form in the Third Schedule hereto, or as the Treasury may direct, and shall enter therein in the order of date every sum received and every sum paid into the Public Account. When a sum is received from which a deduction is made, as provided in Regulations 24 and 26, the


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