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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1653/article-46",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/1653",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1653/2004 of 21 September 2004 on a standard financial regulation for the executive agencies pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 58/2003 laying down the statute for executive agencies to be entrusted with certain tasks in the management of Community programmes",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1653",
  "path": "article/46",
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  "number": "46",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Validation of expenditure is the act whereby the authorising officer responsible verifies the existence of the creditor's entitlement, verifies the conditions under which payment falls due and determines or verifies the reality and the amount of the claim. The validation of any expenditure shall be based on supporting documents certifying the creditor's entitlement.\nThe validation decision shall be expressed by the signing of a passed for payment voucher by the authorising officer responsible. In a non-computerised system, ‘passed for payment’ shall take the form of a stamp incorporating the signature of the authorising officer responsible. In a computerised system, passed for payment shall take the form of validation using the personal password of the authorising officer responsible.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1653/article/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:16.482577+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}