{"id":"F2025L01518","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2024-25) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":443071,"registerId":"F2025L01518-fast-fetch-1775957977548","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2024-25) 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 of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2024‑25) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated  5 December 2025\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh\n\nAssistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury\n\nParliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer\n\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\nPart2 —Determination of national health reform payments for 2024‑25\n\n5 National health reform payments for 2024‑25\n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Health Reform Payments for 2024‑25) 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 The day after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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: Expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 as in force from time to time—see paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nthe Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\nPart 2—Determination of national health reform payments for 2024‑25\n\n5  National health reform payments for 2024‑25\n\n  For the purposes of section 15A of the Act, each item of the following table specifies an amount that is to be paid to the State specified in the item, for the 2024‑25 payment year, for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance for the purpose of expenditure in accordance with the National Health Reform Agreement:\n\n \n\n| Item | For this State: | The amount of financial assistance for the 2024‑25 payment year is: |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | New South Wales | $8,905,349,054.06 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $7,304,026,903.31 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $7,077,175,887.38 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $3,254,220,421.69 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $2,045,790,002.47 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $661,157,371.81 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $544,099,226.66 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $422,921,858.53 |\n|  | Total | $30,214,740,725.91 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change who is covered by the National Health Reform Agreement or introduce new policy duties; it only determines the specific Commonwealth payment amounts and commencement for the 2024‑25 payment year (see section 5)."},"complexity_factors":["Straightforward legal form: short instrument that simply specifies payment amounts (section 5).","Clear authority: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (section 3), limiting legal complexity.","Fixed monetary schedule: precise, high‑precision amounts for eight jurisdictions and a total, requiring exact disbursement.","Limited discretion: no new eligibility rules or conditions in the instrument—implementation is administrative (sections 4–5).","Operational dependence: administrative payment, reconciling with NHRA reporting and Commonwealth appropriation processes creates modest implementation complexity."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, fixes the Commonwealth grant amounts to each Australian state and territory for the 2024‑25 National Health Reform Agreement, totalling $30,214,740,725.91 (see section 5).  \n\nPractically, it requires the Commonwealth to pay the listed sums to states and territories, affecting federal and state budgets and the funding available for public hospital services; the instrument specifies amounts and commencement but does not add new conditions beyond the Agreement (see sections 2–5)."},"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"},"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 annual determinations of specific payment amounts to states for health funding. The scope remains tightly constrained to the statutory purpose of authorising these specific grants."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative sections","No defined terms in the instrument itself (relies entirely on definitions in the parent Act)","Single substantive provision (section 5) containing only a table of amounts","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond the basic authority provision","No nested structures or operative complexity"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Commonwealth to pay just over $30 billion in conditional grants to states and territories for 2024–25 under the National Health Reform Agreement, allocating specified amounts to each jurisdiction to fund public hospitals and health services. Made by Assistant Minister Dr Andrew Leigh under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-health-reform-payments-for-2024-25-determination-2025/documents"}}