In message , at 17:55:11 on Thu, 20 Dec
2018, tim... remarked:

One of the latter I'm aware of had a NL grant and the T&C were
specific that all purchases funded by the grant MUST be paid for with
a two-signatures method, and just to rub it in MUST NOT ever be paid
for on a debit/credit card[1]. In smaller organisations it's often
easier to manage suchpayments by cheque, rather than pester two
people to log on and double-authorise a BACS transfer (although the
technology to do that certainly exists).

The sooner these people are shaken into the 21st century by the
abolition of cheques the better IMHO

It doesn't matter how hard you shake them, two-signature cheques will
remain much easier to do than two-login BACS. You've also got to realise
that the signatories are often in effect volunteers, so you don't want
to "shake" them too much.
--
Roland Perry