{"id":"F2023L00881","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2022-23 Payment No. 13) Determination 2023","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-13-determination-2023","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441977,"registerId":"F2023L00881-fast-fetch-1775957125862","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2022-23 Payment No. 13) Determination 2023","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 Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\nFederal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2022-23 Payment No. 13) Determination 2023\n\nI, Stephen Jones, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, make the following determination.\n\nDated   27 June 2023\n\n \n\nStephen Jones\n\nAssistant Treasurer\n\nMinister for Financial Services\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\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2022-23 Payment No. 13) Determination 2023.\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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 June 2023.\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 | $2,330,568,924.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $668,509,519.84 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $2,104,894,077.67 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $387,276,649.23 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $287,079,997.91 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $85,326,225.82 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $55,692,641.33 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $196,603,013.05 |\n| 9 | Total | $6,115,951,048.85 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination does not change the scope of Commonwealth financial relations; it simply specifies amounts to be paid to States and Territories under the existing authority of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (see section 3 and section 5). It does not create new obligations or alter program rules, which remain governed by the Act and the relevant national partnership agreements."},"complexity_factors":["Procedural, single-purpose instrument: lists fixed payment amounts (section 5).","Clear statutory authority: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (section 3 and Part 2 Note 1).","Commencement is immediate on registration, reducing timing ambiguity (section 2).","No substantive conditions or program rules included here — relies on underlying national partnership agreements and the Act for obligations (section 5, Part 2 Note 2).","Large aggregate monetary values require accurate appropriation and disbursement processes and fiscal accounting.","Limited administrative discretion in this instrument itself; implementation complexity depends on separate agreements and agency processes.","Low legal ambiguity: mechanistic payment schedule reduces interpretive risk."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument directs the Commonwealth to pay specified national partnership grant amounts to each State and Territory totalling $6,115,951,048.85, with payment proposed in June 2023. It is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 and commences on registration.\n\nThe determination transfers funds from the Commonwealth to State and Territory budgets for national-partnership purposes; it does not itself set program rules or conditions, so administrative and compliance obligations depend on the underlying agreements and the Act."},"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 — it determines specific payment amounts for National Partnership Payments. There is no scope creep; it is a routine, periodic determination that matches the original legislative purpose of facilitating federal financial assistance to states."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply references the parent Act)","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single purpose: a table of payment amounts with no substantive policy conditions attached in this instrument","Essentially a ministerial cheque-signing mechanism in legislative form"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Australian Government to pay $6,115,951,048.85 to states and territories as National Partnership Payments for 2022–23, unlocking federal grants agreed with each jurisdiction and allocating the bulk to New South Wales and Queensland, with smaller shares to Victoria, WA, SA, NT, Tasmania and the ACT.\n\nThose payments fund major state services—hospitals, schools, infrastructure and disaster recovery—and are the legal mechanism that releases the money. Made by Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones on 27 June 2023 under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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