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Nominal payment
Nov 5, 2006 08:02
17 yrs ago
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English term

non-discretionary

English Other Environment & Ecology Government Statement
Context:

“Facilitating payments” is a phrase generally used to describe small payments made to expedite routine, non-discretionary government actions.
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4 "the mills of God..."
4 +2 according to the book
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Non-PRO (1): Roddy Stegemann

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"the mills of God..."

...and the mills of government grind exceedingly small, but also exceedingly slow. If you want to speed up the issue of a passport, as an example, you can pay a surcharge (officially!) and this will mean that your application is dealt with as a priority. There are many other chargeable services which the government provides, and I would say the same principle applies in many case of e.g. licence issuing (marriage?).

This is not to tread the dangerous waters of bribery and corruption to see that an application is favourably dealt with...

So here would perhaps mean "obligatory", inasmuch as the government or its officer(s) is the only authority entitled to handle the application referred to.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks all!"
+2
1 hr

according to the book

Nondiscretionary spending includes payments that can only be made as prescribed by law. There is no freedom of interpretation on the part of those who disperse them.
Peer comment(s):
agree Dave Calderhead
1 hr
Thanks, Dave.
agree Alfa Trans (X)
3 days 1 hr
Thanks, Marju.
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