{"id":"F2021L01818","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 6) Determination 2021","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441113,"registerId":"F2021L01818-fast-fetch-1775956509276","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. 6) Determination 2021","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\ntitle: MS21-003064 Att A - GRA Determination\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 6) 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  15 December 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. 6) 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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 December 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 | $103,480,896.49 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,475,027.71 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $106,955,924.20 |\n\n\n \n\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"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the narrow, technical function it was designed for: making a specific payment determination under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It has not expanded beyond its original purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions across 2 Parts","Zero defined terms in section 4 (merely incorporates definitions from parent Act by reference)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority citation","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a straightforward payment table","No amendments, schedules, or transitional provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises untied general-purpose financial assistance for 2021–22, assigning Western Australia $103,480,896.49 and the Australian Capital Territory $3,475,027.71, totalling $106,955,924.20. It affects those two governments (and indirectly their residents) by providing flexible Commonwealth funding. It’s the formal legal mechanism releasing Payment No. 6 in Australia’s federal financial relations, with other states receiving no payment in this round."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the statutory scope of the Federal Financial Relations Act or eligibility for payments. It exercises the Act’s delegated power to specify payment amounts for Payment No. 6 of 2021‑22, naming recipients and amounts (s5) and setting commencement (s2)."},"complexity_factors":["Straightforward numeric schedule limited to two non-zero state payments and a total (s5)","Made under clear statutory authority: Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Authority, s3)","Commencement tied to registration via a simple commencement table (s2)","Definitions are cross-referenced to the principal Act and the Legislation Act, reducing in-instrument definitional load (s4)","No allocation formula or explanation of how amounts were calculated provided in the instrument (s5), which raises transparency questions though not legal complexity","Administrative formality: ministerial signature and dated determination with fixed amounts — limited discretionary mechanics in the instrument itself"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument directs the Commonwealth to pay $103,480,896.49 to Western Australia and $3,475,027.71 to the Australian Capital Territory as general purpose financial assistance, totalling $106,955,924.20 (see s5). It is made by the Assistant Treasurer under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3) and commences on registration (s2); it specifies payment amounts only and does not itself change eligibility or the Act’s terms."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-6-determination-/documents"}}