Delegation of Powers (Ministry of Finance) Notification

Status:

Revised Edition
published on 25 Mar 1992

Interpretation Act

(CHAPTER 1, Section 36(1))

Delegation of Powers (Ministry of
Finance) Notification

N 2

G.N. No. S 145/1982

REVISED EDITION 1990

(25th March 1992)

[15th May 1982]

Citation

1. This Notification may be cited as the Delegation of Powers (Ministry of Finance) Notification.

Definitions

2. For the purposes of this Notification —

“accounting officer” means any public officer who is appointed by the Permanent Secretary, Budget Division of the Ministry of Finance, to account for the management of funds voted under specified heads of the estimates of expenditure;

“approving authority” means any person or committee authorised by the Minister for Finance to consider and approve proposals involving expenditure chargeable to the Development Estimates.

Accounting officers

3. The Minister hereby deputes any accounting officer to exercise the power conferred upon the Minister by section 4(5) of the Development Fund Act [Cap. 80] except where the transfer of funds is for the purpose of supplementing or creating a subhead which relates to loans or capital grants or to any expenditure not previously approved by any Approving Authority.

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