Civil Servants

11. Regard for state resources

11.1 Civil servants should endeavour to ensure the proper, effective, and efficient use of public money.

11.2 Civil servants are required to:

take proper and reasonable care of public funds and departmental property and not to use them, or permit their use, for unauthorised purposes;4
incur no liability on the part of their employer without proper authorisation and
ensure that expenses, such as travel and subsistence payments, are not unnecessarily incurred either by themselves or by staff reporting to them.