S.L. 601.1 Art. 54How payments are to be made.

(1) All payments shall be made through the Treasury except where otherwise authorised.

(2) Unless the Accountant General deems it fit to make any other arrangements, vouchers for payment through the Treasury shall be presented complete in all respects as directed by the Accountant General.

(3) Payments up to one hundred euro (€100) may be made by departments direct.

(4) In the case of departments which are authorised in terms of article 13 of the Act to keep a bank account in their own names, payments over hundred euro (€100) shall be made by cheque or bank draft or electronic payments through that account. Such payments shall be signed by the Head of Department concerned or by an officer not below the grade of Principal delegated for that purpose by him and by another officer not below the grade of Executive Officer, subject to both such officers being recognised by the Accountant General as proper officers for the said purpose.

(5) The Minister may exempt any embassy, consular or other office of Malta abroad from compliance with the provisions of sub-regulation (4), if he is satisfied that the circumstances of the place where the embassy, consular or other office is situated are such as to render that compliance extremely difficult or impossible.

(6) This regulation shall not apply to the payment of salaries.