Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 8 of 2011-2012)
Annual Appropriation Acts
I, William Richard Shorten, Acting Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012.
 
Dated 20 January 2012
WILLIAM RICHARD SHORTEN
Acting Minister for Finance and Deregulation
Part 1              Preliminary
1              Name
This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 8 of 2011-2012).
2              Commencement
This Determination commences on the day on which it is made.
3              Legislative Authority
(1)   Subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a written determination reducing the 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.
(4)   Reduction provisions are included in the annual Appropriation Acts to enable excess departmental appropriation items, administered assets and liabilities items, and other departmental items to be extinguished.
4              Purpose
This Determination reduces the appropriation item for the agency listed in the Schedule by the amount indicated in Column 4.
5              Notes
The Schedule 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.
6              Disallowance
This determination is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.
7              Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012
Schedule 1 reduces the departmental item for the Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012.
               

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2011-2012
(Clause 7)
 
[1]       EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE RELATIONS  PORTFOLIO

Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4

Agency
Appropriation
Requested
by
Reduction Amount $

Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency
Departmental item for the Tertiary Education Quality Skills Agency in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012
Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Science and Research
3,786,000

See subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2011-2012.