Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 Determination 2012/01 – Section 32 (Transfer of Functions from HEALTH to ANPHA)

 The instrument to which this explanatory statement relates

Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 Determination 2012/01 – Section 32 (Transfer of Functions from HEALTH to ANPHA)

Date instrument was made

20 January 2012

The legislative authority under which the instrument is made

Subsection 32(2) of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation (Finance Minister) to determine that one or more Schedules to one or more Appropriation Acts are amended in relation to the transfer of a function from one agency to another.

Under section 62 of the FMA Act the Finance Minister has delegated this power to the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Deregulation (Finance). Under section 53 of the FMA Act, the Secretary of Finance has delegated this power to certain officials within Finance.

Purpose and effect of the instrument

Schedule 1 of this Instrument amends Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012 to transfer an amount of $480,000.00 of the administered item for the Department of Health and Ageing (HEALTH) alongside Outcome 1 to the administered item for the Australian National Preventive Health Agency (ANPHA) alongside Outcome 1.

The effect of this schedule is to transfer appropriations relating to the development and management of the National Healthy Workplace Employer Awards within the Healthy Workers Initiative, under the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health function from Health to ANPHA.

Background

Responsibilities for the development and management of the National Healthy Workplace Employer Awards within the Healthy Workers Initiative, under the National Partnership Agreement on Preventive Health function was transferred from HEALTH to ANPHA due to a request from the Health and Ageing Minister to the Prime Minister. This transfer request was approved on 26 September 2011.

Notes on the Instrument

In accordance with Part 3 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, HEALTH and ANPHA were consulted in the preparation of this instrument.  This Determination is a legislative instrument for the purposes of section 5 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.