No. 72 3rd Hession, 15th Legislature, Alberta 14 Elizabeth II BILL 72 A Bill to amend The Treasury Department Act HON. MR. AALBORG Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1966

Explanatory Note I. This Bill will amend

chapter 343 of the Revised Statutes. 2. The sections establishing the Treasury Board are revised to fit present day needs and practices.

Section 64, subsection (2) presently reads:

(2) The Provincial Auditor shall be paid a salary of not more than seventeen thousand five hundred dollars which shall be charged to and paid out of the General Revenue Fund.

BILL No. 72 of 1966

An Act to amend The Treasury Department Act (Assented to ,1966) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of 'the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Treasury Department Act is hereby amended. 2. Sections 38 to 48 are struck out and the following are substituted: 38.

(1) There shall be a Treasury Board composed of the Provincial Treasurer, who shall be the chairman, and not fewer than four and not more than seven other members of the Executive Council as are designated from time to time by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may designate other Ministers to serve as alternates in the absence of members of the Treasury Board.

(3) The Treasury Board shall have a secretary who shall be designated by the Board.

(4) The Treasury Board may determine its rules and methods of procedure and shall keep a minute book in which shall be recorded the proceedings of the Board. 39. The T'reasury Board shall act as a committee of the Executive Council on all matters relating to' finance, revenues, estimates, expenditures and financial commit­ ments and on any other matter concerning general ad­ ministrative policy in the public service that is referred to the Board by the Executive Council or on which the Board considers it desirable to report to the Executive Council. 40.

The Treasury Board may require from any public officer or any agent of the Crown any account, return, statement, document, report or information that the Board considers necessary for the performance of its duties.

Section 64, subsection (2) is amended by striking out the words "seventeen thousand five hundred" and by sub­ stituting the words "twenty thousand".

Section 69 reads: 69.

(1) The Auditor shall during each month check the receipts and payments of the several departments for the calendar month previous by comparison of the books of the department wherein the transactions of the department are regularly posted with the hooks of his office.

(2) The Auditor shall certify in the departmental books the result of the audit and the date of inspection. 5. Commencement of Act.

Section 69 is struck out and the following is sub­ stituted: 69. The Auditor shall maintain a system of pre-audit of all expenditures from the General Revenue Fund and shall from time to time and not less than once each year audit the revenues of the several departments. 5. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to and upon so coming into force

section 3 shall be deemed to have been in force at all times on and after the first day of April, 1965. 2

No. 72 THIRD SESSION FIFTEENTH LEGISLATURE 14 ELIZ'ABETR II 1966 BILL

An Act to amend The Treasury Department Act Received and read the First time ......................................... . Second time ..................................... . Third time ....................................... . RON. MR. AALBORG Title: 1966 (15th, 3rd) Bill 72,

An Act to amend The Treasury Department Act