171. Petitions addressed to the Queen, or petitions addressed to the Queen in Council (other than petitions of appeal or petitions for special leave to appeal from decrees, orders, sentences or decisions of courts, judges, or judicial officers), and memorials to public officers or departments of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, shall be in like manner sent to the Governor for transmission to the Secretary of State.
172. The Governor shall transmit to the Secretary of State with all reason- able despatch every communication received by him in accordance with Regulations 169 to 171, accompanied by such report as its contents may appear to him to require. This instruction does not apply to second or subsequent communications where the petition or other document contains no new matter relating to the appeal.
173. There is no right to petition any member of the Royal Family other than the Queen, and it is inappropriate to send them memorials requesting intervention in matters of Government. The Governor shall return any Memorial of this kind to the sender informing him of the correct method of petitioning the Crown.
I. Dependent Territories
174. Correspondence between Deputy Governor or Dependent Governments may be conducted between Governors direct, between Territory Chief Secretaries or between such other officers as may be approved by the Governors concerned.
CHAPTER VIII. FINANCE
A. Accounting Officers
175. (1) Subject to these Regulations and to such instructions as may, with the authority of the Secretary of State, be approved by the Governor, the accounting operations of the Government are under the general management and supervision of the Accountant General; but it is also the duty of the Chief Secretary, the Financial Secretary, the Director of Audit, the sub- accountants and all other accounting officers to take care that these Regulations are duly observed.
(2) The term Accountant General means any officer, however styled, who is appointed to be in charge of the Treasury; and the term Director of Audit means any officer, however styled, who is responsible for the audit of the accounts of the Territory.
(3) The term sub-accountant means an officer who is entrusted with the receipt, custody, and disbursement of public money and who is required to keep one of the recognised cash books, the transactions in which are accounted for to the Accountant General and subsequently embodied in the final accounts of the Territory.
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