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The minister of public services and procurement is the receiver general for Canada. The Department of Public Works and Government Services Act, 1996 states: "In the Minister's capacity as Receiver General, the Minister shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties and functions assigned to the receiver general by law."
The Department of Public Works and Government Services Act, 1996 states: "In the Minister's capacity as Receiver General, the Minister shall exercise all the powers and perform all the duties and functions assigned to the receiver general by law." Cheques distributed by the Government of Canada to citizens and organizations are made in the name ...
The department is responsible to Parliament through the minister of public services and procurement and receiver general for Canada – presently Jean-Yves Duclos. Day-to-day operations and leadership of the department is overseen by the deputy minister, a senior civil servant. Vehicle of Public Services and Procurement in Ottawa
The act establishes the responsibility of the Receiver General for Canada as the sole recipient of Canadian public moneys, its responsibility to record keep, and its ability to contract agents with a legal obligation to remit collected funds to the Receiver General. The act also establishes that the Treasury Board may establish financial ...
A receiver general (or receiver-general) is an officer responsible for accepting payments on behalf of a government, and for making payments to a government on behalf of other parties. See also [ edit ]
A cashier's check (or cashier's cheque, cashier's order, official check; in Canada, the term bank draft is used, [1] not to be confused with Banker's draft as used in the United States) is a check guaranteed by a bank, drawn on the bank's own funds and signed by a bank employee. [2]
Cheque clearing (or check clearing in American English) or bank clearance is the process of moving cash (or its equivalent) from the bank on which a cheque is drawn to the bank in which it was deposited, usually accompanied by the movement of the cheque to the paying bank, either in the traditional physical paper form or digitally under a cheque truncation system.
Canadian Payments Association, carrying on business under the brand name Payments Canada, [2] [3] is an organization that operates a payment clearing and settlement system in Canada. The Canadian Payments Association was established by the Canadian Payments Act in 1980.