Instrument to Reduce Appropriations (No. 1 of 2013-2014) (Cth)

Instrument to Reduce Appropriations (No. 1 of 2013-2014)

Annual Appropriation Acts

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

• section 10 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013;

• section 12 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013;

• section 13 of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013;

• section 11 of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2012-2013;

• section 13 of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013;

• section 10 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012;

• section 11 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012;

• section 13 of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2011-2012;

• section 10 of Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2011-2012.

Dated  5^th  August 2013

PENELOPE YING YEN WONG

Minister for Finance and Deregulation

1. Name of Instrument

This is the Instrument to Reduce Appropriations (No. 1 of 2013‑2014).

1. Commencement

This Instrument commences on the day it is registered.

Note      Section 42 (disallowance) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 applies to this Instrument (despite subsection 44(2) of that Act which exempts certain legislative instruments from disallowance).
However, Part 6 (sunsetting) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 does not apply to this Instrument. 

1. Determinations

(1) For the purposes of subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013, it is determined that the departmental items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(2) For the purposes of subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013, it is determined that the CAC Act body payment items for the bodies specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(3) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013, it is determined that the administered assets and liabilities items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(4) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013, it is determined that the other departmental items (Equity Injections) for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 4 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(5) For the purposes of subsection 11(2) of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2012‑2013, it is determined that the departmental items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 5 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(6) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013, it is determined that the administered assets and liabilities item for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 6 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(7) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013, it is determined that the other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 7 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(8) For the purposes of subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012, it is determined that the departmental items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 8 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(9) For the purposes of paragraph 11(2)(a) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012, it is determined that subsection 11(1) of that Act applies in relation to the administered items specified in column 1 of Schedule 9 to this Instrument for the agencies specified in column 2 of that Schedule as if the amounts specified in the 2011-2012 annual reports of those agencies in respect of those items were the amounts specified in column 3 of that Schedule.

(10) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2011-2012, it is determined that the other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 10 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

(11) For the purposes of subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2011-2012, it is determined that the departmental item for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 11 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.

Note         The eleven Schedules of this Instrument reduce excess appropriations by $760,744,020.14. The breakdown of amounts reduced by each Schedule is available in the Explanatory Statement to this Instrument.

Schedule 1 Reduction to departmental items – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(1))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	AusAID	42
2	Australian Bureau of Statistics	1,481
3	Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research	37
4	Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity	20
5	Australian Communications and Media Authority	256
6	Australian Competition and Consumer Commission	703
7	Australian Crime Commission	338
8	Australian Federal Police	13,612
9	Australian Fisheries Management Authority	79
10	Australian Human Rights Commission	63
11	Australian Institute of Criminology	23
12	Australian Institute of Family Studies	13
13	Australian Law Reform Commission	10
14	Australian National Preventive Health Agency	25
15	Australian Office of Financial Management	52
16	Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority	20
17	Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority	6
18	Australian Public Service Commission	112
19	Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency	88
20	Australian Secret Intelligence Service	1,173
21	Australian Securities and Investments Commission	5,842
22	Australian Security Intelligence Organisation	10,226
23	Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority	45
24	Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre	201
25	Australian Transport Safety Bureau	77
26	Bureau of Meteorology	1,402
27	Cancer Australia	43
28	Commonwealth Grants Commission	30
29	Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee	5
30	Defence Materiel Organisation	17,362
31	Department of Defence	374,515
32	Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations	1,263
33	Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs	1,827
34	Department of Finance and Deregulation	500
35	Department of Immigration and Citizenship	16,539
36	Department of Infrastructure and Transport	1,296
37	Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport	100
38	Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities	3,957
39	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet	2,401
40	Department of Veterans' Affairs	464
41	Workplace Gender Equality Agency (formerly the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency)	20
42	Fair Work Commission (formerly Fair Work Australia)	255
43	Geoscience Australia	636
44	Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority	118
45	High Court of Australia	82
46	Independent Hospital Pricing Authority	6
47	Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia	161
48	Inspector General of Taxation	12
49	Murray-Darling Basin Authority	188
50	National Archives of Australia	13
51	National Competition Council	13
52	National Health and Medical Research Council	533
53	National Mental Health Commission	11
54	National Water Commission	35
55	Office of National Assessments	147
56	Office of Parliamentary Counsel	38
57	Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board	10
58	Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board	17
59	Office of the Australian Information Commissioner	37
60	Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman	89
61	Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions	330
62	Office of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate	103
63	Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman	702
64	Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security	10
65	Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor‑General	75
66	Old Parliament House	59
67	Private Health Insurance Ombudsman	7
68	Productivity Commission	172
69	Professional Services Review	20
70	Safe Work Australia	1

Schedule 2    Reduction to CAC Act body payment items – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(2))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Body	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Aboriginal Hostels Limited	63
2	Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies	14
3	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare	53
4	Australian Institute of Marine Science	78
5	Australian National Maritime Museum	76
6	Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation	1,617
7	Australian Sports Commission	445
8	Australian War Memorial	45
9	Civil Aviation Safety Authority	154
10	Comcare	21
11	Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation	2,117
12	Food Standards Australia New Zealand	63
13	Indigenous Business Australia	147
14	National Film and Sound Archive	100
15	National Gallery of Australia	172
16	National Library of Australia	82
17	National Museum of Australia	70
18	Screen Australia	17
19	Tourism Australia	522

Schedule 3 Reduction to administered assets and liabilities items – Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(3))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Attorney-General's Department	126,356
2	Department of Finance and Deregulation	336
3	Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities	27,391
4	Department of the Treasury	500

Schedule 4 Reduction to other departmental items (Equity Injections) – Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(4))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research	158
2	Australian Federal Police	1,000
3	Department of Finance and Deregulation	36,009
4	Department of Health and Ageing	7,374
5	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet	7,900

Schedule 5 Reduction to departmental items – Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(5))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Department of Parliamentary Services	917
2	Parliamentary Budget Office	20

Schedule 6 Reduction to administered assets and liabilities item – Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(6))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Attorney-General's Department	30,135

Schedule 7 Reduction to other departmental item (Equity Injections) – Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013

(Clause 3(7))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Department of Defence	12,485

Schedule 8 Reduction to departmental items – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012

(Clause 3(8))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($)
1	Australian Trade Commission	1,524,820.98
2	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	26,302,578.00
3	Department of Human Services	7,232,000.00
4	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet	4,304,000.00

Schedule 9 Amounts taken to be the required amounts – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012

(Clause 3(9))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Item	Appropriation item	Agency	Revised Amount Required ($)
1	Administered item for Outcome 1	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	244,039,197.41
2	Administered item for Outcome 2	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	228,932.00

Schedule 10 Reduction to other departmental item (Equity Injections) – Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2011-2012

(Clause 3(10))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($’000)
1	Clean Energy Regulator	3,638

Schedule 11 Reduction to departmental item – Appropriation Act (No.5) 2011-2012

(Clause 3(11))

Reduction of appropriations
Column 1	Column 2
Item	Agency	Reduction Amount ($)
1	Department of Health and Ageing	1,072,064