Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 10 of 2008-2009)

The instrument to which this explanatory statement relates

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 10 of 2008-2009)

Date instrument was made

18 December 2008

The legislative authority under which the instrument is made

Subsection 9(1) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007‑2008 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation (Finance Minister) to make a determination reducing a departmental item for an agency. 

A determination made under subsection 9(1) must be in accordance with a written request made to the Finance Minister by the responsible Minister for the agency.

A Determination made under subsection 9(1) is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.

Purpose and effect of the instrument

Schedule 1, Item 1 of the instrument determines that the departmental item for the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008 be reduced by $345,000.

The effect of this instrument is to reduce the departmental item for the ACC in Schedule 1 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008 by the amount of $345,000.

Background

The Minister for Home Affairs wrote to the Finance Minister on 20 October 2008 requesting a determination to reduce the ACC’s departmental item under Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008. 

The requested reduction relates to net savings identified after the application of the one-off two per cent efficiency dividend.

Notes on the Instrument

Schedule 1 to the instrument contains the Determination which provides that the agency in column 1, has the appropriation item in column 2, under the legislative authority in column 3, through the request by the responsible Minister in Column 4, reduced, by the amount in column 5.

In accordance with the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, the ACC were consulted in the preparation of this instrument.