Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 4 of 2010-2011) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 4 of 2010-2011)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Penelope Ying Yen Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under the following provisions:

• subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010; and

• subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004‑2005.

Dated 1^st February 2011

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. 4 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 in writing 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) Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004-2005 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a determination in writing reducing an administered assets and liabilities item for an agency by the amount specified in the Determination, upon receipt of a written request from the Minister responsible for that agency.

(3)   Appropriation 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 items for the agency listed in the Schedules by the amount indicated in Column 4 of each item.

5              Notes

The Schedules contain tables listing the affected agency in column 1, the Appropriation Acts and appropriation items in column 2, which through the request by the responsible Ministers in column 3, are reduced by the amounts in column 4.

6              Disallowance

Determinations made under:

·subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010; and

·subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004‑2005.

are legislative instruments and are disallowable.

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

Schedule 1 reduces the departmental item for the Attorney-General’s Department in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010.

8              Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004-2005

Schedule 2 reduces the administered assets and liabilities item for the Attorney-General’s Department in Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004-2005.

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

(Clause 7)

[1]            ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PORTFOLIO

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Agency	Appropriation	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Attorney-General’s Department	Departmental item for the Attorney-General’s Department in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010	Attorney-General	805,257.55

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

Schedule 2     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 4) 2004-2005

(Clause 8)

[1]            ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S PORTFOLIO

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Agency	Appropriation	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Attorney-General’s Department	Administered Assets and Liabilities item for the Attorney-General’s Department in Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004‑2005	Attorney-General	20,200,000

Note 1: See subsection 11(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2004‑2005.