FINANCE (OVERSEAS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1981 NO. 63 

FINANCE (OVERSEAS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1981 NO. 63 
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1981 No. 63 FINANCE (OVERSEAS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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  Regulation 29 of the Finance (Overseas) Regulations is repealed and the
following regulation substituted:
Advances
  "29. (1) The paymaster for an accounting office or the cashier for an
overseas office shall not pay an amount, or cause or permit an amount to be
paid, by way of an advance unless that payment has been authorized by an
overseas authorizing officer.
  "(2) An overseas authorizing officer shall not authorize a payment under
sub-regulation (1) unless-
  (a)  an overseas certifying officer has certified that the payment may
properly be made; and
  (b)  the payment is an advance specified in sub-regulation (3).

  "(3) The advances referred to in paragraph (2) (b) are advances of the
following kinds:

  (a)  an advance to a paymaster for an accounting office or a cashier for an
overseas office to enable him to pay accounts in cash, to purchase stamps or
postal orders or to cash cheques for payees;
  (b)  an advance to an officer for cash expenditure or to enable change to be
given in connection with the receipt of public moneys;
  (c)  an advance to an officer to enable him to make a payment by way of an
advance to another officer, or to pay to the other officer an amount due to
the other officer, in respect of-
      (i)  salary, wages or a payment in the nature of salary or wages;
     (ii)  a sustenance, living or other allowance;
     (iii)  a travelling allowance or travelling expenses; or
     (iv)  medical or dental expenses;
  (d)  an advance to an officer in respect of-
      (i)  salary, wages or a payment in the nature of salary or wages;
     (ii)  a sustenance, living or other allowance;
     (iii)  a travelling allowance or travelling expenses;
     (iv)  medical or dental expenses; or
     (v)  any other allowance that, under the terms and conditions of his
employment, is payable to the officer in relation to his service outside
Australia;
  (e)  an advance of a kind approved by the Secretary for the purposes of this
regulation.

  "(4) A person who receives an advance of a kind referred to in paragraph (3)
        (a), (b), (c) or (e) shall not use the advance for a purpose other than the
purpose for which the advance is made.".


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1981 No. 63*1* FINANCE (OVERSEAS) REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 April 1981.
*2* Statutory Rules 1980 No. 101 as amended by 1980 No. 235.