✨ Treasury Regulations
Mar. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1117
TREASURY REGULATIONS.
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The abstracts in respect of which cheques are issued will be sent to the countersigning officer, who shall obtain the receipt of the payee thereon, and return the abstract direct to the Treasury. It is the duty of the countersigning officer before countersigning any cheque—
(1.) To satisfy himself of the identity of the person presenting the cheque;
(2.) To see that the final certificate on the abstract is filled in and signed;
(3.) That the number of the cheque coincides with that quoted in the abstract;
(4.) That the acquittance at the foot of the abstract is properly filled in, duly receipted by the payee or his authorized agent, and is stamped as required by law;
(5.) That the authority for payment to the agent, if any, is in proper form, and is stamped as required by law.
Failure to do so will render him liable to be surcharged for the amount improperly vouched for. -
Claimants unable to present their cheques or give receipts in person may obtain countersignature on the authority of an order in one or other of the forms in the Sixteenth Schedule hereto. In the case of companies these orders must be signed by two directors or the managing director. The special order must be on or attached to the abstract in each case. The general order will be recorded in the Treasury; but no payment will be made thereunder unless it is noted on the abstract that the money is payable to the agent named in the order; and the countersigning officer shall not sign the cheque unless the Treasury record number of the order is quoted on the abstract. Such orders are for the purpose and convenience of claimants, and have no monetary value other than as an authority to receive payment which may be revoked at the pleasure of the claimant.
In the case of a “Special” or “General” authority given by a Maori, it must be certified on the authority by a Licensed Interpreter that he has translated the contents of the authority, and that the Maori understands the same.
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Payments may be made to persons authorized to receive money as attorney, executor, or administrator, on the production of the power of attorney, probate of the will, or letters of administration; and the countersigning officer shall note on the abstract that such instrument has been produced to him, and the date thereof; and, in case of a power of attorney, he shall satisfy himself that it has not been revoked.
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The mark of any payee unable to write, and the mark or signature of every Maori, must be witnessed by a European other than the countersigning officer. The Treasury, however, may exempt Maoris who can read and write English from the operation of this Regulation and of Regulation 77.
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The countersigning officer must return all abstracts, when duly receipted, direct to the Treasury by the first following mail. In the event of it being necessary to send an abstract out of his office in order to obtain a proper acquittance, it shall be the duty of the countersigning officer to keep a record of the same with the view of its being completed and returned to the Treasury.
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NZ Gazette 1911, No 24
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