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PAO 9-7

Section: ACCOUNTING AND REMITTANCE
Subsection: SIGNING AUTHORITY--DEPARTMENTAL

  SUMMARY
    Signing authority under Section 33 of the Financial Administration Act (FAA).

  SIGNING AUTHORITY--DEPARTMENTS 079
    The Payroll Accounting Office (PAO), Tunney's Pasture, will not issue manual cheques (i.e.: severance payments, salary advances, etc.) for any client department effective April 1999 as Department 079 will be compliant to the Financial Information Strategy (FIS). Clients requiring manual cheque issue will be required to request payments through their Standard Payment System (SPS) priority cheque issue.
   
NOTE: All manual refunds for Department 079 deductions will be the responsibility of the PAO. Therefore, all requests must be forward to the PAO for approval and processing.
    DELEGATION--The incumbents of the following positions in the PAO have been delegated signing authority under Section 33 of the FAA for charges being made to Department 079:
   
- PAO Manager;
- Compensation Sector Accounting Advisor;
- Assigned PAO Staff.
  SIGNING AUTHORITY--OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
    DELEGATION--There are NO positions in the District Office (DO)/Pay Offices that are delegated as signing authorities under Section 33 of the FAA for departments including 079. All personnel-pay input, cheque requisitions, etc. for departments other than 079 must be signed by a departmental officer who is authorized to sign under Section 33 of the FAA.
   
NOTE: Emergency Salary Advances as well as all urgent salary payments are to be requisitioned by the employing department and processed through the Accounts Payment Section in accordance with the instructions in section PPIM 5-2 of the Personnel Pay Input Manual (PPIM).
  SPECIMEN SIGNATURE CARDS
    REQUIREMENT--Specimen Signature Cards (Form GC 136 [88/09] 7540-21-905-6369) for all departmental offices, authorized to sign under Section 33 of the FAA, must be completed and retained in the pay office for verification purposes.
   

VERIFICATION PROCEDURES--Procedures for the verification of departmental personnel-pay input are contained in Volume 2 - Pay Operations of the Pay Office Procedures (POP) Manual.

Last Update: March 1999

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