{"id":"F2021L01704","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2021-22 Payment No. 7) Determination 2021","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441094,"registerId":"F2021L01704-fast-fetch-1775956500321","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2021-22 Payment No. 7) Determination 2021","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![Commonwealth of Australia Crest](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2021-22 Payment No. 7) 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   1 December 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—2021-22 Payment No. 7) 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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 December 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 | $3,481,004,570.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $126,018,703.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $160,060,686.84 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $344,860,960.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $69,480,820.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $12,104,871.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,542,285.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $59,098,084.28 |\n| 9 | Total | $4,256,170,980.12 |\n\n\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"},"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 payment amounts to states. It has not expanded beyond this narrow administrative purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions across 2 Parts","Zero defined terms in the instrument itself (relies entirely on definitions from the parent Act)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority citations","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a simple table with 8 data rows","No amendments, schedules, or explanatory material embedded in the text","Straightforward administrative determination with no discretionary elements or decision-making criteria"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Assistant Treasurer to approve $4.25 billion in national partnership payments—Commonwealth grants—to Australia’s states and territories under the Federal Financial Relations framework. \n\nMost funds go to New South Wales (~$3.48b), with smaller amounts to WA, Qld, Vic, SA, NT, Tas and the ACT. It’s a payment decision (transferring agreed funding for state‑delivered projects), not a new policy choice."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination merely specifies the amounts payable to each State and Territory under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 and the timing (proposed for December 2021). It does not amend the Act, alter eligibility, create new programs, impose conditions on recipients, or expand/restrict the legal scope of federal financial relations; it is a transactional allocation only."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose statutory instrument: only determines payment amounts","Simple tabular listing of nine monetary items and a total","Cross-reference to the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (subsection 16(1))","No conditional, discretionary or ongoing obligations set out in the instrument","Includes formal commencement and definitions provisions required by statute","Amounts given to the cent with no formulae or indexing rules"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets the December 2021 national partnership payment amounts the Commonwealth will grant to each State and Territory under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It lists nine line items with precise dollar figures totalling $4,256,170,980.12, making those funds payable in December 2021 and affecting state and territory budgets as recipients and the Commonwealth as payer."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-7-determination-2021/documents"}}