Determination to Reduce Appropriations Upon Request (No. 14 of 2007-2008)
Annual Appropriation Acts
I, Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, make this Determination under subsection 11(1) of the following annual Appropriation Acts:
Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2005-2006
Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008
 
Dated 24 June 2008
 
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. 14 of 2007-2008).
1.2           Commencement
                This Determination commences on 30 June 2008.
1.3           The Legislative Authority under which the Instrument is made
Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) enables the Minister for Finance and Deregulation to make a Determination reducing a departmental item, 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 responsible Presiding Officer.
The provision was included in the Appropriation Acts to enable excess departmental appropriation items to be extinguished.
1.4           Purpose of the Instrument
                The instrument determines that the appropriation items for the agencies listed in the Schedules are reduced by the amounts indicated in Column 5 of each provision.
1.5           Notes on the Instrument
                The Schedules to the instrument list the agencies to which a 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 Presiding Officer in Column 4, reduced by the amount in column 5.
1.6           Disallowance
                Subsection 11(8) of the Appropriation Acts that this determination is made under provides that a determination made under subsection 11(1) 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 (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2005-2006
Schedule 1 contains a reduction determination for an agency for an other departmental item (Equity Injections) appropriated by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2005-2006.
1.8           Reductions in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008
 
Schedule 2 contains reduction determinations for agencies for departmental items appropriated by Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008.
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Schedule 1     Reductions in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act
(No. 1) 2005-2006
(Part 1.7)
 
 
[1]        Department of Parliamentary Services       
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Department of Parliamentary Services
Other departmental item (Equity Injections) for the Department of Parliamentary Services in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2005-2006
Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2005-2006
President of the Senate
 
Speaker of the House of Representatives
126,638.05

 
 
 
Schedule 2     Reductions in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act
(No. 1) 2007-2008
(Part 1.8)
 
 
[1]        Department of Parliamentary Services       
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Department of Parliamentary Services
Departmental item for the Department of Parliamentary Services in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008
Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008
President of the Senate
 
Speaker of the House of Representatives
537,000

 
 
[2]        Department of the House of Representatives        
 
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5

Agency
Appropriation
Authority
Requested By
Reduction Amount $

Department of the House of Representatives
Departmental item for the Department of the House of Representatives in Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008
Subsection 11(1) of Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Act (No. 1) 2007-2008
Speaker of the House of Representatives
103,000