Determination to Reduce Departmental and Administered Appropriations in Previous Appropriation Acts (No. 2 of 2009-2010) (Cth)

Determination to Reduce Departmental and Administered Appropriations in Previous Appropriation Acts (No. 2 of 2009-2010)

I, LINDSAY TANNER, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 14(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010.

Dated July 30^th 2010

Lindsay Tanner

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

Part 1              Preliminary

1. Name of Determination

This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Departmental and Administered Appropriations in Previous Appropriation Acts (No. 2 of 2009-2010).

1. Commencement

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

3              Purpose

The purpose of this Determination is to reduce administered appropriations previously appropriated by the Parliament, in relation to the depreciation and make good amount that has not yet been applied by the specified agency.

Note 1    This Determination contains one schedule which reduces various administered appropriations of the specified agency.

Note 2    depreciation and make good amount is defined in subsection 14(6) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010

agency is defined in section 5 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

1. Legislative Authority

Subsection 14(1) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010 enables the Finance Minister to determine, by writing, that a departmental item or an administered item for an agency in a previous appropriation Act is reduced by the amount specified in the written determination.

Note: Subsection 14(4) of the Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010 provides that a determination made under subsections 14(1) is a legislative instrument that is subject to disallowance under section 42 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, but not subject to sunsetting under Part 6, of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.

5              Reductions in administered items by the Legislative Authority of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009‑2010

Schedule 1 reduces the specified administered items of the specified agency appropriated in previous appropriation Acts amounting to a total of $1,911,740.16 of appropriated public money.

Note 1    Schedule 1 contains detail on the reduction determination for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government, using the portfolio name and agency name as at the date of the registration of this Determination on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments. Schedule 1 contains a table listing the affected agency within the portfolio (column 1), the relevant appropriation item to be reduced (column 2), the legislative authority relied upon to effect the reduction (column 3) and the amount by which the appropriation item is reduced (column 4).

Note 2    In the table in Schedule 1 some appropriation items (column 2) refer to a different agency than the agency name (column 1). Historical consolidations of the Administrative Arrangements Order assist in understanding changes that have occurred to functions, agencies and portfolios.

Schedule 1     Reduction in administered items in previous Acts under subsection 14(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010

(clause 5)

[1]   INFRASTRUCTURE, TRANSPORT, REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIO

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Agency	Agency Appropriation	Authority	Reduction Amount ($)
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government	Administered item for Outcome 1 for the Department of Transport and Regional Services in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1999‑2000	Subsection 14(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010	123,581.49
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government	Administered item for Outcome 1 for the Department of Transport and Regional Services in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000‑2001	Subsection 14(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010	32,967.18
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government	Administered item for Outcome 1 for the Department of Transport and Regional Services in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2001‑2002	Subsection 14(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010	11,394.21
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government	Administered item for Outcome 1 for the Department of Transport and Regional Services in Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2005‑2006	Subsection 14(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010	1,740,126.43
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government	Administered item for Outcome 3 for the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2008-2009	Subsection 14(1) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010	3,670.85

Note       In Appropriation Act (No. 1) 1999-2000, Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2000-2001, Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2001-2002, Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2005-2006, Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2006-2007, and Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008 the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government was known as the Department of Transport and Regional Services within the Transport and Regional Services portfolio. On 3 December 2007, the Administrative Arrangements Order restructured the portfolio responsibilities of the department, and from that date, the department commenced using its current name.