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Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 Determination 2008/66 – Section 32 (Transfer of Functions from Environment to MDBA)

Authoritative Version
2008/66 Determinations/Financial (Other) as made
This Determination transfers appropriations related to the transfer of the managing water resources in the Murray-Darling function from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
Administered by: Finance
General Comments: This Determination commences, or is taken to have commenced, as follows: (a) on 3 December 2007 — sections 1, 2 and 3 and Schedule 1; (b) on 25 January 2008 — section 4 and Schedule 2; (c) on 1 April 2008 — section 5 and Schedule 3; (d) on 17 April 2008 – section 6 and Schedule 4; (e) on 8 September 2008 – section 7 and Schedule 5.
Exempt from sunsetting by the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 s 32(7)
Registered 30 Oct 2008
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR10-Nov-2008
Tabled Senate10-Nov-2008
Date of repeal 19 Mar 2014
Repealed by Finance (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2014

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

 

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Finance and Deregulation

 

FMA Act Determination 2008/66— Section 32 (Transfer of Functions from Environment to MDBA)

 

Subsection 32(2) of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) provides that the Minister for Finance and Deregulation (Finance Minister) may, by determination, amend Schedules to annual Appropriation Acts to transfer appropriations in connection with the transfer of a function between agencies under the FMA Act. The determination has the effect of amending the Schedules concerned in accordance with the determination.

 

This power has been delegated from the Finance Minister to the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Deregulation under section 62 of the FMA Act.

 

The purpose of this Determination is to allow a transfer of appropriations from the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Environment) to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).  The appropriation amounts transferred are as follows:

 

·        From annual Appropriation Act (No. 1) 2007-2008 an amount of $2,566,000 of the departmental item for Environment to the departmental item for MDBA; and

 

In accordance with the Legislative Instruments Act 2003, Environment and MDBA were consulted in the preparation of this instrument.

 

The Determination is a legislative instrument for the purposes of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003.