(i) The normal procedure which has been in force hithert for the submission of schemes under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act should be continued without modification wherever this is possible. This procedure involves the submission of an application to me (and in the case of West Indian Governments, to the Comptroller for Development and Welfare) accompanied by all the usual particulars, including full estimates of cost.
(ii) There may be cases where sufficiently detailed information is available to frame an application covering part of a project on which it is urgently desired to start work, although further investigation or discussin is
For necessary before the full scheme can be drawn up. 'such cases an application in the usual form may be made for an interim grant. The interim application should, of course, give sufficient inf.ration to enable me and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to judge whether an interim grant can be approved, and must also specify the amount of expenditure for which interim approval is required. A full scheme prepared in the usual manner should be submitted as soon as possible thereafter and until such full scheme is approved expenditure must be limited to the amount authorised by the interim scheme.
(iii) Where as a matter of urgency and because time does not permit the working out of a "schema" under the Act, a Colonial Government wishes to incur expenditure from its own funds in the first instance, it will be possible to approve the inclusin of this expenditure in a subsequent scheme provided that my authorisation (with Treasury concurrence) has been notified to you before work is started or commitments incurred. Requests for such authorisation must specify the maximum amount for which eventual reimbursement from the C.D. and . Vote will be requested. Furthermore, before giving such authorisation I must have sufficient information to satisfy myself that the project is desirable in itself and cligible for assistance under the Act.
It should be understood that since the procedure suggested at the beginning of this section does not constitute approval of a C.D. & W. 'scheme' it may be decided, when the scheme comes to be submitted, that part cr whole of the cost cannot after all be met by means of a C.D. & W. grant and will therefore have to be met from the Colony's own resources. The adoption however of the procedure described at the beginning of this section has been suggested as a moans of preventing subsequent reimbursement from the C.D. & W. Vote from being automatically debarred in cases where time does not permit even of framing and
This procedure obtaining approval for an interim scheme.
cannot be applied to grant-aided colonics since it is necessary in their case to give full consideration to all proposals for new expenditure at the gutset, whether or not they will fall to be met from the C.D. & W. Vote, and to determine the incidence of charge before any expenditure is incurred.
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