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178. Revocation

The Financial Regulations, S.I. 36/1997, are revoked.

Schedule

FORM 1

(Regulation 19)

GENERAL WARRANT

20 _ /20 _

Minister of Finance

(Insert address)

Date:

TO : ACCOUNTANT GENERAL

You are hereby authorized and required to withdraw from the Consolidated Fund sums not exceeding $ . total as shown in

the Schedule to the Appropriation Act, No. … of 20_, in such quarterly amounts as the Minister of Finance considers appropriate, and to make payments as they become due in respect of the various services specified in the Estimates in accordance with the laws and instructions of the Government.

And so doing, this, together with the Accounts, Certificates and Acquittances prescribed in the said laws and instructions shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge.

NAME
MINISTER OF FINANCE

I hereby certify that this Warrant has been issued under the Public Finance Management Act.

NAME
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

FORM 2

(Regulation 19)

PROVISIONAL GENERAL WARRANT

20 _ /20 _

Minister for Finance

(Insert address)

Date:

TO : ACCOUNTANT GENERAL

You are hereby authorized and required to pay the sum of $ .

representative of 3 months (April to June 20_) Allocation, during the year 20 _/20 _, for the Personal Emoluments, Pension Allowances, other Recurrent charges and Ongoing Capital Project related expenses as they become due, in accordance with laws and standing instructions of the Government.

And for so doing, this together with the accounts certificates and acquaintances prescribed in the said laws and instructions shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge.

NAME
MINISTER OF FINANCE

I hereby certify that this warrant has been issued under the Public Finance Management Act.

NAME
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

FORM 3

(Regulation 19)

SAINT LUCIA

ADVANCE WARRANT

					No.

				Day		Month	Year
ADVANCE WARRANT
for Minister of Finance
To: THE ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL
Person
You are hereby authorized and required to advance to the described
in the
Account
subjoined schedule the amount of $1237,39, such sum to be accounted for in the manner and according to the date or dates specified.
SCHEDULE
Person or Account
Nature of Advance
Amount			Code
Authority G.O. No.	Prime Minister
Details of Repayment
Security

Signature of Applicant		Counter Signature of Head of Department
(necessary only in respect of Personal Advances)

				Day		Month	Year
Advance Warrants will be prepared in Triplicate and copies will be filed in the Ministry of Finance, the Treasury and Audit Office

FORM 4

(Regulation 19)

SAINT LUCIA

APPLICATION FOR VIREMENT WARRANT

					No. of
DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
I beg to make application for a Virement Warrant for the service described below
Date
				Permanent Secretary/Head of Department
A
			Code			Description
Department
Division
Cost Centre
Programme
Sub-Programme
Econ Class
Project No.
Fund
B. Amount provided in the Estimate 20 _/ 20 _ . $
C. Amount provided by virement warrant
Reallocation Warrant or Contingencies Fund Warrant
No.								$
No.								$
No.								$
No.								$
No.								$
No.								$
Total amount provided for period 20_ /20 _								$
D. Total Expenditure incurred including outstanding
Liabilities to date of this application
E. Amount required for the remainder of then Total required for the year
								$
Amount now required by this Virement warrant Difference between B and C								$
F. State why the amount provided has proved insufficient and compare present requirements submitted with your draft Estimates.


A separate statement in explanation should be attached.

G. Saving are available under -

Department	Division	Cost Centre					Programme		Sub-Programme

Econ Class	Fund/Project
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Approved
Date
					Director of Finance
(To be prepared in quintuplicate)

FORM 5

(Regulation 19)

SAINT LUCIA

CONTINGENCY FUND WARRANT

No. of 20
TO: THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL
WHEREAS it has become necessary in the interest of the Public Service to incur certain expenditure in advance of a grant of an appropriation by Parliament, I hereby authorize you under the powers conferred on me by section 19(1) of the Public Finance Management Act, to pay from the Contingencies Fund a sum not exceeding that set out in the Section below for the purposes specified therein.
And for so doing, this together with proper Accounts, Certificates and Acquaintances shall be your sufficient warrant and discharge.

Date			Minister of Finance
A. MINISTER OF FINANCE,
I beg to make an application for an advance from the Contingencies Fund for the purposes described below.

			Accounting Officer

Date			Ministry/Department Government Agency

Ministry/Department	Division	Cost Centre			Sub Programme Programme
Source of Funds
B. Amount provided in the Estimates				$
Add: Supplementary Provision:
Supplementary Estimates				$
Reallocation Warrants				$
Virement Warrants				$
Total				$
Less: Warrants				$
C. Total provided for year				$
D. Total expenditure incurred, including Outstanding liabilities to date of this application				$
E. Amount required for remainder of the year				$
F. Total required for the year				$
G. Amount now required by Contingency Fund Advance				$
H. Explain why the advance is necessary and why it is considered urgent and unavoidable and cannot be postponed?
I. Explain why the provision was unforeseen at the time of the budget?
J. Permanent Secretary (Finance),
Submitted, I certify that the expenditure proposed cannot without injury to the public service be postponed until adequate provision is made by Parliament.

Date			Permanent Secretary/ Head of Department
	Department/Ministry of
K. Minister of Finance,
Warrant is hereby submitted as being in order for your signature, please.

Date			Permanent Secretary (Finance)
(These authorities must be prepared in quintuplicate and numbered as a series in ascending numerical order).
Distribution of copies as detailed in Public Financial Management Act.

FORM 6

(Regulation 19)

SAINT LUCIA

APPLICATION FOR REALLOCATION WARRANT

No. of 20

A. THE MINISTER OF FINANCE

I beg to make and application for the services described below

Date:

Accounting Officer of the Government Agency
Ministry of Finance

Department

Division

Cost Centre

Programme

Sub-Programme

Econ Class

Project No.

Funds

B. Amount provided in the Estimates 20_ /20

Amount provided by Virement, Reallocation or Contingency Fund Warrant.

No.

Total amount provided for in 20 _/ 20 _

C. Expenses incurred

Amount required for the remainder of the year, including outstanding liabilities to date of this application.

Total required for the year

D. Amount required by reallocation warrant.

(Difference between B and C)

E. State why the amount so far provided had proved insufficient and compare present requirements with those submitted with your draft estimates. A separate statement in explanation should be attached, if necessary.

E.g., Major rehabilitation works for Primary and Secondary schools exceeded original estimates and therefore had to be undertaken due to the urgent nature.

F. State why the proposed additional expenditure was not anticipated and why it cannot be postponed until the reallocation is approved by Parliament.

E.g., Schools require urgent works to deal with maintenance issues and rehabilitation of their building which could nor have been postponed.

G. (To be completed by the Accounting Officer under whose expenditure heading saving are available).

I hereby confirm the availability of a surplus under the following items of expenditure to be applied in aid of the item specified in Section A above.

Department

Division

Cost Centre

Programme

Sub-Programme

Econ Class

Project No.

Funds

Amount

Date:

Accounting Officer of the Government Agency
Ministry of Finance

H. THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL

Whereas it has become necessary, in the interest of the Public Service, to incur certain expenditure not provided for in the Estimate;

You are hereby authorized, in anticipation of the approval of Parliament, to exercise the reallocation of funds between the items of expenditure as shown in the schedule below.

ITEM NUMBER

INCREASE

Department

Division

Cost Centre

Programme

Sub-Programme

Econ Class

Project No.

Funds

Amount

DECREASE