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Public Finance Management Act, 1999 (Act No. 1 of 1999)

Chapter 5 : Departments and Constitutional Institutions

Part 2 : Responsibilities of accounting officers

42. Accounting officers' responsibilities when assets and liabilities are transferred

 

(1) When assets or liabilities of a department are transferred to another department or other institution in terms of legislation or following a re-organisation of functions, the accounting officer for the transferring department must—
(a) draw up an inventory of such assets and liabilities: and
(b) provide the accounting officer for the receiving department or other institution with substantiating records, including personnel records of staff to be transferred.

 

(2) Both the accounting officer for the transferring department and the accounting officer for the receiving department or other institution must sign the inventory when the transfer takes place.

 

(3) The accounting officer for the transferring department must file a copy of the signed inventory with the relevant treasury and the Auditor-General within 14 days of the transfer.