Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 39 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 25 June 2009
 
LINDSAY TANNER
Minister for Finance and Deregulation
 
Part 1        Preliminary
1.1           Name of Determination
                This Determination is the Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 39 of 2008-2009).
1.2           Commencement
                This Determination commences on 30 June 2009.
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 determinations that reduce the appropriation items for the agencies listed in Schedule 1 by the amounts indicated in Column 5 of each provision.
1.5           Notes on the Instrument
                Schedule 1 to the instrument contains Determinations which list the agencies to which each Determination applies.  
                Each 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
                A Determination made under subsection 13(2) is a Legislative Instrument and is disallowable.
1.7           Reductions in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
                Schedule 1 contains reduction determinations for agencies for an administered assets and liabilities item and other departmental items appropriated by Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009.
 
Schedule 1     Reductions in Appropriation Act
(No. 2) 2008-2009
(Part 1.7)
 
HEALTH AND AGEING PORTFOLIO
 
[1]        Department of Health and Ageing
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Department of Health and Ageing
 
Administered assets and liabilities item for the Department of Health and Ageing in Appropriation Act
(No. 2) 2008-2009
Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
Minister for Health and Ageing
17,492,000

 
TREASURY PORTFOLIO
 
[2]        Australian Bureau of Statistics
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Australian Bureau of Statistics
 
Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Australian Bureau of Statistics in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008‑2009
Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
Treasurer
3,153,000

 
[3]        Australian Securities and Investments Commission
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Australian Securities and Investments Commission
 
Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008‑2009
Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
Treasurer
571,000

 
 
[4]        Australian Taxation Office
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Australian Taxation Office
 
Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Australian Taxation Office in Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008‑2009
Subsection 13(2) of Appropriation Act (No. 2) 2008-2009
Treasurer
10,035,000