Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 13 of 2007-2008) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 13 of 2007-2008)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 11(1) of the following annual Appropriation Acts:

Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2006-2007

Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008

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. 13 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 11(1) of Appropriation Acts (No. 2) and (No. 4) enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a Determination reducing an administered assets and liabilities item or an other departmental item 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 items for the entities listed in the Schedules are reduced by the amounts indicated in Column 5 of each provision.

1.5           Notes on the Instrument

The Schedules to the instrument list the entities to which a determination applies. The entities are listed alphabetically, by portfolio.

Each entity’s reduction determination table is contained within an individual provision. Each 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 that these may have subsequently been changed by, for example, machinery of government changes.

1.6           Disallowance

Subsection 11(9) of the Appropriation Acts that that this determination is made under provides that a determination made under subsection 11(1) is a legislative instrument and despite subsection 44(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, (which provides that Instruments made under Annual Appropriation Acts are not subject to disallowance under section 42 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003) section 42 of that Act applies to this Determination.

1.7           Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2006-2007

Schedule 1 contains a reduction determination for an entity for an other departmental item (Equity Injections) appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2006-2007.

1.8           Reductions in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008

Schedule 2 contains reduction determinations for entities for an other departmental item (Equity Injections) appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008.

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Schedule 1     Reductions in Appropriation Act
(No. 4) 2006-2007

(Part 1.7)

HUMAN SERVICES PORTFOLIO

[1]        Department of Human Services

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Human Services	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Department of Human Services in Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2006-2007	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2006-2007	Minister for Human Services	31,439,000

Schedule 2     Reductions in Appropriation Act
(No. 2) 2007-2008

(Part 1.8)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PORTFOLIO

[1]        Australian Crime Commission

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Australian Crime Commission	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Australian Crime Commission in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Minister for Home Affairs	210,000

DEFENCE PORTFOLIO

[2]        Department of Defence

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Defence	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Department of Defence in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Minister for Defence	812,197,000

[3]        Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Veterans’ Affairs	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Department of Veterans’ Affairs in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Minister for Veterans’ Affairs	2,208,000

HUMAN SERVICES PORTFOLIO

[4]        Department of Human Services

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Human Services	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Department of Human Services in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Minister for Human Services	51,761,000

[5]       Centrelink

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Centrelink	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for Centrelink in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Minister for Human Services	12,715,000

[6]        Medicare Australia

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Medicare Australia	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for Medicare Australia in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2007-2008	Minister for Human Services	2,347,000