EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Finance and Deregulation
The instrument to which this explanatory statement relates | Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request |
Date instrument was made | 5 August 2011 |
The legislative authority under which the instrument is made
| Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010; and subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010 enable the Minister for Finance and Deregulation (Finance Minister) to make a determination reducing a 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. Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2009-2010 enables the Finance Minister to make a determination reducing the other departmental item (Equity Injections) for an agency by the amount specified in the Determination, upon receipt of a written request from the Minister responsible for that agency. Determinations made under this subsection are legislative instruments and are disallowable. |
Purpose and effect of the instrument
| The purpose of the instrument is to reduce appropriation items that the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship has advised the Finance Minister are surplus to the requirements of the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC). Schedule 1 determines that the departmental item for DIAC in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010 be reduced by $930,279.59. Schedule 2 determines that the departmental item for DIAC in Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009-2010 be reduced by $18,604,720.41. Schedule 3 determines that the other departmental item (Equity Injections) for DIAC in Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2009-2010 be reduced by $8,656,000.00. |
Background | The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship wrote to the Finance Minister on 11 July 2011 requesting a determination to reduce DIAC’s appropriations. The reduction in the departmental appropriation represents excess appropriation provided to DIAC for depreciation/amortisation expense and for equity injection for the completion of capital works on Christmas Island. |
Notes on the Instrument | The Schedules to the Instrument contain 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. In accordance with the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, DIAC was consulted in the preparation of this Instrument. |