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1883. NEW ZEALAND.

TREASURY REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.

Presented to both Souses of the General Assembly pursuant to Section 5 of " The Public Revenues Act, 1878."

Wm. f. drummond jervois, Governor. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of April. 1883. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. HIS Excellency the Governor in Council hereby directs that the following Regulations, made in pursuance of section 5 of "The Public Revenues Act, 1878," shall come into operation on and after the second day of April, 1883, upon and after which day all Regulations now in force shall be repealed. I. GENERAL. 1. The financial year commences on the first day of April, and ends on the 31st day of March. 2. The Bank of New Zealand is the bank in which all public moneys are to be kept, and is referred to in these Regulations as " the bank." 3. In the public accounts the revenue of any financial year is the money received into the Public Account at the bank at Wellington within the year; and the expenditure is the money paid at the Treasury within the year, and the money paid by imprestees, of which the accounts are received at the Treasury within the year. Imprests unaccounted for at the end of a financial year are included in the accounts of the following year. 4. Every Receiver, Imprestee, or other person concerned in the receipt or payment of public moneys shall account to the Treasury weekly, unless the Treasury directs him to account at longer periods, not exceeding four weeks. All accounts shall be made up on the first Saturday, or, in the case of four-weekly accounts, on the fourth Saturday after the beginning of the financial year, and upon every Saturday or fourth Saturday thereafter. And an account shall be made up on the last day of each financial year for the broken period after the then last account.

The financial year.

Bank of New Zealand is the bank referred to.

Of the revenue and expenditure of the financial year*

Officers to ac» count weekly or fourweekly.