{"id":"F2022L00102","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2021-22 Payment No. 9) Determination 2022","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441196,"registerId":"F2022L00102-fast-fetch-1775956556929","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. 9) Determination 2022","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. 9) Determination 2022\n\nI, Michael Sukkar, Assistant Treasurer, Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness, Social and Community Housing, make the following determination.\n\nDated 1 February 2022\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. 9) Determination 2022.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 2022.\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 | $116,361,989.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $80,307,266.99 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $265,515,302.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $144,688,523.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $19,292,339.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $28,558,075.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $8,892,500.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $30,789,880.13 |\n| 9 | Total | $694,405,875.12 |\n\n\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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the scope of the underlying national partnerships; it merely determines the amounts to be paid to each State and Territory under subsection 16(1) of the Act and specifies timing. It does not amend eligibility, conditions, or policy in the source text."},"complexity_factors":["Single-purpose instrument: a table of determined payment amounts to jurisdictions (Part 2, section 5).","Clear statutory authority: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (Part 1, section 3 and Part 2 Note 1 referencing subsection 16(1)).","Minimal discretionary content: no operative rules, conditions or eligibility criteria are set—only monetary allocations.","Commencement and formalities present but routine (Part 1, section 2).","Precision of monetary figures and total require accurate financial administration.","Low compliance burden for recipients; primary effect is administrative (payment and receipt)."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination directs the Commonwealth to pay specified national partnership grant amounts to each State and Territory for 2021–22, listing exact dollar sums and a total of $694,405,875.12. Payments are proposed to be made in February 2022.\n\nMade under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, it sets the legal basis, recipient jurisdictions and timing for those Commonwealth disbursements; it affects Commonwealth outlays and State/Territory receipts but does not itself change eligibility rules or program conditions."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a routine administrative determination made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It performs exactly the function intended by that Act: authorising specific national partnership payments to states. There is no scope creep — it is a standard, time-limited payment mechanism."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent legislation)","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a straightforward payment table","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references to other complex provisions","Purpose-built, time-limited instrument with no ongoing regulatory obligations"],"plain_english_summary":"Ministerial determination authorises the Commonwealth to pay $694.4 million to states and territories as a national partnership payment in February 2022 for 2021–22. It funds state-run services; Queensland receives the largest share ($265.5m), followed by WA ($144.7m), NSW ($116.4m), Victoria ($80.3m), Tasmania ($28.6m), NT ($30.8m), SA ($19.3m) and the ACT ($8.9m). The instrument simply authorises the payment; the specific program purpose is set in the related national partnership agreement."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2021-22-payment-no-9-determination-2022/documents"}}