Part 5 – Financial Information

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The MRT and the RRT are prescribed as a single agency, the Migration Review Tribunal and Refugee Review Tribunal’ (the MRT-RRT) for the purposes of the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act).

The operations of the MRT-RRT are funded through Appropriation Acts.

The following two tables are provided consistent with guidelines set out in Requirements for Annual Reports for Departments, Executive Agencies and FMA Act bodies, issued by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in June 2013. The tables do not form part of the audited financial statements set out in the following pages.

Table 15 – Agency resource statement 2012-13
		Actual Available appropriation for 2012–13 $’000	Payments made 2012–13 $’000	Balance remaining 2012–13 $’000
		(a)	(b)	(a) – (b)
Ordinary annual services¹
Departmental appropriation²		66,174
Section 32³		28,304
Sub total		94,478	69,614	24,864
Total		94,478	69,614	24,864
Administered expenses
Outcome 1		6,050	6,050	-
Total		6,050	6,050	-
Total ordinary annual services	A	100,528	75,664	24,864
Departmental non-operating
Equity injections		304	263	41
Total other services	B	304	263	41
Total Available Annual Appropriations and payments A+B		100,832	75,927	24,905

Appropriation Bill (No.1) 2012-13 and Appropriation Bill (No.3) 2012-13. This may also include Prior Year departmental appropriation and s31 relevant agency receipts. $5.616m of prior years’ appropriation meet criteria for a formal reduction in appropriations but at law this had not occurred before the end of the reporting period.
Includes an amount of $4.829m in 2012-13 for the Departmental Capital Budget. For accounting purposes this amount has been designated as ‘contributions by owners’.
The MRT-RRT received a section 32 (s32) Transfer of $28.304m, made under the FMA Act, from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) as a result of administrative arrangements on the transfer of the Independent Protection Assessment Office (IPAO).

Table 16 – Expenses and resources for outcome 1
Outcome 1: To provide correct and preferable decisions for visa applicants and sponsors through independent, fair, just, economical, informal and quick merits reviews of migration and refugee decisions.	Budget* 2012–13 $’000	Actual expenses 2012–13 $’000	Variation 2012–13 $’000
	(a)	(b)	(a) - (b)
Program 1.1: Final independent merits review of decisions concerning refugee status and the refusal or cancellation of migration and refugee visas.
Administered expenses
Special Appropriations	8,300	8,381	(81)
Departmental expenses
Departmental Appropriation¹	87,333	72,502	14,831
Total for Program 1.1	95,633	80,883	14,750
Total expenses for Outcome 1	95,633	80,883	14,750
		2011-12	2012-13
Average Staffing Level (number)		348	420

* Full year budget, including any subsequent adjustment made to the 2012-13 Budget.

1. Departmental Appropriation combines “Ordinary annual services (Appropriation Bill No. 1)”, “Revenue from independent sources (s31)” and a “s32 transfer” under the FMA Act of $28.304m from DIAC as a result of administrative arrangements on the transfer of the IPAO.