Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 10 of 2007-2008) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 10 of 2007-2008)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004.

Dated 24 June 2008

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. 10 of 2007-2008).

1.2           Commencement

This Determination commences on 30 June 2008.

1.3           The Legislative Authority under which the Instrument is made

Subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a Determination reducing an appropriation item of the kind of item listed in subsection 12(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004, in an Appropriation Act listed in subsection 12(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004, for an entity, by the amount specified in the Determination, upon receipt of a written request from the Minister responsible for that entity.

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 determines that the appropriation item for the entity listed in the Schedule is reduced by the amount indicated in Column 5 of the provision.

1.5           Notes on the Instrument

The Schedule to the instrument lists the entity to which the determination applies.

The entity’s reduction determination table is contained within an individual provision. The provision provides that the entity 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 entity and portfolio names contained in the appropriation Acts under which reductions are made, noting this may have subsequently been changed by, for example, machinery of government changes.

1.6           Disallowance

A Determination made under subsection 12(2) is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

1.7           Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2001-2002

Schedule 1 contains a reduction determination for an entity for a departmental capital item appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 2)
2001-2002.

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 2) 2001-2002

(Part 1.7)

AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FORESTRY PORTFOLIO

[1]        Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry	Departmental capital item (Equity Injections) for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2001-2002	Subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004	Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry	13,000,000