Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. v] THE PRIVILEGES AND PROCEDURE 443 signature of the Governor-General, whereupon it serves as the warrant for the Treasurer to issue cheques or drafts on the Public Account in the banks for the services in question. If, on the other hand, the Auditor-General is not satisfied, he returns the instrument with a statement of the sums not found by him to be legally available, together with grounds for his decision. Thus the Governor-General has always the opportunity of deciding if any appropriation for which he is desired to issue a warrant is or is not legally available, and if not so available he can see whether the case is one in which he can anticipate the sanction of Parliament by issuing a special warrant. Further, the arrangements as to expenditure are much as in England everywhere in the Dominions, with numerous differences in detail. In the Commonwealth the rule that all appropriations lapse at the end of the financial year has been qualified by the institution of trust funds, payments to which are treated as appropriations, and have been held to be so by the High Court.! Moreover the Audit Act allows the varying of the expenditure on items of subdivisions in the estimates, but not so as to augment or add to any salary or wages. Amounts in excess of appropriations, or on subjects not provided for, can be charged to heads as the Treasurer may decide, but the total expenditure after the charges have been finally apportioned to heads for which there is an appropriation and after deduction of repayments must not exceed the amount of the appropriations under the head ‘Advance to Treasurer ’ in the estimates. The revenue as it accrues in the Commonwealth is paid into a public account which is opened at such banks as the Treasurer may direct. There are also other accounts for specific purposes called Trust Accounts, and to them are paid moneys appropriated by Parliament for that purpose. * The Government of New South Wales v. The Government of the Common- wealth, 7 C. L. R. 179. Cf. also Queensland Parliamentary Debates, 1910, Pp. 1463 seq., where the same question arose as to the placing to a trust fund for the University of £50,000, voted in one year when the expenditure was found impossible, to avoid a lapse. The Auditor accepted the procedure, but it was bitterly attacked in the Assembly.

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