{"id":"F2021L01574","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 5) Determination 2021","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441068,"registerId":"F2021L01574-fast-fetch-1775956483115","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 5) Determination 2021","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 of Australia Crest](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 5) Determination 2021\n\nI, Michael Sukkar, Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing, make the following determination.\n\nDated   17 November 2021\n\n \n\nMichael Sukkar\n\nAssistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing\n\n \n\n\n\n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name \n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\nPart 2—Determination of general purpose financial assistance 2\n\n5  Determination of general purpose financial assistance\n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 5) Determination 2021.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\n4  Definitions\n\nNote: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 as in force from time to time.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nthe Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\nPart 2—Determination of general purpose financial assistance\n\n \n\nNote 1: A determination in this Part is made under subsection 9(1) of the Act.\n\nNote 2: A payment of the amounts determined in this Part is proposed to be made in November 2021.\n\n5  Determination of general purpose financial assistance\n\n  Each item of the following table specifies an amount to be paid to the State mentioned in that item for the purpose of making a grant of general purpose financial assistance to that State.\n\n \n\n| Item | State | Determined amount of general purpose financial assistance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | New South Wales | $- |\n| 2 | Victoria | $- |\n| 3 | Queensland | $- |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $71,917,948.78 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,475,027.71 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $75,392,976.49 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"No. The instrument does not change the statutory scope of general purpose financial assistance; it implements a single payment allocation for 2021–22 (Payment No. 5) by specifying recipient amounts (cl. 5) under s9(1) of the Act (Part 2 Note 1) and commencing on registration (cl. 2)."},"complexity_factors":["Statutory basis: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Authority, cl. 3) and the determinations in Part 2 are made under subsection 9(1) of the Act (Part 2 Note 1).","Simple payment schedule: fixed per-jurisdiction amounts are set out in a single table (cl. 5 table).","Zero-amount entries: multiple jurisdictions are shown with \"$-\" rather than numeric amounts, functioning as nil allocations and requiring no calculation (cl. 5 table).","Commencement mechanics: the instrument commences on the day it is registered (cl. 2).","Single-period scope: this is a one-off payment determination for 2021–22 Payment No. 5 (title; Part 2 Note 2).","No allocation formula provided: the instrument specifies amounts but does not publish the method or supporting calculations (cl. 5 and Part 1 definitions).","Reliance on external definitions: expressions take their meaning from the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 as adopted by this instrument (cl. 4).","Operational requirement: creates an administrative obligation to make and record the proposed November 2021 payments (Part 2 Note 2)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, fixes amounts of general purpose financial assistance payable in November 2021: $71,917,948.78 to Western Australia and $3,475,027.71 to the Australian Capital Territory, with zero amounts for the other jurisdictions, totalling $75,392,976.49. It matters because it authorises the Commonwealth to transfer those specified sums under s9(1) of the Act, identifies recipients and amounts, and creates the administrative requirement to make and record the listed payments on commencement."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: making periodic determinations of general purpose financial assistance payments to states and territories. The scope is narrow and precisely aligned with the parent Act's purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive sections across 2 Parts","Only 1 defined term ('the Act')","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single straightforward purpose: authorising specific dollar amounts to specific recipients","No cross-references beyond basic authority and commencement provisions","Tabular format makes the operative provision (section 5) immediately readable"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Australian Government to pay general purpose financial assistance to Western Australia ($71.9 million) and the Australian Capital Territory ($3.5 million) for 2021–22; the other states receive no payment in this instalment.\n\nIt affects the Commonwealth, WA and the ACT (and ultimately their residents) and forms part of horizontal fiscal equalisation—periodic federal top‑up payments to help jurisdictions deliver comparable public services."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-5-determination-/documents"}}