{"id":"F2023L01694","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2023-24 Payment No. 6) Determination 2023","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442214,"registerId":"F2023L01694-fast-fetch-1775957273848","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. 6) 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. 6) Determination 2023\n\nI, Stephen Jones, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, make the following determination.\n\nDated   15 December 2023\n\n \n\nStephen Jones\n\nAssistant Treasurer\n\nMinister for Financial Services\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. 6) 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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 December 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 | $58,208,347.52 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,658,876.85 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $61,867,224.37 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the statutory scope of federal financial relations; it specifies particular payment amounts under subsection 9(1) of the Act (Part 2 note 1; s5) and does not amend the Act or create new entitlement categories. It performs a one‑off allocation and schedules payment timing (s2; Part 2 note 2). Any interpretive detail relies on existing definitions in the Act and the Legislation Act (s4)."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose payment schedule limited to two States (Western Australia and Australian Capital Territory) and a total amount — table in s5.","Instrument is an exercise of statutory power rather than rule‑making or amendment; authority cited in s3 (Federal Financial Relations Act 2009).","Commencement is straightforward: the instrument takes effect on registration (s2), reducing temporal ambiguity.","Definitions and interpretive meanings are imported from the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 and the Legislation Act 2003 (s4; para 13(1)(b) note), creating a dependency on external texts for full interpretation.","Timing note: payment is proposed for December 2023 (Part 2 note 2), indicating administrative scheduling rather than ongoing obligations.","No novel compliance rules, conditionality, or formulae set out in this instrument; amounts are fixed entries in the table (s5), which limits administrative discretion within this instrument."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination instructs the Commonwealth to pay $58,208,347.52 to Western Australia and $3,658,876.85 to the Australian Capital Territory as general purpose financial assistance for 2023–24 (total $61,867,224.37) (s5). It is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, takes effect on registration, and proposes payment in December 2023 (ss2–3, Part 2 note 2). The Commonwealth decides the amounts; the named States receive the funds."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation remains tightly scoped to its original purpose. It is a routine administrative determination making a specific payment under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, with no expansion beyond the Act's established framework for distributing general purpose financial assistance to states and territories."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative sections","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply 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 subordinate legislation or regulatory mechanisms","Purpose is purely administrative: executing a pre-calculated payment allocation"],"plain_english_summary":"The instrument authorises the Australian Government to pay $58.2 million to Western Australia and $3.7 million to the Australian Capital Territory as unconditional general purpose financial assistance (GST/untied grants) for 2023–24. It’s the sixth instalment (December 2023) under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, redistributing Commonwealth revenue to support comparable state services; other states receive no payment in this round."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-6-determination-/documents"}}