PART VII RESPONSIBILITY FOR MONEYS WITHDRAWN SECTION I
PART VII RESPONSIBILITY FOR MONEYS WITHDRAWN SECTION I
Responsibility of Treasury Officer in recovering amounts
disallowed by the Accountant-General
When the Accountant General disallows a payment as unauthorized, the Treasury Officer should promptly recover the amount disallowed, without regard to any representation or protest and if the item is a recurring one, should also refuse to make similar payments in future until the Accountant General authorize him to do so. The Treasury Officer should not enter into any correspondence regarding any such recovery.
If a Treasury Officer receives an order to make a recovery from a government servant who has been transferred to another district, he should immediately forward it to the Treasury Officer of that other district.
NOTE—A recovery should, when necessary, be made in instalments as prescribed in Article 71 of the Kerala Financial Code.
(a) The Treasury Officer should invariably recover from the next contingent bill of the office concerned any amount which the Accountant General orders him to recover on account of contingencies.
(b) The Treasury Officer should ordinarily recover from the next pay bill of the government servant concerned any amount which the Accountant General orders him to recover on account of pay and similarly from the next travelling allowance bill any recovery ordered on account of travelling allowance. When, however, a recovery has to be made on account of travelling allowance and the government servant concerned does not present a travelling allowance bill within a month he should be requested to refund the amount at once in cash and if he fails to do so, it should be recovered from his next pay bill.
(c) If a recovery has to be made but no bill from which it can be made is likely to be submitted in the near future and the government servant who has to make good the amount does not refund it promptly in cash when requested to do so, the Treasury Officer should report the circumstances to Accountant General and ask for his orders.