Accounting Officer definition

Accounting Officer clause 65;

Accounting Officer means the municipal manager appointed in terms of Section 60 of the Municipal Finance Management Act.

Accounting Officer means a person appointed in terms of section 82(l) (a) or (b) of the Municipal Structures Act;

Examples of Accounting Officer in a sentence

• As Accounting Officer, they are responsible for safeguarding the public funds in their charge and ensuring they are applied only to the purposes for which they were voted and more generally for efficient and economical administration.

• NITHC provides assurance that it has complied with these delegations in the bi-annual assurance statement from NITHC’s Accounting Officer to DfI.

• The Chair and Chief Executive have agreed how they will work together in practice, understanding and respecting each other’s role, including the Chief Executive’s responsibility as Accounting Officer.

• DfI’s Accounting Officer may withdraw NITHC’s Accounting Officer designation if they conclude that NITHC’s Accounting Officer is no longer a fit person to carry out the responsibilities of an Accounting Officer or that it is otherwise in the public interest that the designation be withdrawn.

• The Permanent Secretary has designated the Chief Executive of NITHC as NITHC’s Accounting Officer.

More Definitions of Accounting Officer

Accounting Officer means the NHS Officer responsible and accountable for funds entrusted to the Trust. The officer shall be responsible for ensuring the proper stewardship of public funds and assets. For this Trust it shall be the Chief Executive.

Accounting Officer means the person who from time to time discharges the functions specified in paragraph 25(5) of Schedule 7 to the 2006 Act;

Accounting Officer. – means the Municipal Manager and vice versa;

Accounting Officer means the Municipal Manager;

Accounting Officer means the Municipal Manager for the Municipality as

Accounting Officer. : means a person described in Section 36 of the Public Finance Management Act, Act No. 1 of 1999 (As amended by Act 29 of 1999).

Accounting Officer means the manager of the municipal administration and accounting officer of the municipality appointed by the council in terms of section 54A of the Local Government: Municipal Systems Act No. 32 of 2000 and includes any employee of the municipality who acts in his stead and, in the event of the municipality being subject to an intervention in terms of section 139 of the Constitution or any other applicable law, includes the “Administrator” appointed as a consequence of such intervention or in terms of the conditions pertaining thereto;