{"id":"F2025L00374","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2024-25 Payment No. 9) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442787,"registerId":"F2025L00374-fast-fetch-1775957725158","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. 9) Determination 2025","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFederal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2024-25 Payment No. 9) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated   14 March 2025\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\n \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. 9) Determination 2025.\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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 March 2025.\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 | $55,569,869.30 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,782,219.43 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $59,352,088.73 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the legal scope or framework of general purpose financial assistance under the Act. It only determines the amounts and timing for 2024–25 Payment No. 9 (s5, Note 2), leaving eligibility, purposes of GPFA and the underlying Act unchanged."},"complexity_factors":["Routine statutory instrument that merely sets payment amounts under the Federal Financial Relations Act (low legal novelty)","Very small number of non‑zero recipients (WA and ACT) and fixed numeric amounts reduce calculation complexity","References the Act for definitions and authority, requiring cross‑reference but not new rules (s3, s4)","Immediate commencement on registration creates simple operational timing (Commencement table)","Payment timing is specified but implementation relies on standard treasury administrative processes (Note 2)","No new eligibility tests or discretionary criteria are introduced; limited policy discretion exercised in a single decision (s5)"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act, fixes amounts of general purpose financial assistance for 2024–25 Payment No. 9. It directs Commonwealth grants of $55,569,869.30 to Western Australia and $3,782,219.43 to the Australian Capital Territory, totalling $59,352,088.73, with payment proposed in March 2025 (s3, s5, Note 2). The Assistant Minister decides the payments; states receive untied funds for their budgets, while administrative and compliance tasks remain with Commonwealth and state treasuries."},"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":"This instrument performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 — making specific determinations of general purpose financial assistance payments to states and territories. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument: only 5 substantive sections","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent Act)","Single operative provision (section 5) containing a straightforward payment table","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority and commencement provisions","Purpose is purely administrative: executing a payment already authorised by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises Payment No. 9 for 2024–25, directing $55.57 million in untied general purpose financial assistance to Western Australia and $3.78 million to the Australian Capital Territory under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.  \n\nThese fixed, one-off instalments increase the recipients’ discretionary budgets for services like hospitals, schools and infrastructure; no other states or territories receive funding under this specific payment."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2024-25-payment-no-9-determination-/documents"}}