✨ Treasury Regulations
Jan. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 139
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Deposits in the custody of the Receiver-General, when return-
able to depositors, shall be refunded on the certificate of the head
of the Department. In all cases of refund a receipt for the same shall
be given by the depositor. -
In all cases the deposits received shall be brought on charge
in the Deposit Cash-book of the Receiver, who shall take credit for
the amounts refunded to depositors, or paid to the Receiver-General's
Deposit Account or to the Public Account. -
Whenever any deposit becomes forfeited the amount, if in
the custody of the Receiver, shall be paid to the Public Account,
a bank receipt for the payment and a memorandum of particulars
being transmitted to the Receiver-General. If any such deposit is
in the custody of the Receiver-General, a notification of the forfeiture
shall be forwarded to his office, in order that the amount may be
transferred to the Public Account. -
The Deposit Cash-book shall be made up on the last day of
each accounting period, or at such longer intervals, not exceeding one
calendar month, as the Receiver-General may direct, and a copy or
abstract on the form provided for the purpose shall be posted to the
Receiver-General, supported by the bank receipts and the receipts
of the depositors for all sums refunded. If no deposit is received or
refunded during any accounting period, a “Nil” return shall be
forwarded. -
The balance in the custody of the Receiver shall be supported
by a statement, to be furnished every accounting period, with the copy
or abstract of the Deposit Cash-book.
Law Trust Moneys.
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Every officer receiving law trust moneys shall keep a Law
Trust Cash-book in the form in the Seventh Schedule hereto. Under
the head of “Receipts” he shall enter all such moneys coming into
his hands under the proper date and in the order in which they are
received, each entry being supported by a receipt in the form in the
Eighth Schedule hereto, and duly certified. -
The Receiver shall day by day pay all moneys as above
received before the close of business, and which have not been paid
to the persons entitled to receive them, into the bank to credit of
an account called “The Law Trust Account of the [Naming his office
and Court].” Any moneys received after bank hours shall be lodged
in the bank on the following day. -
Where an officer holds appointment under more than one
Court he shall keep a Law Trust Cash-book and a Law Trust Account
at the bank for each Court separately, or for all the Courts in one,
as the Receiver-General may direct. -
All sums disbursed shall be entered on the date and in the order
of payment, and every such entry shall be vouched for by a receipt
in the form in the Ninth Schedule hereto.
Regulation 46 shall apply to law trust moneys.
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The Law Trust Cash-book shall be made up at the close of
business at the end of each accounting period, or at such longer
intervals, not exceeding one calendar month, as the Receiver-General
may direct, and the balance, if any, carried forward to the succeeding
period. The balance must be stated so as to show the amount in the
bank, the amount of unpresented cheques, and the moneys received
after bank hours. -
Every officer shall, by the first mail leaving after each
accounting period, post to the Receiver-General a carbon copy,
or abstract of so much of his Law Trust Cash-book as he has not
previously sent, and shall transmit therewith a certificate by the
bank of the balance at credit of his account, a statement in the form
set forth in the Seventh Schedule hereto, the vouchers for the receipts
and disbursements of the period, and a list of the unpresented cheques.
If there have been no transactions during the period a “Nil” return
shall be forwarded. -
The Receiver-General may at any time require that any sum
of money which has been paid into a Law Trust Account shall be paid
into the Receiver-General’s Deposit Account, and the Receiver shall,
when so directed, pay the amount to the bank for credit of the
Receiver-General’s Deposit Account at Wellington, and shall obtain
from the bank a receipt in the form in the Fifth Schedule hereto,
which he shall forthwith forward to the Receiver-General, together
with a memorandum of advice of the lodgment.
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Treasury Regulations relative to the Public Accounts
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💰 Finance & Revenue23 December 1919
Regulations, Public Accounts, Financial Year, Bank of New Zealand, Deposit Account, Cash-book, Receiver-General
NZ Gazette 1920, No 2