Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Identity area

Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee on Public Accounts

Parallel form(s) of name

    Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

    • Standing Committee on Public Accounts

    Other form(s) of name

    • Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Standing Public Accounts Committee

    • Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Public Accounts Committee

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    Description area

    Dates of existence

    1869-

    History

    Standing committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario are regularly established within ten days of the beginning of each Session of Parliament, and report to the Legislature on matters referred to them. They do not have the authority to initiate investigations or expand their mandate. This committee was first established during the session of 1869, but operated primarily with the purpose of finding items of expenditure capable of embarrassing the government of the day and rarely conducted careful audits of spending by government agencies. As a result, it met infrequently and issued reports of limited value. Beginning in 1960, however, the Committee became more interested in a review of spending by the public service. By 1964, the committee had been reduced in size from 50 to 9 members and the terms of reference were changed so that all items of expenditure, rather than specific issues, would be referred to it for review. Since that time it has worked with the Provincial Auditor and now holds an annual series of meetings in which departmental witnesses and papers are called for.

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    Legal status

    Functions, occupations and activities

    The Standing Committee on Public Accounts reviewed expenditures of the government on behalf of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It held the government of the day to account by conducting audits of government spending.

    Address

    Standing Committees are established under the authority of Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

    Internal structures/genealogy

    General context

    Relationships area

    Related entity

    Ontario. Legislative Assembly (1867-)

    Identifier of related entity

    AA23

    Category of relationship

    hierarchical

    Type of relationship

    Ontario. Legislative Assembly controls Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee on Public Accounts

    Dates of relationship

    1869-

    Description of relationship

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    Authority record identifier

    CA338

    Institution identifier

    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

    Status

    For Review

    Level of detail

    Dates of creation, revision and deletion

    2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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        Sources

        Ontario. Clerk of the Legislative Assembly. Standing Committee Procedures: A Guide for Committee Chairmen. Queen's Printer, Toronto, 1985

        Archives of Ontario records, series RG 49-190.

        Canadiana name authorities, 1996-12- 24

        Maintenance notes

        Archivist(s):
        Wayne Crockett