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Regulations and other documents
Policy documents relating to the budget include financial regulations, contract standing orders, scheme of delegation to officers and service level agreements
Financial regulations
Financial regulations are the framework within which the financial affairs of the Authority operate, and apply to all the Authority’s activities. The regulations identify responsibilities in full, but from a commonsense point of view can be summarised as follows:
- Major financial decisions, including setting the annual budget, must be taken by members as advised by the Treasurer.
- The Authority encourages the Chief Officer and his staff to take as much day-to-day responsibility for financial management of the service as possible within the agreed budget.
- The Treasurer (for financial matters) and the Clerk (for legal matters) have statutory responsibilities and should be consulted on significant issues or where members or officers have any doubt about the correctness of a possible action.
- Spending must be regularly monitored to ensure that it stays within approved budgets.
- Members, as advised by the Treasurer, Clerk and Chief Officer, are responsible for identifying significant risks to the Authority and for putting in place a strategy to deal with them.
- Payments, including to employees, can only be made through arrangements approved by the Treasurer and within detailed procedures laid down.
- All partnership arrangements must take account of appropriate financial and legal matters.
- Hampshire Fire and Rescue Financial Regulations
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Contract Standing Orders
Contract Standing Orders set out the administrative procedure that must be followed in seeking tenders and letting contracts for the supply of services and works. These CSOs have three main purposes:
- to ensure that the Fire Authority obtains best value in the way it spends money, so that in turn it may offer best value services to the public
- to comply with the laws that govern the spending of public money; and
- to protect individuals from undue criticism or allegation of wrongdoing.
- Hampshire Fire and Rescue Contract Standing Orders 214Kb
Scheme of Delegation to Officers
The Scheme deals with the levels of responsibility and accountability of the officers named in specified areas of control.
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Service Level Agreements
Service Level Agreements for Hampshire County Council, County Treasurer’s services to Hampshire Fire and Rescue Authority for 2012/13:
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