{"id":"F2020L01525","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2020-21 Payment No. 8) Determination 2020","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":440681,"registerId":"F2020L01525-fast-fetch-1775956234435","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. 8) Determination 2020","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\ntitle: NPP Determination\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. 8) Determination 2020\n\nI, Michael Sukkar, Minister for Housing and Assistant Treasurer, make the following determination.\n\nDated 30 November 2020\n\n \n\nMichael Sukkar\n\nMinister for Housing and Assistant 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 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. 8) Determination 2020.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 December 2020.\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 | $172,056,036.20 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $126,968,235.55 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $303,218,948.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $102,567,272.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $23,850,983.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $18,272,392.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $797,753.24 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $17,111,304.00 |\n| 9 | Total | $764,842,923.99 |\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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not change the scope of recipients or create new conditions; it simply specifies the amounts to be paid to each State/Territory under the existing grant power (subsection 16(1) of the Act). Authority is cited as the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3) and the amounts are listed in s5; no expansion or contraction of covered persons or purposes is provided."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow substantive scope: lists monetary amounts for each State/Territory rather than creating new rights or regulatory regimes (s5).","Simple legal basis: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Authority, s3).","Fixed numeric data: complexity confined to arithmetic/accounting and budget classification rather than legal interpretation (s5 table).","Commencement mechanics are standard (registration-based commencement clause, s2).","Cross-reference to subsection 16(1) of the Act ties this instrument to broader grant framework but does not add eligibility or reporting rules (s5, Part 2 note).","Low administrative discretion: Minister determines amounts; instrument records determinations rather than delegating rule-making.","Potential implementation tasks are administrative (payment timing, ledger entries) rather than legal compliance by recipients (Part 2 note)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument, made under the Federal Financial Relations Act, sets fixed national partnership payment amounts to each State and Territory and a total; payments are proposed for December 2020 (Part 2 note, s5). \n\nIt affects the Commonwealth's budget outflow: the Commonwealth pays the listed sums; States receive them as grants under subsection 16(1) of the Act. The Minister makes the determination; there is minimal administrative discretion and no new compliance obligations for recipients (s3, s5)."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 — authorising specific National Partnership Payments to states. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (approximately 1.5 pages of substantive content)","Only 4 defined terms, all straightforward (the Act, plus standard legislative machinery)","No nested exceptions or conditional logic — just a simple table of amounts","Single operative provision (section 5) with a basic tabular structure","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act","Purpose is purely administrative: authorising specific payment amounts already agreed elsewhere"],"plain_english_summary":"This ministerial determination authorises the Commonwealth to pay more than $764 million in National Partnership Payments to Australian states and territories, with specific amounts allocated to each jurisdiction. It affects state and territory governments (the recipients), taxpayers funding the transfers, and people who rely on state-delivered services, and forms part of ongoing federal-state funding arrangements for 2020–21."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2020-21-payment-no-8-determination-2020/documents"}}