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Public Revenues Act 1906 (No 2)

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Short Title.

Payment of salaries, &c., and increments.

Departmental audit rescinded.

Power to temporarily transfer from one account to another.

Public Revenues Act 1906 (No 2)

Public Act		1906 No 22
Date of assent		23 October 1906

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Payment of salaries, &c., and increments.
3	Departmental audit rescinded.
4	Power to temporarily transfer from one account to another.

An Act to amend “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act is “The Public Revenues Act, 1906 (No. 2)”; and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Public Revenues Act, 1891” (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”).

2 Payment of salaries, &c., and increments.

(1.)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act or any amendment thereof, the following provisions shall have effect:—

(a.)

The extended appropriation provided by section three of “The Public Revenues Acts Amendment Act, 1896,” shall be available for the payment of—

(i.)

The statutory increments of salaries, wages, and allowances accruing due pursuant to any Act providing for the classification of any Department of the public service:

(ii.)

Salaries, wages, and allowances accruing due pursuant to any item appearing in the estimates as passed by the House of Representatives and included in the total of a vote in the Appropriation Act, and the payment whereof to the extent of the total sum of the item voted is provided for by section three of “The Public Revenues Acts Amendment Act, 1900”:

(iii.)

Salaries, wages, and allowances, or increments thereto, lawfully granted by the Government during the financial year or period or the three months thereafter, and not included in subparagraph (i) or (ii) hereof.

(b.)

In no case shall any of the payments referred to in subparagraph (i), (ii), or (iii) hereof be deemed to be in excess of the scale set forth in the Appropriation Act and estimates, or to alter any salary or other charge fixed by permanent Act; and section three of “The Public Revenues Acts Amendment Act, 1896,” and section four of “The Public Revenues Acts Amendment Act, 1900,” shall be construed accordingly.

(c.)

In no case shall any of the payments referred to in subparagraph (ii) hereof be deemed to exceed the total sum of the item voted; and section three of the last-mentioned Act shall be construed accordingly.

(d.)

The payments referred to in subparagraph (iii) hereof may be made notwithstanding that they are for services for which provision was not made in the Appropriation Act or the estimates; and the second proviso to subsection one of section three of “The Public Revenues Acts Amendment Act, 1896,” shall be construed accordingly.

Repeal.

(2.)

This section is in substitution for section four of “The Public Revenues Acts Amendment Act, 1898,” which section is hereby accordingly repealed.

3 Departmental audit rescinded.

(1.)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the principal Act or any amendment thereof, or any Order in Council thereunder, the accounts of the receipt of revenue in every Department shall be audited by the Audit Office.

(2.)

Section thirty-one of the principal Act is hereby modified in so far as it conflicts with this enactment, and section four of “The Public Revenues Act, 1892,” is hereby repealed.

4 Power to temporarily transfer from one account to another.

(1.)

The Treasury may from time to time transfer any balances of the Public Account, or any part thereof, from one fund or account to another fund or account within the Public Account, for such periods and on such terms as the Governor in Council may authorise.

(2.)

The moneys so transferred shall be considered as a liability of the fund or account into which the transfer has been made, and shall be paid out and restored to the fund or account from which the transfer was made within three months of the date of transfer.

(3.)

All such transfers shall be laid before Parliament, if sitting, or if not sitting, then within ten days after the commencement of the first ensuing session thereof.

Public Revenues Act 1906 (No 2)