{"id":"F2022L00043","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2021-22 Payment No. 7) Determination 2022","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441171,"registerId":"F2022L00043-fast-fetch-1775956537999","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. 7) Determination 2022","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. 7) Determination 2022\n\nI, Michael Sukkar, Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing, make the following determination.\n\nDated 18 January 2022\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. 7) Determination 2022.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 January 2022.\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 | $111,702,008.28 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,475,027.71 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $115,177,035.99 |\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 function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: making specific determinations of general purpose financial assistance amounts. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument: only 5 substantive sections","Zero defined terms in section 4 (definitions section merely references the parent Act)","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 explanatory material embedded in the text"],"plain_english_summary":"Authorises a single untied federal payment in January 2022 totaling $115,177,035.99, directing $111,702,008.28 to Western Australia and $3,475,027.71 to the Australian Capital Territory; no other states receive funds.\n\nIt’s a horizontal fiscal equalisation adjustment — a technical Commonwealth disbursement that alters the 2021–22 funding received by WA and the ACT and is executed by the federal Treasury."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not alter the statutory scope of general purpose financial assistance under the Federal Financial Relations Act; it only specifies payment amounts for a particular 2021–22 payment (s5) and is made under the Act's existing authority (s3)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, single-purpose instrument: specifies amounts for one payment round (s5)","Numeric schedule in a simple table reduces interpretive ambiguity (s5)","Made under existing statutory framework; definitions and authority referenced to the Act (s3, s4, Note 1)","Commencement mechanics are standard (registration) rather than phased or conditional (s2)","No new regulatory duties, tests, or formulae embedded — limited administrative implementation"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets the Commonwealth grants of general purpose financial assistance to States for Payment No. 7 of 2021–22, specifying cash amounts to be paid (see s5 table). It was made by the Assistant Treasurer under the Federal Financial Relations Act (s3; Note 1) and commences on registration (s2).\n\nIt affects State and Territory governments as recipients and results in transfers: Western Australia $111,702,008.28, Australian Capital Territory $3,475,027.71, others $0; total $115,177,035.99 (s5). Administrative compliance follows the Act's definitions (s4)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-/documents"}}