Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 2 of 2010-2011) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 2 of 2010-2011)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Penelope Ying Yen Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010.

Dated 20^th October 2010

PENELOPE YING YEN WONG

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Part 1              Preliminary

1. Name

This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 2 of 2010-2011).

1. Commencement

This Determination commences on the day on which it is made.

1. Legislative Authority

(1) Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010 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.

(2)   The reduction provisions are included in the annual Appropriation Acts to enable excess departmental appropriation items, administered assets and liabilities items, and other departmental items to be extinguished.

4              Purpose

This Determination reduces the appropriation item for the agency listed in the Schedule by the amount indicated in Column 4.

5              Notes

(1)    The Schedule contains a table listing the affected agency in column 1, the Appropriation Act and appropriation item in column 2, which through the request by the responsible Minister in column 3, is reduced by the amount in column 4.

(2)   This Determination reflects agency and portfolio names contained in the Appropriation Act under which the reduction is made, noting that these may have subsequently been changed by, for example, machinery of government changes. A Schedule to this Determination lists the agency to which it applies.

6              Disallowance

Determinations made under subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010 are legislative instruments and are disallowable.

7              Reductions in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010

Schedule 1 reduces the appropriation for Centrelink for the departmental item appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010.

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2009-2010

(Clause 7)

[1]            HUMAN SERVICES PORTFOLIO

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Agency	Appropriation	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Centrelink	Departmental item for Centrelink in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010	Minister for Human Services	121,604,393

Note: See subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010