{"id":"F2024L00352","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2023-24 Payment No. 9) Determination 2024","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2023-24-payment-no-9-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442331,"registerId":"F2024L00352-fast-fetch-1775957364568","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. 9) 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. 9) Determination 2024\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     18 March 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\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. 9) 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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 March 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 | $51,544,792.86 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,658,876.85 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $55,203,669.71 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"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 payments to states. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions across 2 Parts","Minimal defined terms: only 'the Act' is explicitly defined; otherwise relies on inherited definitions from the parent Act","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single substantive operation: a table allocating specific dollar amounts to jurisdictions","Straightforward legislative authority (subsection 9(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009)","No cross-references beyond the empowering Act and standard Legislation Act provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises Payment No. 9 of $55.2 million in general-purpose financial assistance for 2023–24, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act by the Assistant Minister. \n\nIt directs $51.5 million to Western Australia and $3.7 million to the Australian Capital Territory (all other jurisdictions receive $0 this round). These untied grants support states’ services as part of horizontal fiscal equalisation."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the statutory scope of general purpose financial assistance under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It only determines the amounts to be paid for 2023–24 Payment No.9 to the specified jurisdictions (see section 5) and notes the authority for the determination (section 3; Part 2, Note 1). No definitions or eligibility rules are altered; the measure confines itself to specifying payment amounts and commencement."},"complexity_factors":["Simple legal form: a statutory determination with a single operative table of payments (section 5).","Clear statutory authority: instrument made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (section 3) and the determination is made under subsection 9(1) of that Act (Part 2, Note 1).","Minimal contingency: specified fixed amounts for two jurisdictions and a total; no formulas, conditions or allocations to other bodies (section 5).","Definitions tie to the parent Act rather than creating new technical terms (section 4), reducing interpretive complexity but increasing reliance on the Act for meaning.","Routine administrative mechanics: commencement rule (section 2) and payment timing note (Part 2, Note 2) govern implementation rather than policy discretion.","Low compliance burden and discretion: instrument directs payments rather than imposing reporting or behavioural requirements on recipients (section 5)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets the 2023–24 Payment No.9 amounts of general purpose financial assistance. It allocates $51,544,792.86 to Western Australia and $3,658,876.85 to the Australian Capital Territory, totalling $55,203,669.71. Made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, it authorises Commonwealth grants to those jurisdictions; the Commonwealth pays the amounts and the named state/territory governments receive them, affecting their cash flows and budget reporting."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. 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