Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 20 of 2008-2009) Annual Appropriation Acts
I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Instrument to effect a determination under subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009.     Dated March 25th 2009   LINDSAY TANNER Minister for Finance and Deregulation  
Part 1        Preliminary
1.1           Name of Determination                 This Instrument is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 20 of 2008-2009).
1.2           Commencement                 This Determination commences on the day after registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI).
1.3           The Legislative Authority under which the Instrument is made Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009 enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a determination reducing an administered assets and liabilities item or an other 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. The provision was included in the Appropriation Acts to enable excess appropriation items to be extinguished.
1.4           Purpose of the Instrument                 The instrument contains a determination that reduces the appropriation item for the agency listed in Schedule 1 by the amount indicated in Column 5 of the provision.
1.5           Notes on the Instrument                 Schedule 1 to the Instrument contains the determination which lists the agency to which the Determination applies.                 The agency’s reduction determination table is contained within an individual provision. Each provision provides that the agency in column 1, has the appropriation item in column 2, under the legislative authority in column 3, through the request by the responsible Minister in Column 4, reduced, by the amount in column 5. The instrument reflects agency and portfolio names contained in the Appropriation Acts under which reductions are made, noting that these may have subsequently been changed by, for example, machinery of government changes.
1.6           Disallowance                 Subsection 13(6) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009 provides that a determination made under subsection 13(2) is a legislative instrument and despite subsection 44(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, (which provides that Instruments made under annual Appropriation Acts are not subject to disallowance under section 42 of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003) section 42 of that Act applies to this Determination. 1.7           Reduction in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009 Schedule 1 contains a reduction determination for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for the other departmental item (Previous Years’ Outputs) appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009.
 
Schedule 1     Reduction in Appropriation Act
(No. 2) 2008-2009 (Part 1.7)   PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET PORTFOLIO   [1]        Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet  
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5
Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Other departmental item (Previous Years’ Outputs) for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
219,309.00