{"id":"F2021L00101","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2020-21 Payment No. 10) Determination 2021","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440757,"registerId":"F2021L00101-fast-fetch-1775956281662","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2020-21 Payment No. 10) Determination 2021","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\ntitle: NPP Determination 8 February 2021\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2020-21 Payment No. 10) Determination 2021\n\nI, Michael Sukkar, Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing, make the following determination.\n\nDated 2 February 2021\n\n \n\nMichael Sukkar\n\nAssistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing\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 national partnership payments 2\n\n5  Determination of national partnership payments\n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2020-21 Payment No. 10) Determination 2021.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 national partnership payments\n\n \n\nNote 1: A determination in this Part is made under subsection 16(1) of the Act.\n\nNote 2: A payment of the amounts determined in this Part is proposed to be made in February 2021.\n\n5  Determination of national partnership payments\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 financial assistance to that State as specified in subsection 16(1) of the Act.\n\n \n\n| Item | State | Determined amount of national partnership payments |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | New South Wales | $68,740,494.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $41,688,400.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $164,972,009.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $91,119,487.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $32,485,686.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $5,827,793.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $475,000.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $36,587,288.93 |\n| 9 | Total | $441,896,157.93 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"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":"The legislation performs exactly the function intended: making a specific determination of national partnership payment amounts under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the original purpose of the parent Act."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent Act)","No cross-references except to the enabling Act (Federal Financial Relations Act 2009)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table allocating fixed dollar amounts","No subsections with multiple paragraphs or complex numbering","Essentially a ministerial payment instruction with legislative formality"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Australian Government to pay about $442 million in national partnership payments to states and territories in February 2021, unlocking Commonwealth grants for state-delivered services and projects. It allocates the largest shares to Queensland and Western Australia, with New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, the Northern Territory, Tasmania and the ACT receiving the remainder — part of recurring federal–state funding arrangements for the 2020–21 year."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the statutory scope of federal financial relations. It merely determines the amounts to be paid as grants to each State and Territory under subsection 16(1) of the Act (Part 2, section 5) and sets commencement and payment timing; no expansion or narrowing of the Act’s substantive scope is indicated."},"complexity_factors":["Simple monetary schedule specifying exact amounts by State and a total (Part 2, section 5 and table).","Made under clear statutory authority—Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Part 1, section 3).","Commencement and effective date are straightforward (Part 1, section 2).","Payment timing is stated (Part 2, Note 2: proposed payment in February 2021).","No new eligibility criteria, conditions, reporting obligations or procedural rules set out in the instrument (absence of such provisions in the text increases operational simplicity).","Instrument executed by named Minister (header), showing ministerial exercise of delegated power under subsection 16(1) of the Act."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument fixes one‑off national partnership payments to each State and Territory under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, listing amounts that total $441,896,157.93 and are proposed to be paid in February 2021. It affects state and territory treasuries as recipients and formalises the Assistant Treasurer’s allocation of those specified grant amounts."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-10-determination-2021/documents"}}