New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC FINANCE AND AUDIT ACT 1983 - SECT 12A

12A Minister may delegate or authorise other Ministers to delegate expenditure of money appropriated etc to Minister

(1) A Minister to whom a sum of money is appropriated out of the Consolidated Fund for a use or purpose (whether by an annual Appropriation Act or other Act) may:

(a) delegate to another Minister or to an officer of any authority, or

(b) authorise another Minister to delegate to an officer of any authority,

the committing or incurring of expenditure from the sum so appropriated.

(2) A Minister who is authorised to make payments for a use or purpose from any account in the Special Deposits Account may:

(a) delegate to another Minister or to an officer of any authority, or

(b) authorise another Minister to delegate to an officer of any authority,

the committing or incurring of expenditure from the money in that account.

(3) This section has effect for the purposes of section 12 and any other law of the State.