Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 5 of 2010-2011)
Annual Appropriation Acts
 
I, Penelope Ying Yen Wong, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010.
 
Dated 20th January 2011
 
PENELOPE YING YEN WONG
Minister for Finance and Deregulation
Part 1              Preliminary

1              Name
                This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 5 of 2010-2011).
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) 2009-2010 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a determination in writing 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.
(2)   Appropriation 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 items for the agency listed in the Schedules by the amount indicated in Column 4 of each item.
5              Notes
The Schedules contain tables listing the affected agency in column 1, the Appropriation Acts and appropriation items in column 2, which through the request by the responsible Ministers in column 3, are reduced by the amounts in column 4.
6              Disallowance
                Determinations made under subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010 are legislative instruments and are disallowable.
7              Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010
                Schedule 1 reduces the departmental item for the Department of Human Services in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009-2010.
 

Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 1) 2009-2010
(Clause 7)
[1]            HUMAN SERVICES PORTFOLIO
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4

Agency
Appropriation
Requested By
Reduction Amount
$

Department of Human Services
Departmental item for the Department of Human Services in Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010
Minister for Human Services
8,740,098.38

Note 1: See subsection 10(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2009‑2010.