Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 8 of 2011-2012) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 8 of 2011-2012)

Annual Appropriation Acts

I, William Richard Shorten, Acting Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012.

Dated 20 January 2012

WILLIAM RICHARD SHORTEN

Acting Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Part 1              Preliminary

1              Name

This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 8 of 2011-2012).

2              Commencement

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

3              Legislative Authority

(1) Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a written determination reducing the 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.

(4)   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

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.

6              Disallowance

This determination is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

7              Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012

Schedule 1 reduces the departmental item for the Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012.

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2011-2012

(Clause 7)

[1]       EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS  PORTFOLIO

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Agency	Appropriation	Requested by	Reduction Amount $
Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency	Departmental item for the Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012	Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research	3,786,000

See subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012.