State Water Supply Fund (Financial and Accounting Procedure) Act 1980

This Act shall apply throughout Peninsular Malaysia but shall not apply to a State where a Water Authority has been established by

State law.

On the appointed date, the relevant State law relating to the

Water Supply Fund established pursuant to paragraph 10(4)(b) of the

Financial Procedure Act 1957 [Act 61] is repealed.

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The Fund shall be controlled and operated by the Director in accordance with the provisions of this Act and all financial transactions of the Water Department shall be made through the

Fund.

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*NOTE─ “Water Department” is now under the Ministry of the Energy, Green

Technology and Water ─ see P.U. (A) 222/2009.

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Moneys required to be paid into the Fund

such sums as may be appropriated by the State for the purpose of water supply;

the balance in the appropriate Trust Account of the State specified for the purpose of water supply;

such sums representing the proceeds of any loan raised by the State under the appropriate State law before or after the appointed date for the purpose of water supply;

moneys earned by the operation of any project, scheme or enterprise financied from the Fund;

all rents, proceeds of sales, profits and income and other revenues derived by the State in respect of water supply directly or indirectly from assets paid for out of the Fund;

all other sums or property which may in any manner become payable to or vested in the State in respect of water supply before or after the appointed date.

Application of moneys of the Fund

payment of the remuneration of the Director and other persons in the service of the Water Department including contributions to the Employees Provident Fund or other

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schemes approved by the Government of the State in respect of such persons;

payment of goods and services acquired for the purpose of water supply services and for the acquisition of movable and immovable property for or incidental to the carrying out of works and services, relating to water supply, before or after the appointed date;

payment to the appropriate Consolidated Accounts of the

State by way of reimbursement in respect of ─

interest and other charges and the principal repayment on loans raised by the State, before or after the appointed date, for the purpose of water supply;

payment in discharge of any liabilities in respect of the water supply services pursuant to the Water Supply

Enactment of the State;

payment of royalty on untreated water drawn from any prescribed source or sources;

payment of any other expenditure properly incurred or accepted by the Water Department in the operation or maintenance of the water supply services in the State pursuant to the Water Supply Enactment of the State.

The Director shall also submit details of the development programme which he proposes to undertake in the next succeeding financial year and other matters relating to water supply services as the State Authority considers appropriate.

All assets and liabilities of the Water Department shall as of the appointed date be incorporated into the accounts referred to in subsection (1) and the net worth thereof shall be treated as capital of the State Government invested in the Water Department on that date.

The Director with the concurrence of the State Financial

Officer shall issue directions and instructions as to the manner in which the books and accounts shall be kept and the form in which statements of accounts shall be submitted for audit.

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Surplus

The Director shall, not later than 31 March of the following year, or such later date which shall not later than 31 July of that year, as the Menteri Besar may determine, transmit to the Auditor General the financial statements of the commercial accounts referred to in subsection (1) which shall consist of the balance sheet, profit and loss statement and such other supporting statements as may be required by the Menteri Besar.

The audited statements together with the Auditor General’s observations thereon shall be submitted to the Menteri Besar who shall cause them to be laid in the State Legislative Assembly.

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