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Interpretation Act

(Chapter 1, Section 36)

Delegation of Powers
(Ministry of Finance) (Consolidation) Notification

N 6

G.N. No. S 21/1983

REVISED EDITION 2000

(31st August 2000)

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 36 of the Interpretation Act, the Minister for Finance, with the approval of the President, hereby makes the following Notification:

Citation

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

Definitions

2. For the purposes of this Notification —

“accounting officer” means any public officer who is appointed by any Permanent Secretary to 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;

“Establishment List” means the list laid before Parliament under section 17(2) of the Financial Procedure Act (Cap. 109).

Officers deputed to exercise certain budgetary powers

3.—(1) The Minister for Finance, with the approval of the President, hereby deputes any accounting officer to exercise the power conferred upon the Minister by section 4(2) 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.

(2) The Minister for Finance, with the approval of the President, hereby also deputes —

(a)

the Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Directors and Deputy Directors of the Ministry of Finance to exercise the powers conferred by section 17(3) of the Financial Procedure Act (Cap. 109) in respect of all posts in the Establishment List except political appointments; and

(b)

the accounting officers of all Ministries and Organs of State to exercise the powers conferred by section 17(3) of the Financial Procedure Act except that —

(i)	the addition or alteration to the Establishment List shall not result in an increase in the total number of political appointments whose salaries and other emoluments are to be met from the allocations of funds under the head of expenditure; and
(ii)	the addition or alteration to the Establishment List shall not result in an increase in the total expenditure under the head of expenditure.

Persons deputed to exercise Minister’s other powers under various Acts

4. The Minister for Finance, with the approval of the President, hereby deputes the persons and public officers set out in the first column of the Schedule to exercise the powers of the Minister set out in the second column thereof.