I, NICK MINCHIN, Minister for Finance and Administration, make this Determination under subsections 20 (2) and (3) of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

Dated                        8 November 2006

Nick Minchin

1              Name of Determination

                This Determination is the Financial Management and Accountability Determination 2006/78 — Australian Protective Service Account Variation and Abolition 2006.

2              Commencement

                This Determination commences at the time at which subsection 22 (4) of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 is complied with.

Note    This Determination takes effect in accordance with section 22 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997. The Parliament must consider the Determination before it can take effect, and either House may pass a resolution disallowing the Determination. If neither House passes such a resolution, the Determination takes effect on the day immediately after the last day upon which such a resolution could have been passed.

3              Variation

                Schedule 1 varies the determination entitled Initial Determination to Establish Components of the Reserved Money Fund which established, among others, the Australian Protective Service Account.

4              Abolition

                The Australian Protective Service Account is abolished with effect from the time at which:

(a)              Schedule 1 has taken effect; and

(b)             the balance of the appropriation for the Australian Protective Service Account reaches zero.

Schedule 1        Variation

(section 3)

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[1]           Determination, attachment, Australian Federal Police, item for Australian Protective Service Reserve, second column

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For expenditure relating to:-

a.             (1) The provision of protective, guarding security and related services by the APS to the Commonwealth or to a Commonwealth body or to a company over which the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth body is able to exercise control, inside or outside Australia, and matters related thereto; (2) The provision of services referred to in (1) above to any other person or persons, inside or outside Australia, and matters related thereto.

b.            Reimbursement of any payments made on behalf of the APS up to 31 December 1992 out of moneys standing to the credit of the DAS Business Services Trust Account

(2)    Notional payments of moneys to the Official Public Account.

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(1)  For expenditure relating to:

(a)    the provision of protective, guarding security and related services by the APS to the Commonwealth or to a Commonwealth body or to a company over which the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth body is able to exercise control, inside or outside Australia, and matters relating to the provision of those services;

(b)   the provision of services referred to in (1)(a) to any other person or persons, inside or outside Australia, and matters relating thereto;

(c)    the reimbursement of any payments made on behalf of the APS up to 31 December 1992 out of moneys standing to the credit of the DAS Business Services Trust Account.

(2)  Notional payments of moneys to the Official Public Account.

(3)  To credit amounts to the Protective Services Special Account.