PAPUA NEW GUINEA
No. of 1996.
Public Finances (Management) (Amendment No.3) Act 1996.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTION.
New Section 114A.
	"114A. DISCIPLINING OF DEPARTMENTAL HEADS, ETC., IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES."
AN ACT
entitled
Public Finances (Management) (Amendment No.3) Act 1996,
Being an Act to amend the Public Finances (Management) Act 1995,
MADE by the National Parliament,
	NEW SECTION 114A.
	Part XII of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after Section 114 the following new section:-
	"114A. DISCIPLINING OF DEPARTMENTAL HEADS, ETC., IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
	(1) For the purposes of this section, "appointing authority" means the authority by whom, under a Constitutional Law or an Act of Parliament, a Departmental Head or chief executive of a public body is appointed.
	"(2) Where
	(a) a Departmental Head; or
	(b) the chief executive of a public body,
	 authorizes expenditure
	(c) over the approved aggregate ceiling for the Department or public body, as the case may be; or
	(d) in advance of the issuance of warrant authority under this Act,
	the appointing authority may suspend without pay the Departmental Head or the chief executive, as the case may be, with effect on and from the date on which the Departmental Head of the Department responsible for finance matters certifies the unauthorized expenditure.
	(3) A Departmental Head or chief executive suspended under Subsection (1) may within 14 days of the date of such suspension make written submissions to the appointing authority as to the circumstances giving rise to the unauthorized expenditure.
	(4) After the expiry of 14 days from the date of the suspension the appointing authority, after considering any submission made under Subsection (2), may uplift the suspension or terminate the appointment of the Departmental Head or chief executive.".
I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Public Finances (Management) (Amendment No.3) Act 1996 which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament.
1 hereby certify that the Public Finances (Management) (Amendment No.3) Act 1996 was made by the National Parliament on 11 December 1996.
Speaker of the National Parliament.