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Town Councils (Accounting) Regulations
Cap. 87s10 · Revised Edition 2020 · 59 sections
- s. 1Citation
- s. 2Responsibilities
- s. 3Town Administrator to assist Mayor
- s. 4Responsibilities of Town Administrator
- s. 5Town Administrator, etc., answerable to Council
- s. 6Control of expenditure
- s. 7Draft annual estimates
- s. 8Accounts of revenue and expenditure
- s. 9Record of transactions
- s. 10Payments
- s. 11Advances and loans
- s. 12Bank account
- s. 13Expenditure
- s. 14Receipts
- s. 15Issue of receipt books
- s. 16Custody of receipt books
- s. 17Person who uses receipt book to be specified
- s. 18Adequate stock of receipt books to be kept
- s. 19Register
- s. 20Custody of Council money
- s. 21Gross amounts to be accounted for
- s. 22Advances, etc., of Council money prohibited
- s. 23Value book
- s. 24Errors in issuing receipts; how dealt with
- s. 25Exhausted receipt books
- s. 26Receipt books to be kept under safe custody
- s. 27Difficulties in collecting Council revenue
- s. 28Public notices respecting payments by public
- s. 29When Council monies to be banked
- s. 30Official receipt numbers to be written on back of cheques
- s. 31Payments
- s. 32Payment not exceeding fifty dollars
- s. 33Officers personally liable for improper disbursements
- s. 34Investment of Council funds
- s. 35Certifying Officers liable for improper disbursements
- s. 36Payments charged to different subhead; how made
- s. 37Vouchers to contain full particulars
- s. 38Payment vouchers to be signed by Mayor, etc
- s. 39Alterations of vouchers
- s. 40To whom payments to be made
- s. 41Personal advances
- s. 42Names received by Town Administrator; how dealt with
- s. 43Private money not to be mixed with Council money
- s. 44Boards of survey
- s. 45Accounts
- s. 46Documents needed for audit
- s. 47Documents to be submitted to Ministers
- s. 48Stores and property
- s. 49Stores; how to be kept
- s. 50Stores Survey Boards
- s. 51Handing over of Council stores
- s. 52Write-offs
- s. 53Report of losses
- s. 54Losses in excess of one thousand dollars
- s. 55Cancellation of arrears
- s. 56Write-offs on recommendation of Council
- s. 57Run down stores
- s. 58Audit
- s. 59General