{"id":"F2024L00084","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2023-24 Payment No. 7) Determination 2024","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-7-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442253,"registerId":"F2024L00084-fast-fetch-1775957297453","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. 7) Determination 2024","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. 7) Determination 2024\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated   16 January 2024\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\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. 7) Determination 2024.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 2024.\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 | $68,174,024.86 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,658,876.85 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $71,832,901.71 |\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 general purpose financial assistance; it implements a single payment tranche by specifying amounts to particular States/Territories under the existing authority (Part 2 Note 1 and cl.5). It does not amend eligibility, purpose, or the underlying Act; it only fixes monetary amounts and timing (cl.5; Part 2 Note 2)."},"complexity_factors":["Simple, single-purpose table of amounts (cl.5) rather than multi-part regulatory rules;","Limited number of affected recipients: amounts specified only for WA and ACT, all others shown as $- (cl.5 table);","Clear legal authority: instrument made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (cl.3) and uses the Act’s definitions (cl.4);","Fixed monetary entries reduce interpretive discretion and compliance ambiguity (cl.5 table);","Commencement is straightforward — instrument commences on registration (cl.2);","Timing for payment is stated as proposed January 2024 (Part 2 Note 2), so implementation scheduling is brief and discrete;"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument fixes one tranche of general purpose financial assistance payments to States and Territories. It allocates $68,174,024.86 to Western Australia and $3,658,876.85 to the Australian Capital Territory (total $71,832,901.71); all other jurisdictions receive no amount in this payment. Made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, it authorises the specified grants and sets the proposed payment timing (January 2024)."},"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 to states. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive sections across 2 Parts","Minimal defined terms: only 'the Act' is explicitly defined; otherwise relies on external definitions from the parent Act","No conditional logic or exceptions — just a straightforward table of amounts","No cross-references beyond a single reference to the enabling Act (Federal Financial Relations Act 2009)","Simple tabular structure for the operative provision (section 5)","No amendments, schedules, or transitional provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Commonwealth to pay $68.17 million to Western Australia and $3.66 million to the Australian Capital Territory (total $71.83 million) as general-purpose financial assistance for 2023–24. It affects WA and the ACT as recipients, lists other jurisdictions as receiving $0, and matters because it’s an untied Commonwealth payment in the ongoing fiscal equalisation/GST-related funding process."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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