The instrument to which this explanatory statement relates

Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 3 of 2011-2012)

Date instrument was made

5 August 2011

The legislative authority under which the instrument is made

Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1)
2010-2011 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a written 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.

Determinations made under subsection 10(2) are legislative instruments and are disallowable.

Purpose and effect of the instrument

The purpose of the instrument is to reduce the appropriation item that the Acting Minister for Health and Ageing has advised the Minister for Finance and Deregulation is surplus to the requirements of the Department of Health and Ageing (Health).

Schedule 1 of the Instrument determines that the departmental item for Health in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2010-2011 be reduced by $439,000.

Background

The Acting Minister for Health and Ageing wrote to the Minister for Finance and Deregulation on 22 July 2011 requesting a determination to reduce Health’s departmental item in Appropriation Act (No. 1)
2010-2011.

The reduction in the departmental appropriation represents funding provided to Health in the 2010-11 Budget for the Dental Internship measure, however the decision was subsequently reversed and a new package provided for in the 2011-12 Budget.

Notes on the Instrument

The Schedule to the Instrument 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.

In accordance with the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, the Department of Heath and Ageing was consulted in the preparation of this Instrument.