The President of the Territorial Council is the authorising officer for local authority expenditure and prescribes the execution of local authority revenue, subject to the specific provisions of the tax code applicable to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon relating to the collection of local authority tax revenue.
Capital expenditure relating to movable assets not included on the lists and of a value below a threshold set by order of the ministers responsible for finance and local authorities is charged to the investment section, following express deliberations by the assembly.
The president of the territorial council declared to be a de facto accountant by a final ruling of the audit judge is suspended from his capacity as authorising officer until he has been discharged from his management. In this case, the Territorial Council shall deliberate in order to entrust a Vice-President with the powers mentioned in this article. This function ceases as soon as the President of the Territorial Council has been discharged.