County Management Act, 1940

Authorisation of payments.

21.—(1) The county manager for a county may, by order signed by him and countersigned by the nominated officer or, where there is more than one such officer, the appropriate nominated officer for such county, authorise the making of any payment out of the funds of the council of such county in respect of any expense or on account of any liability incurred by such council or by such county manager for such council in the exercise or performance by such council or such county manager (as the case may be) of any of the powers, functions, or duties of such council which are exercisable or performable by them or him (as the case may be) under this Act.

(2) The manager for an elective body may, by order signed by him and countersigned by the nominated officer for such elective body, authorise the making of any payment out of the funds of such body in respect of any expense or on account of any liability incurred by such body or by such manager for such body in the exercise or performance by such body or such manager (as the case may be) of any of the powers, functions, or duties of such body which are exercisable or performable by them or him (as the case may be) under this Act.

(3) The Minister shall by order nominate (either generally in respect of all councils of counties or particularly in respect of each such council) an officer of every council of a county to be the nominated officer for such county within the meaning of sub-section (1) of this section, and may, in respect of any such county, nominate different officers to be the nominated officer for such county for different purposes.

(4) The Minister shall by order nominate (either generally in respect of all elective bodies or all elective bodies of a particular class or particularly in respect of one or more specified elective bodies) an officer of every elective body to be the nominated officer for such elective body within the meaning of sub-section (2) of this section.

(5) The Minister may by order, whenever he so thinks proper, revoke a nomination made by him under either of the two next preceding sub-sections of this section or under this sub-section and make a new nomination in lieu of the nomination so revoked.

(6) Sub-article (3) of Article 18 of the Schedule to the Local Government (Application of Enactments) Order, 1898, is hereby repealed.