| (1) | Expenditure shall be unauthorized if a payment in respect thereof is made— |
| (a) | for a purpose or purposes for which no provision has been made in the then current Post Office Appropriation Act or the spending of which has not been authorized under section 12F(5)(b); |
| (b) | in excess of the amount appropriated in the then current Post Office Appropriation Act for the purpose or purposes for which the expenditure has been incurred, and for which excess no approval or authority in terms of section 12F(3) or 12F(5)(a), as the case may be, has been granted; and |
| (c) | in respect of which an appropriation authority required in terms of the provisions of this Act or any other law, cannot be submitted by the Director-General to the Auditor-General. |
| (2) | Unauthorized expenditure referred to in subsection (1) shall not form a charge against the Fund until— |
| (a) | in the case of paragraphs (a) and (b) of that subsection the expenditure concerned has been authorized by law; or |
| (b) | in the case of paragraph (c) of that subsection, the expenditure concerned has been validated by law. |
| (3) | Unauthorized expenditure which has not been authorized or validated as contemplated in subsection (2), shall be recovered from the Director-General if he cannot or is unwilling to recover the amount concerned from the beneficiary or the person responsible for the unauthorized expenditure. |
[Section 12T inserted by section 18 of Act No. 52 of 1989]
