{"id":"F2020L00813","name":"Farm Household Support (Relief Payment) Minister’s Rules 2020","slug":"farm-household-support-relief-payment-minister-s-rules-2020","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440530,"registerId":"F2020L00813-fast-fetch-1775956125157","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Farm Household Support (Relief Payment) Minister’s Rules 2020","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFarm Household Support (Relief Payment) Minister’s Rules 2020\n\nI, David Littleproud, Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, make the following rules.\n\nDated 19 June 2020\n\nDavid Littleproud\n\nMinister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nContents\n\n1 Name\n\n2 Commencement\n\n3 Authority\n\n4 Definitions\n\n5 Qualification for relief payment\n\n6 Amount of relief payment\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Farm Household Support (Relief Payment) Minister’s Rules 2020.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered. 30 June 2020\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the Farm Household Support Act 2014.\n\n4  Definitions\n\nNote: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:\n\n(a) farm household allowance;\n\n(b) relief payment.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nAct means the Farm Household Support Act 2014.\n\n5  Qualification for relief payment\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 89E(2) of the Act, the circumstance that:\n\n (a) 1,460 days of farm household allowance have been payable to a person before 1 October 2020; and\n\n (b) the person is not qualified for a relief payment under subsection 89E(1) of the Act;\n\nis prescribed in relation to the person.\n\n6  Amount of relief payment\n\n  For the purposes of subsection 89F(2) of the Act, the following amount is prescribed for a relief payment under subsection 89E(2) of the Act for a person for the circumstance prescribed by section 5 of this instrument:\n\n (a) if the person’s rate of farm household allowance on the 1,460th day that farm household allowance was payable to the person was calculated by reference to the person being a member of a couple—$6,500;\n\n (b) otherwise—$7,500.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument remains tightly scoped to its original purpose: prescribing specific eligibility criteria and payment amounts for relief payments under the Farm Household Support Act 2014. It does not expand beyond the administrative function of giving effect to the parent Act's relief payment framework."},"complexity_factors":["Very short instrument: only 6 sections spanning 2 substantive provisions","Minimal defined terms: only 1 definition ('Act'), with others incorporated by reference from parent Act","Simple conditional structure: single eligibility trigger (1,460 days before fixed date) with binary payment calculation (couple vs single)","No nested exceptions or complex cross-referencing beyond basic references to parent Act sections","Straightforward commencement table with single commencement date"],"plain_english_summary":"This law provides a one-off cash relief payment for farmers who exhausted the four‑year Farm Household Allowance (1,460 days) before 1 October 2020 and who aren’t eligible for the standard relief payment. Eligible recipients receive $7,500 if single at the 1,460‑day cutoff or $6,500 if part of a couple. It gives a final lump sum to farming families who faced prolonged hardship and outlived the usual income‑support time limit."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":true,"description":"This instrument expands who can receive a relief payment under the Act by prescribing that persons with 1,460 days of Farm Household Allowance payable before 1 October 2020 who were not eligible under subsection 89E(1) are nonetheless eligible (section 5), and it prescribes the relief amounts for those persons ($6,500 for those treated as a couple on the 1,460th day; $7,500 otherwise) (section 6)."},"complexity_factors":["Very short, focused instrument (two operative provisions) with limited substantive detail.","Depends on interaction with the Farm Household Support Act, specifically subsections 89E(1)/(2) and 89F(2), requiring cross‑reference to the Act to understand full effect.","Eligibility hinges on proving a historical condition (1,460 days of allowance payable before 1 Oct 2020), which creates administrative verification work and potential edge‑date disputes (section 5).","Payment rate depends on the person’s assessed couple status on the 1,460th day, requiring retrospective relationship status assessment (section 6(a)).","Fixed, modest payment amounts simplify calculation but create a fiscal liability and a need to reconcile with any other payments under the Act (section 6).","Limited delegated discretion in the instrument itself; implementation details and evidence standards are left to the administering department and the Act."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument prescribes a specific extra qualification and fixed amounts for a one‑off Farm Household Support relief payment. It makes people who had 1,460 days of Farm Household Allowance payable before 1 October 2020—but who did not qualify under subsection 89E(1) of the Act—eligible, and sets payments at $6,500 if they were assessed as a couple on their 1,460th day, or $7,500 otherwise. The Commonwealth (department administering the Act) pays and administers the scheme under the Farm Household Support Act 2014."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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