EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Issued by the authority of the Minister for Finance and Deregulation
The instrument to which this explanatory statement relates | Determination to Reduce Departmental and Administered Appropriations in Previous Appropriation Acts (No. 1 of 2009‑2010) |
Date instrument was made | 13 May 2010 |
The legislative authority under which the instrument is made | Subsection 14(1) of annual Appropriation Act (No.3) 2009‑2010 and subsection 18(1) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2009‑2010 enable the Minister for Finance and Deregulation (Finance Minister) to make a determination reducing a departmental item or an administered item for an agency in previous appropriation Acts. The provisions were included to allow the Finance Minister to reduce amounts identified by the Finance Minister as having been appropriated to agencies for depreciation and make good, but not yet applied by agencies. Determinations made under subsection 14(1) and subsection 18(1) are legislative instruments and are disallowable. |
Purpose and effect of the instrument | Schedule 1, Item 1 of the Instrument determines that the departmental items and administered items in previous annual appropriation Acts for the listed agencies be reduced by a total amount of $512,616,399.31. This represents amounts identified by the Finance Minister as having been provided as depreciation and make good amounts for agencies, but not yet applied by agencies. Subsection 14(6) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 3) 2009‑2010 and subsection 18(6) of annual Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2009‑2010 define the depreciation and make good amount. The Minister has identified these amounts which are reproduced in the Attachment. |
Background | With the introduction of accrual appropriations in 1999‑2000, appropriations have included amounts for expected depreciation and make good expenses. Since then, unspent amounts have accumulated which have not yet been applied by agencies. That arrangement ceases as of the 2010 Budget and so agencies no longer need to retain access to those appropriation amounts. Therefore, the 2009-10 Additional Estimates Acts provided a process to reduce those amounts at law. |
Notes on the Instrument | Schedule 1 to the Instrument contains a table listing the affected agency in column 1, the Appropriation Act and appropriation item in column 2, the legislative authority in column 3, is reduced by the amount in column 4. In accordance with the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, the affected agencies were consulted in the preparation of this Instrument. |
ATTACHMENT
Agency Name | Amount |
Attorney-General’s Portfolio |
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Attorney-General’s Department | 39,182,000.00 |
Administrative Appeals Tribunal | 976,000.00 |
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity | 522,000.00 |
Australian Human Rights Commission | 1,227,000.00 |
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation | 49,050,000.00 |
Family Court of Australia | 12,610,000.00 |
Office of Parliamentary Counsel | 1,398,000.00 |
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions | 5,487,000.00 |
Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Portfolio |
|
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy | 20,904,000.00 |
Australian Communications and Media Authority | 2,828,000.00 |
Climate Change and Energy Efficiency Portfolio |
|
Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency | 74,000.00 |
Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator | 735,000.00 |
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Portfolio |
|
Australian Industrial Registry | 5,504,000.00 |
Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner | 5,077,000.00 |
Office of the Workplace Ombudsman | 27,408,000.00 |
Safe Work Australia | 1,161,000.00 |
Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts Portfolio |
|
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts | 4,905,000.00 |
Bureau of Meteorology | 6,724,000.00 |
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority | 635,000.00 |
National Water Commission | 246,000.00 |
Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Portfolio |
|
Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency | 595,000.00 |
Finance and Deregulation Portfolio |
|
Department of Finance and Deregulation | 50,884,000.00 |
Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio |
|
AusAID | 2,511,000.00 |
Australian Secret Intelligence Service | 25,983,000.00 |
Health and Ageing Portfolio |
|
Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority | 171,000.00 |
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency | 1,266,000.00 |
Human Services Portfolio |
|
Department of Human Services | 4,002,000.00 |
Centrelink | 4,347,000.00 |
Medicare Australia | 27,016,000.00 |
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development Portfolio |
|
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government | 36,257,399.31 |
Australian Transport Safety Bureau | 1,225,000.00 |
Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Portfolio |
|
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research | 14,259,000.00 |
Australian Research Council | 172,000.00 |
Prime Minister and Cabinet Portfolio |
|
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet | 9,991,000.00 |
Australian Institute of Family Studies | 9,000.00 |
National Archives of Australia | 86,021,000.00 |
Office of National Assessments | 6,964,000.00 |
Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security | 36,000.00 |
Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General | 1,344,000.00 |
Old Parliament House | 3,349,000.00 |
Resources, Energy and Tourism Portfolio |
|
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism | 1,170,000.00 |
Geoscience Australia | 7,550,000.00 |
Treasury Portfolio |
|
Department of the Treasury | 643,000.00 |
Australian Office of Financial Management | 2,177,000.00 |
Australian Taxation Office | 1,163,000.00 |
Commonwealth Grants Commission | 561,000.00 |
Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee | 49,000.00 |
Inspector General of Taxation | 50,000.00 |
National Competition Council | 134,000.00 |
Productivity Commission | 5,199,000.00 |
Parliamentary Departments |
|
Department of Parliamentary Services | 27,232,000.00 |
House of Representatives | 3,633,000.00 |
Total | 512,616,399.31 |