Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 4 of 2008-2009) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 4 of 2008-2009)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Instrument to effect a determination under subsection 10(2) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 3)
2003-2004.

Dated 18 August 2008

LINDSAY TANNER

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Part 1        Preliminary

1.1           Name of Determination

This Instrument is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 4 of 2008-2009).

1.2           Commencement

This Determination commences the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI).

1.3           The Legislative Authority under which the Instrument is made

Subsection 10(2) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2003-2004 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a determination reducing a departmental item in a prior years annual Appropriation Act, listed in subsection 10(1) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 3) 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 annual Appropriation Acts to enable excess departmental appropriation items to be extinguished.

1.4           Purpose of the Instrument

The Instrument contains a determination that reduces the appropriation item for the entity listed in Schedule 1 by the amount indicated in Column 5 of the provision.

1.5           Notes on the Instrument

Schedule 1 of the Instrument contains the Determination which 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 annual 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

A determination made under subsection 10(2) is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

1.7           Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2002-2003

Schedule 1 contains a determination for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs for the departmental item appropriated by annual Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2002-2003.

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2002-2003

(Part 1.7)

IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULTURAL AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS PORTFOLIO

[1]        Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Entity	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs	Departmental item for the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2002-2003	Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2003-2004	Minister for Immigration and Citizenship	28,395,000