Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 7 of 2009-2010) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 7 of 2009-2010)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004.

Dated March 31^st 2010

LINDSAY TANNER

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Part 1              Preliminary

1              Name

This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 7 of 2009-2010).

2              Commencement

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

3              Legislative Authority

Subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a determination reducing an other 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.

The provision is included in the Appropriation Acts to enable excess departmental appropriation items to be extinguished.

4              Purpose

This Determination reduces the appropriation item for the agency listed in Schedule 1 by the amount indicated in Column 5 of the table in Schedule 1.

5              Notes

Schedule 1 contains a table listing the affected agency in column 1, the Appropriation Act and appropriation item in column 2, the legislative authority in column 3, which through the request by the responsible Minister in column 4, is reduced by the amount in column 5.

This Determination reflects agency 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.

6              Disallowance

A determination made under subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004 is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

7              Reductions in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2003-20044

Schedule 1 contains detail on the reduction determination for the Health Insurance Commission for the departmental item appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2003-2004.

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 2) 2003-2004

(Part 7)

HEALTH AND AGEING PORTFOLIO

[1]       Health Insurance Commission

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Agency	Appropriation	Authority	Requested By	Reduction Amount $
Health Insurance Commission	Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Health Insurance Commission in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2003-2004	Subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2003-2004	Minister for Human Services	22,000,000