Claims for
salaries and
allowances may
be included in
one account if
classified.

Certain claims
must be
audited before
payment.

The Treasury
may withhold
payment of any
claim which is
considered
incorrect.

Register of
claims
received to
be kept.

Officers
responsible
for errors.

Abstract to
show branch
of bank, &c.

Payments to
be made by
cheque of
Paymaster-
General.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

TREASURY REGULATIONS.

69. With a view to diminish the number of abstracts, claims for
    salaries and allowances may be included in one account in the form
    in the Thirteenth Schedule; provided that the items in the account
    are classified in accordance with the terms of the appropriation, fund,
    or account to which the claims are severally chargeable.

Upon every abstract must be noted the date on which it was
received by the certifying officer, and also at the head office in Wel-
lington.

70. No vouchers in respect of any payments which are not pro-
    vided for in the annual appropriations, other than salaries and pen-
    sions for which there is permanent appropriation, shall be included
    in any requisition until and unless they have first been submitted to
    and passed by the Audit Office. (Subsection (6), section 52, Public
    Revenues Act, 1910.)

71. If it appears to the Secretary to the Treasury that any claim
    is for a purpose not included in the appropriation, or that it is in
    excess of the amount for which authority has been given, or that the
    amount or any part thereof has been previously paid, or that there is
    any other error therein, he shall withhold payment and submit the
    account to the Controller and Auditor-General for his decision..

72. A register of abstracts in the form in the Fifteenth Schedule
    shall be kept in each Department, in which shall be entered every
    abstract sent in to it for payment, arranged in the alphabetical order
    of the several claimants. The register shall show the dates on which
    each abstract was received in the Department, and on which it was
    sent on for payment; and the dates on which, if returned for cor-
    rection or otherwise, it was so returned, and re-sent for payment. It
    shall also be noted therein whether each claim is paid or cancelled.
    Abstracts for salaries shall be registered under the official designation
    of the certifying officers.

73. Officers certifying to abstracts will be held responsible for all
    errors in calculation, and will be surcharged with the amount of any
    deficiency or loss.

All officers who incur or authorize expenditure will be held re-
sponsible for the exercise of due economy, and overcharges in respect
of supplies or services which may have been paid will have to be
made good by them.

Authorizing officers will be held responsible that the sum named
in any voucher is charged against the proper vote, appropriation,
fund, or account provided by Parliament for same, and that the
expenditure has been duly authorized by the Minister administering
the Department.

74. Every abstract shall show the name of the officer appointed
    to countersign the cheque, and the branch of the bank on which the
    cheque is to be drawn.

75. Except where payments are directed to be made by an Im-
    prestee, or through the Post Office by a certifying officer, all claims
    on the Public Account will be paid by cheque of the Paymaster-
    General drawn on the branch of the bank which is nearest to the resi-
    dence of the payee, and will be sent to him from the Treasury direct.
    Such cheques will become payable only on being countersigned by
    an officer appointed to do so.