Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1980 No. 92 FINANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 4

4. Regulation 47 of the Finance Regulations is amended-

   (a)  by omitting sub-regulation (1) and substituting the following
        sub-regulation:

"(1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), a Requisition for supplies shall-

   (a)  where a payment in respect of the supplies is to be made during the
        financial year that is current when the Requisition is prepared-be
        supported by a certificate signed by a prescribed officer in relation
        to the Requisition certifying-

        (i)    that there is sufficient appropriation to meet the payment; or

        (ii)   that the obligation in pursuance of which the supplies are
               required was incurred with the approval of the Minister; and

   (b)  where a payment in respect of the supplies is to be made after the end
        of the financial year that is current when the Requisition is
        prepared-be supported by a certificate signed by a prescribed officer
        in relation to the Requisition certifying-

        (i)    that sufficient appropriation will be available to meet the
               payment; or

        (ii)   that the payment is an exempt payment."; and

   (b)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

"(3) A prescribed officer in relation to a Requisition for supplies shall not,
for the purposes of sub-regulation (1)-

   (a)  certify that there is sufficient appropriation to meet a payment that
        is to be made in respect of the supplies during the financial year
        that is current when the Requisition is prepared unless-

        (i)    moneys have been appropriated under a head of expenditure in an
               Appropriation Act for the current financial year that are
               sufficient to meet the payment and all other payments that have
               been met, or may reasonably be expected to be met during that
               financial year, from that head of expenditure;

        (ii)   provision for such an appropriation has been included in a
               proposed law submitted to the Parliament; or

        (iii)  moneys standing to the credit of the Trust Fund under the head
               to which expenditure in respect of the supplies is chargeable
               will, at such time as the payment is required to be made, be
               sufficient to pay the amount of the payment;

   (b)  certify that sufficient appropriation will be available to meet a
        payment that is to be made in respect of the supplies after the end of
        the financial year that is current when the Requisition is prepared
        unless the Minister has given, for the purposes of paragraph 44A (1)
        (d), an approval in respect of the payment; or

   (c)  certify that a payment referred to in paragraph (b) is an exempt
        payment unless the obligation in pursuance of which the supplies are
        required is specified in, or is included in a class of obligations
        that is specified in, a declaration made by the Minister under
        sub-regulation 44A (3).



"(4) In sub-regulation (1), "prescribed officer"-

   (a)  in relation to a Requisition for supplies of a kind referred to in
        paragraph 46 (1) (a)-means the Permanent Head of the Department of
        Housing and Construction or an authorized officer; and

   (b)  in relation to any other Requisition-means the Permanent Head of the
        Department requiring the supplies or an authorized officer.".