Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 1 of 2009-2010) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 1 of 2009-2010)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Instrument to effect a determination under subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2006-2007.

Dated 5 October 2009

LINDSAY TANNER

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Part 1        Preliminary

1.1           Name of Determination

This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 1 of 2009-2010).

1.2           Commencement

This Determination commences the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments.

1.3           The Legislative Authority under which the Instrument is made

Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3)2006-2007 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a determination reducing a departmental item for an agency by the amount specified in the Determination, upon receipt of a written request from the Minister responsible for that agency.

The provision was included in the Appropriation Acts to enable excess departmental appropriation items to be extinguished.

1.4           Purpose of the Instrument

The Instrument contains a determination that reduces the appropriation item for the entity listed in Schedule 1 by the amount indicated in Column 5 of the provision.

1.5           Notes on the Instrument

Schedule 1 to the Instrument contains the Determination which lists the entity to which the Determination applies.

The agency’s reduction determination table is contained within an individual provision. Each provision provides that the agency in column 1, has the appropriation item in column 2, under the legislative authority in column 3, through the request by the responsible Minister in Column 4, reduced by the amount in column 5.

The instrument reflects agency and portfolio names contained in the Appropriation Acts under which reductions are made, noting that these may have subsequently been changed by, for example, machinery of government changes.

1.6           Disallowance

A Determination made under subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3)2006-2007 is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

1.7           Reductions in Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2006-2007

Schedule 1 contains a reduction determination for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the departmental item appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2006-2007. 

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 3) 2006-2007

(Part 1.7)

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE PORTFOLIO

[1]        Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade   

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Agency	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Departmental item for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2006-2007	Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2006-2007	Minister for Foreign Affairs	803,000