{"id":"F2026L00260","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 9) Determination 2026","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":443195,"registerId":"F2026L00260-fast-fetch-1775958099516","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—2025-26 Payment No. 9) Determination 2026","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—2025-26 Payment No. 9) Determination 2026\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     16 March 2026\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh  Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury\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—2025-26 Payment No. 9) Determination 2026.\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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 2026.\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 | $30,883,482.45 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,861,646.04 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $34,745,128.49 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument applies existing statutory power to allocate a single scheduled general-purpose payment (Part 2, s5) and does not alter the legal scope or categories of Commonwealth financial assistance under the Act. It records amounts and timing but does not create new powers, conditions or beneficiary classes."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose administrative instrument: specifies a simple table of payments (Part 2, s5).","Limited discretion: made under subsection 9(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Part 2 notes), so action is an exercise of statutorily conferred power rather than rulemaking of broad scope.","Cross-references for meaning: relies on the Act and the Legislation Act for definitions and expression meanings (s4, Legislation Act note), requiring readers to consult other statutes for full interpretation.","Immediate commencement on registration (s2) and proposed payment timing in March 2026 (Part 2 note) create tight operational deadlines for payment processing.","Sparse explanatory detail: instrument provides no reasons or allocation formula for why most jurisdictions are listed as $0, which may prompt external queries or require reference to other documents.","Low compliance burden: recipients simply receive specified grants; there are no additional conditions or reporting requirements in this instrument."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 sets the amounts of general-purpose financial assistance for the 2025–26 Payment No. 9 (payment proposed in March 2026). It lists amounts for each State and Territory: Western Australia $30,883,482.45, Australian Capital Territory $3,861,646.04; all other jurisdictions are $0; total $34,745,128.49.\n\nThe Assistant Minister makes the determination under subsection 9(1) of the Act; the Commonwealth will pay the listed amounts, affecting state and territory cash flows and budgets."},"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 payments to states and territories. The scope remains tightly confined to this single, specific payment."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive sections across 2 Parts","Zero defined terms in section 4 (just a reference to the parent Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority citation","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a straightforward table with fixed amounts","No amendments, schedules, or transitional provisions","Essentially a data entry exercise cast in legislative form"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises one instalment of general purpose federal assistance: $30.88 million to Western Australia and $3.86 million to the Australian Capital Territory. It affects those two jurisdictions (other states receive nothing under this payment) and is a routine administrative step in the Commonwealth’s ongoing revenue-sharing arrangements for 2025–26."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-9-determination-/documents"}}