Determination to Reduce Appropriation Upon Request (No. 5 of 2006-2007) (Cth)

DETERMINATION TO REDUCE APPROPRIATION UPON REQUEST

I, Senator the Hon Nick Minchin, Minister for Finance and Administration, pursuant to the legislative provision listed in column 3 below, hereby reduce the appropriation in column 1 for the entity in column 2 in response to the request made by the Minister in column 4 by the amount listed in column 6.

Column 1	Column 2	Column3	Column 4	Column 5	Column 6
Appropriation	Entity	Authority	Requested by	Date of Request	$
The other departmental item being the Equity Injection for the Australian Communications Authority in Schedule 2 to Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2005-2006	Australian Communications and Media Authority*	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2005-2006	Senator the Hon Helen Coonan, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts	15 January 2007	$1,000,000

*Clause 9 of Schedule 4 of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Act 2005, provides that for the purposes of an Appropriation Act, references to the Australian Communications Authority are to be read as references to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

NICK MINCHIN

23 February 2007                                   No. 5 of 2006-2007