{"id":"F2023L00185","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2022-23 Payment No. 9) Determination 2023","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":441743,"registerId":"F2023L00185-fast-fetch-1775956968644","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. 9) Determination 2023","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 22.10.0\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. 9) Determination 2023\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated  28 February 2023\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh\n\nAssistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury\n\nParliamentary Secretary to the 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\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2022-23 Payment No. 9) 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The day this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 March 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 | $164,785,814.00 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $78,573,194.00 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $116,353,140.00 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $208,783,589.00 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $26,639,185.00 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $3,400,704.00 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $5,797,883.00 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $139,184,907.00 |\n| 9 | Total | $743,518,416.00 |\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"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 determinations of payment amounts to states and territories. It has not expanded beyond this narrow, technical purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 operative provisions","No defined terms beyond 'the Act' (which simply refers to 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","Essentially a ministerial cheque-signing instrument with legislative formality"],"plain_english_summary":"This bill authorises the Commonwealth to pay $743.5 million in National Partnership Payments to Australia’s states and territories for 2022–23 (the ninth such payment), enabling federal funding to flow to state-run services and projects. It matters because it legally permits transfers that support hospitals, schools, infrastructure and disaster recovery, affecting state/territory budgets, Australian taxpayers and citizens who rely on those services."},"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 or terms of the underlying national partnership arrangements; it simply determines the amounts for Payment No. 9 in 2022–23 under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (see Note 1 and s.5). It contains no amendments to program rules, eligibility, or conditions and rests on the Act as the authority (s.3)."},"complexity_factors":["Narrow purpose and form: the instrument only lists fixed payment amounts by State/Territory in the table at section 5 (s.5) — limited legislative content.","Delegated authority reliance: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s.3) and invokes subsection 16(1) as the legal basis (Note 1 referencing s.16(1)) — substantive rules may be in the parent Act.","Straightforward commencement: entire instrument commences on registration (s.2) — no staggered or conditional commencement provisions.","Timing statement but not detailed mechanics: payment timing is noted as proposed for March 2023 (Note 2) — actual payment mechanics and appropriations are handled administratively outside the instrument.","Absence of operational detail: no conditions, eligibility criteria, performance measures, reporting obligations, or offsets are included in this instrument — lowers statutory compliance burden but shifts implementation detail elsewhere.","Monetary and administrative dependency: the listed amounts create budgeting and cash‑management tasks for both Commonwealth (payer) and States/Territories (recipients), though those procedures are not prescribed here."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination directs the Commonwealth to pay specified lump sums to each State and Territory totalling $743,518,416 for 2022–23, under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. Payments are proposed to be made in March 2023. It affects State and Territory governments as grant recipients and the Commonwealth as payer by fixing the dollar amounts for budgeting and program delivery; it does not set new program conditions or eligibility rules."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2022-23-payment-no-9-determination-2023/documents"}}