Instrument to Reduce Appropriations (No. 1 of 2013-2014)
Annual Appropriation Acts
I, Penelope Ying Yen Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make the determinations in this instrument under the following provisions:
· section 10 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013;
· section 12 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013;
· section 13 of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013;
· section 11 of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2012-2013;
· section 13 of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013;
· section 10 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012;
· section 11 of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012;
· section 13 of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2011-2012;
· section 10 of Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2011-2012.
Dated 5th August 2013
PENELOPE YING YEN WONG
Minister for Finance and Deregulation
1 Name of Instrument
This is the Instrument to Reduce Appropriations (No. 1 of 2013‑2014).
2 Commencement
This Instrument commences on the day it is registered.
Note Section 42 (disallowance) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 applies to this Instrument (despite subsection 44(2) of that Act which exempts certain legislative instruments from disallowance).
However, Part 6 (sunsetting) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 does not apply to this Instrument.
3 Determinations
(1) For the purposes of subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013, it is determined that the departmental items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(2) For the purposes of subsection 12(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013, it is determined that the CAC Act body payment items for the bodies specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(3) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013, it is determined that the administered assets and liabilities items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 3 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(4) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013, it is determined that the other departmental items (Equity Injections) for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 4 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(5) For the purposes of subsection 11(2) of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2012‑2013, it is determined that the departmental items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 5 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(6) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013, it is determined that the administered assets and liabilities item for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 6 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(7) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013, it is determined that the other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 7 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(8) For the purposes of subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012, it is determined that the departmental items for the agencies specified in column 1 of Schedule 8 to this Instrument are reduced by the amounts specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(9) For the purposes of paragraph 11(2)(a) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012, it is determined that subsection 11(1) of that Act applies in relation to the administered items specified in column 1 of Schedule 9 to this Instrument for the agencies specified in column 2 of that Schedule as if the amounts specified in the 2011-2012 annual reports of those agencies in respect of those items were the amounts specified in column 3 of that Schedule.
(10) For the purposes of subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2011-2012, it is determined that the other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 10 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
(11) For the purposes of subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2011-2012, it is determined that the departmental item for the agency specified in column 1 of Schedule 11 to this Instrument is reduced by the amount specified in column 2 of that Schedule.
Note The eleven Schedules of this Instrument reduce excess appropriations by $760,744,020.14. The breakdown of amounts reduced by each Schedule is available in the Explanatory Statement to this Instrument.
Schedule 1 Reduction to departmental items – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(1))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($’000)
1
AusAID
42
2
Australian Bureau of Statistics
1,481
3
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
37
4
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity
20
5
Australian Communications and Media Authority
256
6
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
703
7
Australian Crime Commission
338
8
Australian Federal Police
13,612
9
Australian Fisheries Management Authority
79
10
Australian Human Rights Commission
63
11
Australian Institute of Criminology
23
12
Australian Institute of Family Studies
13
13
Australian Law Reform Commission
10
14
Australian National Preventive Health Agency
25
15
Australian Office of Financial Management
52
16
Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority
20
17
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority
6
18
Australian Public Service Commission
112
19
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
88
20
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
1,173
21
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
5,842
22
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
10,226
23
Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority
45
24
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
201
25
Australian Transport Safety Bureau
77
26
Bureau of Meteorology
1,402
27
Cancer Australia
43
28
Commonwealth Grants Commission
30
29
Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee
5
30
Defence Materiel Organisation
17,362
31
Department of Defence
374,515
32
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
1,263
33
Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
1,827
34
Department of Finance and Deregulation
500
35
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
16,539
36
Department of Infrastructure and Transport
1,296
37
Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport
100
38
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
3,957
39
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
2,401
40
Department of Veterans' Affairs
464
41
Workplace Gender Equality Agency (formerly the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency)
20
42
Fair Work Commission (formerly Fair Work Australia)
255
43
Geoscience Australia
636
44
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
118
45
High Court of Australia
82
46
Independent Hospital Pricing Authority
6
47
Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia
161
48
Inspector General of Taxation
12
49
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
188
50
National Archives of Australia
13
51
National Competition Council
13
52
National Health and Medical Research Council
533
53
National Mental Health Commission
11
54
National Water Commission
35
55
Office of National Assessments
147
56
Office of Parliamentary Counsel
38
57
Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
10
58
Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board
17
59
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
37
60
Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman
89
61
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions
330
62
Office of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate
103
63
Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman
702
64
Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security
10
65
Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor‑General
75
66
Old Parliament House
59
67
Private Health Insurance Ombudsman
7
68
Productivity Commission
172
69
Professional Services Review
20
70
Safe Work Australia
1
Schedule 2 Reduction to CAC Act body payment items – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(2))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Body
Reduction
Amount ($’000)
1
Aboriginal Hostels Limited
63
2
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
14
3
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
53
4
Australian Institute of Marine Science
78
5
Australian National Maritime Museum
76
6
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
1,617
7
Australian Sports Commission
445
8
Australian War Memorial
45
9
Civil Aviation Safety Authority
154
10
Comcare
21
11
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2,117
12
Food Standards Australia New Zealand
63
13
Indigenous Business Australia
147
14
National Film and Sound Archive
100
15
National Gallery of Australia
172
16
National Library of Australia
82
17
National Museum of Australia
70
18
Screen Australia
17
19
Tourism Australia
522
Schedule 3 Reduction to administered assets and liabilities items – Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(3))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($’000)
1
Attorney-General's Department
126,356
2
Department of Finance and Deregulation
336
3
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
27,391
4
Department of the Treasury
500
Schedule 4 Reduction to other departmental items (Equity Injections) – Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(4))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction Amount ($’000)
1
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
158
2
Australian Federal Police
1,000
3
Department of Finance and Deregulation
36,009
4
Department of Health and Ageing
7,374
5
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
7,900
Schedule 5 Reduction to departmental items – Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(5))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($’000)
1
Department of Parliamentary Services
917
2
Parliamentary Budget Office
20
Schedule 6 Reduction to administered assets and liabilities item – Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(6))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($’000)
1
Attorney-General's Department
30,135
Schedule 7 Reduction to other departmental item (Equity Injections) – Appropriation Act (No. 4) 2012-2013
(Clause 3(7))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($’000)
1
Department of Defence
12,485
Schedule 8 Reduction to departmental items – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012
(Clause 3(8))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($)
1
Australian Trade Commission
1,524,820.98
2
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
26,302,578.00
3
Department of Human Services
7,232,000.00
4
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
4,304,000.00
Schedule 9 Amounts taken to be the required amounts – Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012
(Clause 3(9))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Item
Appropriation item
Agency
Revised Amount Required ($)
1
Administered item for
Outcome 1
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
244,039,197.41
2
Administered item for
Outcome 2
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
228,932.00
Schedule 10 Reduction to other departmental item (Equity Injections) – Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2011-2012
(Clause 3(10))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction Amount ($’000)
1
Clean Energy Regulator
3,638
Schedule 11 Reduction to departmental item – Appropriation Act (No. 5) 2011-2012
(Clause 3(11))
Reduction of appropriations
Column 1
Column 2
Item
Agency
Reduction
Amount ($)
1
Department of Health and Ageing
1,072,064
