{"id":"F2023L01397","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2023-24 Payment No. 4) Determination 2023","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442128,"registerId":"F2023L01397-fast-fetch-1775957222466","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—2023-24 Payment No. 4) Determination 2023","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\nFederal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2023-24 Payment No. 4) Determination 2023\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated  16 October 2023\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh\n\nAssistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury\n\nParliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer\n\n \n\n \n\n \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\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2023-24 Payment No. 4) Determination 2023.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 October 2023.\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 | $63,693,900.70 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,664,916.67 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $67,358,817.37 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the statutory scope of the general purpose financial assistance program. It implements a periodic payment determination under subsection 9(1) of the Act by fixing amounts for specified jurisdictions and records commencement and authority (see Note 1, section 5, section 2 and section 3). It does not alter eligibility criteria, payment rules or the underlying legal framework."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow, single-purpose instrument: specifies a table of fixed payment amounts only (section 5, table)","Legal authority is straightforward: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (section 3 and Note 1 referring to subsection 9(1))","Simple commencement mechanics: instrument commences on registration (section 2)","No formulas, conditions or allocation methodology included — amounts are stated as determinations (section 5)","Relies on external definitions in the Act rather than creating new statutory terms (section 4)","Administrative decision-maker is identified by signature (instrument header), implying limited executive discretion in this text"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, sets 2023–24 general purpose financial assistance amounts: $63,693,900.70 to Western Australia and $3,664,916.67 to the Australian Capital Territory, totalling $67,358,817.37. Payments are proposed for October 2023. The Commonwealth (via an Assistant Minister’s determination) authorises and will pay these grants; affected parties are the listed jurisdictions whose available 2023–24 funds are increased by the specified amounts. The instrument records commencement, authority and the fixed payment figures."},"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":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 amounts. It has not expanded beyond this narrow administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (only 5 substantive provisions)","Only 1 defined term ('the Act')","Simple tabular structure for payment amounts","No conditional logic or exceptions","No cross-references beyond basic authority provisions","Straightforward administrative determination with no policy discretion exercised in the text"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises a routine Payment No. 4 for 2023–24, releasing about $67.4 million in general purpose (untied) financial assistance—roughly $63.7m to Western Australia and $3.7m to the Australian Capital Territory. It’s part of the Commonwealth’s horizontal fiscal equalisation system, redistributing GST and related revenue to support state/territory service delivery; taxpayers fund the payments."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-4-determination-/documents"}}