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T—Pensions.
• 6 i T 1 i e ,if r f iy p^^ander may not sanction any pensions or gratuities to
officials of the local administration or to the families of such officials.
— Other Expenditure.
6 . The Army Commander may exercise full powers of sanction in regard
to contingent charges, purchase of articles or stores for the public service and
miscellaneous expenditure, provided that all single items costing over Es. 10 000
shall be reported to the Government of India. 3
Eli. — General.
C ^ Se 1 S 0f , ei ?. er g enc y> the Army Commander may authorise
expenditure which is beyond his powers of sanction under the foregoing rules,
subject to a report to the Government of India.
. 8 . The powers to be exercised by the Army Commander under the fore-
going rules will be subject to the general limitation that no expenditure shall be
sanctioned committing His Majesty’s Government or the Government of India
to any payments continuing beyond the period of the war.
9. The Chief Political Officer, in his capacity as Chief Staff Officer to the
Army Commander as regards the occupied territory, may exercise all the powers
delegated to the Army Commander under these rules, subject to any special
restriction which the Army Commander may lay down from time to time.
10 . In cases which the Army Commander, or any authority subordinate
to him, bas sanctioned expenditure, in the belief that it was debitable to the
revenues of tlm occupied territory and with reference to the powmrs of sanction
delegated to hun m respect of expenditure so debitable, but the expenditure
is found on. audit to be debitable to the Indian Expeditionary Porce in
Mesopotamia and beyond the power of sanction of the Army Commander in his
military capacity, no objection to the expenditure will be raised by the audit
officer except m cases wliere he is not satisfied that the original allocation of the
local authorities was made in good faith.
Schedule of Financial Poweks of authorities subordinate to the
Local Civil Administration of the Occupied Territory in Iraq.
Expenditure debitable to Indian revenues or to the Indian Expeditionary
Force.
% 1- officer subordinate to the Local Civil Administration of the occupied
territories may not sanction, or incur without the authority of the Army
Commander, any expenditure which is debitable to the revenues of India.
He may not incur any military expenditure without the sanction of a respon
sible military officer to be confirmed in due course by the issue of a force
routine order.
Note. The Army Commander before authorising any expenditure from Indian revenues must satisfy
himself that the expenditure has received the sanction of the Government of India or the authority subordinate
to the Government of India competent to sanction the expenditure.
II.—Expenditure debitable to the Eevenues of the occupied territories.
2. All expenditure debitable to the revenues of the occupied territory
shall be incurred subject to the general control of the Army Commander in his
capacity as the administrator of the occupied territory.
6. The Local Civil Administration of the occupied territory may delegate
to any authority subordinate to it pow 7 er to create and abolish appointments
on pay and allowances not exceeding Its. 100 a month ; to raise the pay and
allowances of an existing appointment or of an officer up to a limit of Es. 100
a month; and reduce the pay and allowances of an existing appointment or of
an officer in cases where they do not exceed Es. 100 a mouth.
4 An authority subordinate to the Local Civil Administration of the
occupied territory may sanction contingent charges (see chapter 6 of the Civil
Account Code) and expenditure on the supply of articles for the public service
subject to any orders issued by the Local Civil Administration from time to
time.
Note. The maximum limit of expenditure to be incurred in any single case under this rule shall not
ordinal ily exceed Rs. 600; but the Army Commander may enhance this limit in special cases.