{"id":"F2024L01015","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2024-25 Payment No. 2) Determination 2024","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442517,"registerId":"F2024L01015-fast-fetch-1775957492331","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—2024-25 Payment No. 2) Determination 2024","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFederal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2024-25 Payment No. 2) Determination 2024\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     15 August 2024\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh  Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury  Parliamentary 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—2024-25 Payment No. 2) 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 Immediately after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 August 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 | $75,064,225.94 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,782,219.43 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $78,846,445.37 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"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 periodic determinations of general purpose financial assistance amounts. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions","No defined terms beyond a single reference to 'the Act'","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act","Simple tabular format for the actual financial determination","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Straightforward administrative instrument with a single purpose: specifying dollar amounts for payment"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Australian Government to make the second 2024–25 general purpose financial assistance payment: $75,064,225.94 to Western Australia and $3,782,219.43 to the Australian Capital Territory, totalling $78,846,445.37. It activates the actual transfer under Australia’s horizontal fiscal equalisation system and directly affects WA and the ACT."},"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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination does not change the statutory scope or purpose of general purpose financial assistance under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It only sets the amounts and proposed timing for the 2024–25 Payment No. 2 (s3, s4, s5, Part 2 Note 2)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow substantive scope — instrument only specifies payment amounts for GPFA (s5).","Straightforward legal authority — made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3) and noted as a determination under subsection 9(1) of the Act (Part 2 Note 1).","Immediate commencement on registration simplifies timing and implementation (s2).","Precise monetary figures with cents increase administrative accuracy requirements (s5 table).","No conditions, eligibility changes, or procedural rules included; implementation limited to payment processing (s5).","Definitions adopt meanings from the Act via the Legislation Act cross-reference, creating reliance on external statutory definitions (s4).","Concentrated benefit pattern (only WA and ACT receive amounts) creates simple distributional effects to monitor (s5 table)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument fixes the Commonwealth's second 2024–25 instalment of general purpose financial assistance to States: it specifies exact payment amounts (Western Australia $75,064,225.94; Australian Capital Territory $3,782,219.43; others $0), totalling $78,846,445.37, with payment proposed in August 2024 (s5, Note 2). Made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 by the Assistant Minister, it mechanically determines who gets what and when, without setting new conditions or altering the statutory definition of the assistance (s3, s4, s5)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-2-determination-/documents"}}