Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 15 of 2007-2008) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 15 of 2007-2008)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008.

Dated 25 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. 15 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 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a Determination reducing a 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 9(9) of the Appropriation Acts that this determination is made under provides that a determination made under subsection 9(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           Reductions in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008

Schedule 1 contains reduction determinations for entities for departmental items appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008.

Schedule 1     Reductions in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2007-2008

(Part 1.7)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PORTFOLIO

[1]        Office of the Privacy Commissioner

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Office of the Privacy Commissioner	Departmental item for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Prime Minister	32,000

FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS PORTFOLIO

[2]        Australian Institute of Family Studies         

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Australian Institute of Family Studies	Departmental item for the Australian Institute of Family Studies in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Prime Minister	20,000

PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET PORTFOLIO

[3]        Australian Public Service Commission        

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Australian Public Service Commission	Departmental item for the Australian Public Service Commission in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Prime Minister	94,000

[4]        Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman  

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman	Departmental item for the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Prime Minister	82,000

[5]        Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General  

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General	Departmental item for the Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Subsection 9(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008	Prime Minister	54,000