Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 2 of 2012-2013) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 2 of 2012-2013)

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) 2010-2011.

Dated   20 December 2012

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 2012-2013).

1. Commencement

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

1. Legislative Authority

(1)Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2010-2011 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a written 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, other departmental items and CAC Act Body payment items to be extinguished.

1. Purpose

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

1. Notes

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.

1. Disallowance

This Determination is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

1. Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2010-2011

Schedule 1 reduces the departmental item for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2010-2011.

Schedule 1      Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2010-2011

(Clause 7)

[1]       EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS PORTFOLIO

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Agency	Appropriation	Requested by	Reduction Amount $
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations	Departmental item for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, Appropriation Act  (No. 1) 2010-2011	Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth	1,035,000.00

Note 1: See subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2010-2011.